America’s most valuable blogger (which I’ve been saying for a while, but it is great to see much bigger bloggers than I agree), has a must-read post countering some of the worst anti-drug legalizations arguments out there.
It wrongly assumes that the all of the problems we associate with drugs–the bloody turf wars, the presence of particularly potent drugs like meth, the lengths to which dealers will go to get their premium, etc.–are the product of the drugs themselves, and not the product of them being prohibited. This chart helps slay that argument. When was the last time you heard about a Michelob deal gone bad?
Read the whole thing.
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…for keeping Mr. Balko’s blog, The Agitator, on the blogroll here. Go show him some love.
IFC or HBO called American Drug War: Last White Hope which was pretty broad in scope with some surprising commentary from people one would expect to support it. It also covered the idiocy of why authorities are so against “medical marijuana”. Pretty articulate film.
I think you might like it.