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is a policy that would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement.

Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other measure that would accomplish so much to promote law and order' Milton Friedman

is a no-brainer. In a free society, it is none of the government's business what idea a man puts into his head; it should also be none of its business what drug he puts into his body.

Voltaire is supposed to have said: 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'9 But who will say today: 'I disapprove of what drug you take, but I will defend to the death your right to take it?' Yet it seems to me that the right to take things is more elementary than the right to say things; for taking things is less likely to harm others than saying them. In a free society, it is none of the government's business what idea a man puts into his head; it should also be none of its business what drug he puts into his body.

is a no-brainer. It is legal to burn the American flag in public, but it is illegal to smoke an American marijuana cigarette in private.

It is legal to bum the American flag in public, but it is il- legal to smoke an American marijuana cigarette in private.

is a screwy term. The state is in fact incapable of legalizing an act; it can only prohibit it by law, or leave it alone.

The state cannot legalize an act; it can only prohibit it by law, or leave it alone.

is advisable since making drugs illegal makes them more toxic, since those who operate in the shadows adulterate their product.

Making drugs legal does not make them more toxic, but making them illegal does, because the distributors of illegal drugs adulterate their product (and have no competitor who sells the same product in unadulterated form).

is advisable since prohibition makes certain behaviors more dangerous, as we would all readily agree that outlawing condoms would not stop people from engaging in illicit sexual acts.

Would outlawing condoms stop people from engaging in illicit sexual acts? Obviously not. Did outlawing hypodermic syringes and needles stop people from using il- licit drugs? No. The result: The single most important source for the transmission of AIDS in America today is the use of illegal syringes and needles.

is advisable. It is hypocrisy that while ingesting a prohibited drug is called 'drug abuse’ ingesting a prescribed drug is called 'chemotherapy.'

Ingesting a prohibited drug is called 'drug abuse'; ingesting a prescribed drug is called 'chemotherapy'.

is sensible --- The abuse of a thing is no argument against its use.

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