NORML Update: Harvard Economist Jeffrey Miron on Legalizing Drugs

www.norml.org - On Thursday, June 16th, the CATO Institute in Washington, DC hosted a debte entitled - RESOLVED: America Should Legalize Drugs between Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron and Dr. Dupont. This NORML Update features excerpts from Miron's opening statements.

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[dnmontgomery]

where can one find the whole debate?

[NatlNORML]

@dnmontgomery We'll be posting more video over the next week, including the comments from his opposition.

[Sache0190]

How can ANY Government ignore these facts?? Question of the millenium

[BiG420ToMaTo420BuDs]

Legalize herion marijuana and pharmaceuticals and sell them to ppl over 18 and tax them and there's 250 billion a year easy maybe closer to a trillion

[BiG420ToMaTo420BuDs]

99% of "drugs" as you call them are medicines of some form or another and people demonize them by calling them the D word DRUGS

[yesak789]

The DOD can't account for over 2 TRILL$ WTF We as CITIZENS should just begin growing it like JONNY HEMPSEED I mean it is like forbidding the apple because EVE was seduced by SATAN SO NOBODY is allowed to possess any apple plant,seeds! What authority does the EXECUTIVE branch have to make a plant illegal! Wheres the JUDICIAL and the LEGISLATIVE BRANCHES ? It is time NOW not NWO to wake up and stop all this WASTE we are just raiding, harrassing otherwise law abiding CITIZENS i say CIVIL DISOBEDIAN

[MarkBTW]

I thought I was listening to Mr.Garrason, he said mmkay so much, lol.

[tobynsaunders]

"You might not pursue religion enough"... I don't think the guy understands what that means. Religious claims are, by definition, without evidence, so what does it mean to 'not pursue Scientology enough', for example, or 'not pursue Hinduism enough'? "You might not pursue a belief that Thor control lightning enough"... ridiculous. Civil libertarianism is highly moral, but economic libertarianism is highly immoral; cannabis should, clearly, be legal & its use should be encouraged though.

[anjilyn2]

love his 2nd point!

[sksepulv]

Hard to argue with logic, eh? 

[bigjohnson9687]

"People like to alter their mood, mostly because other people screw up the planet with dumb laws and dumb decisions that just make you have to do something at the end of the day." - Bill Maher

[beatsandmelodies]

"Recreation my eye!" I am in mourning trying to cope. Next thing I hear is "Can Not Fix The Deficit Guy" with "The Alphabet Boys" next with a gun chasing even the fun. Epic Democracy?

Scared to admit being ticklish.

Let's just call it fifty... All fifty states... Legalize cannabis technohydro...