25 years ago in reason.

• Position: Citings - Milton Friedman and Robert W. Poole Jr. - Brief article

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"Legalize all drugs.... Legalizing drugs would reduce enormously the number of victims of drug use who are not addicts: people who are mugged, people who are corrupted, the reduction of law and order because of the corruption of law enforcement, and the allocation of a very large fraction of law enforcement resources to this one particular activity. There are millions of people who are not addicts who are being harmed by the present system."

--Milton Friedman, "America After Prohibition"

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