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DRUG PROHIBITION IS BOTH WRONG AND UNWORKABLE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2011

Tibor R. Machan
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Many are growing increasingly skeptical of the claims by government officials about winning the war against drugs. Should this war be supported because a smaller percentage of teenagers use marijuana, or should it be opposed because a larger percentage of teenagers and young adults use cocaine and crack in the USA? Should people be optimistic when multi-billion dollar shipments of cocaine are confiscated, or pessimistic that seizures continue to increase yet have such little impact on price and consumption? Drug prohibition was doomed to failure from the start, no less so than alcohol prohibition, and the best alternative is an immediate return to complete legalization of such drugs.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 11 , Issue 30 , Spring 2012 , pp. 85 - 92
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2011

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