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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2019

This plea comes from the bottom of my heart. Every friend of freedom, and I know you are one, must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. A country in which shooting down unidentified planes "on suspicion" can be seriously considered as a drug-war tactic is not the kind of United States that either you or I want to hand on to future generations.

Milton Friedman, "An Open Letter to Bill Bennett" [1989]

HORNBERGER'S BLOG

December 13, 2019
Individual Responsibility in the Drug War
Among the fascinating aspects of America’s decades-long drug war is how drug-war proponents never take individual responsibility for the adverse consequences of their program. Instead, they inevitably say, “Judge us by our good intentions rather than by the actual consequences of our program.” Consider robberies, burglaries, thefts, and muggings. It is impossible to know how many of them are drug-war related ...
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