Drugs: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly | Mark Thornton

Sponsored by the Auburn University Economics Club, this talk by Mark Thornton was presented at the Ludwig von Mises Institute on 1 October 2012.

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[Damon Maetche]

I watched this while high.

[ahmartin14]

The kid at the beginning is a freaking G



[fortuenti]

The Amerikan people have been too dumbed-down to grasp the truth this man speaks. The "Washington Establishment" fears his kind more than death itself.

[explorataur]

hmm wonder what would happen if insurance companies covered gym memberships and personal trainers like they did prescription drugs.

Of course, sick people are vital to healthy business.

[jasonofcompsci]

I wish he talked in more detail about how prohibition makes the variations of a particular drug more dangerous. I feel like he would have lost a lot of people there but an example of spice and how prohibition of a particular component leads to more dangerous components in the market.

[jeffmagic32]

The FDA also has a major incentive problem. An FDA worker's career is far more jeopardized by a single death from an approved drug, than from 1000 deaths from an unapproved and slowly approved drug not being in the market,

[Hashishin13]

ur mom. jk

[surrealnumber]

you will find a lot of us do, and it might be because its writers are libertarian.

[357lockdown]

I agree. The evolution of our bodies from our ancestors is a wonderful thing, but, what would you expect from millions of years of mutations that prove beneficial. Isn't evolution beautiful?

[al relbity]

Who Is John Galt ?

[Patrick Welby]

diet and exercise hell no theres gotta be a pill for that lol sadly thats the mindset of so many americans

[smoky281]

you know thats a good idea i'll have to listen to this a second time