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is a disgrace in that it makes young people into criminals, denies people medicine, is responsible for thousands of deaths, and billions of dollars in lost taxable revenue.

There is no logical basis for the prohibition of marijuana. $7.7 billion is a lot of money, but that is one of the lesser evils. Our failure to successfully enforce these laws is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in Colombia. I haven't even included the harm to young people. It's absolutely disgraceful to think of picking up a 22-year-old for smoking pot. More disgraceful is the denial of marijuana for medical purposes. Milton Friedman

is a disgraceful program that puts government in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail.

Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral' Is that proper' I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons Milton Friedman

is a revolting policy that has turned the u.S. Into an armed camp with jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

Every friend of freedom 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. Milton Friedman

is a tool for enforcing new modes of discrimination and repression and for wreaking devastation upon african American communities.

Alexander argues that the War on Drugs has had a devastating impact on inner city African American communities, on a scale entirely out of proportion to the actual dimensions of criminal activity taking place within these communities. During the past three decades, the US prison population has exploded from 300,000 to more than two million, with the majority of the increase due to drug convictions.[8] This has led to the US having the world's highest incarceration rate. The US incarceration rate is eight times that of Germany, a comparatively developed large democracy.[9] Alexander claims that the US is unparalleled in the world in focusing enforcement of federal drug laws on racial and ethnic minorities. In the capital city of Washington, D.C. three out of four young African American males are expected to serve time in prison.[10] While studies show that quantitatively Americans of different races consume illegal drugs at similar rates,[11][verification needed] in some states black men have been sent to prison on drug charges at rates twenty to fifty times those of white men.[12] The proportion of African American men with some sort of criminal record approaches 80% in some major US cities, and they become marginalized, part of what Alexander calls 'a growing and permanent undercaste.'[13][14] (wikipedia),

is a violation of the moral rights of adults who want to use drugs.

Douglas Husak argues that the 'war on drugs' violates the moral rights of adults who want to use drugs for pleasure and that criminal laws against such use are .

is a violation to our constitutional rights insofar as drugs are property and rights toward property is a constitutionally guaranteed inalienable right.

According to the constitution, every American citizen shall have 'the inalienable right to life, liberty, and property, the first two elements resting squarely on the last (szasz:1 ), thus, 'because both our bodies and drugs are types of property, producing, trading in, and using drugs are property rights, and drug prohibitions constitution a deprivation of basic constitutional rights' (szasz 2).

is morally wrongheaded in that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else.

It's a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else. Most of the arrests for drugs are for possession by casual users. Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral' Is that proper' I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons.

is responsible for the invention of crack, the creation of addicts, and narco-terrorism in south America.

Had drugs been decriminalized, crack would never have been invented and there would today be fewer addicts. . . The ghettos would not be drug-and-crime-infested no-man's lands. . . Colombia, Bolivia and Peru would not be suffering from narco-terror, and we would not be distorting our foreign policy because of it. Milton Friedman

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