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Category: Audio/Video, Interviews, Individual Interview
Online Publish Date: February 7, 2014
Interviewed by host Marc Clair, Mark Thornton differentiates between the mainstream approach to an issue and an Austrian or free market approach. Mark also discusses some common objections to drug legalization, and articulates some of the lessons we can learn about prohibition from shows like “Breaking Bad” and “The Wire”.
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Category: Books
Alcohol abuse and heavy tobacco use are two of the leading causes of death in the United States. It seems rather ludicrous to advocate the outlawing of drugs and not the outlawing of alcohol and tobacco. (p. 11) Vance writes from a viewpoint that will surprise many readers. He himself does not condone the use of dangerous drugs. To the contrary, he is a Christian and a Bible scholar of...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: October 10, 2012
The efforts, spurred by Mayor Bloomberg, to ban large cans of drinks deemed too sugary have been much in the news lately; and a peculiar point in the mayor's defense of this measure is highly relevant to Laurence Vance's excellent book. What struck me as odd in the mayor's comments was that he confined his defense to pointing out the dangers to health posed by the drinks he wished to ban, along...
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Category: AERC 2013, Audio/Video, Conferences, Austrian Economics Research Conference
Online Publish Date: March 27, 2013
Part of the Authors Forum, presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference. Recorded 21 March 2013 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
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As an apparently war-minded people, Americans (or at least, our American political leaders) have been comfortable framing parts of the domestic policy agenda as wars for decades. Two of the most prominent have been the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs.
Despite the similarity in their names, there is an important difference between the two. The War on Poverty is not a real war. The War on...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: August 2, 2014
As an apparently war-minded people, Americans (or at least, our American political leaders) have been comfortable framing parts of the domestic policy agenda as wars for decades. Two of the most prominent have been the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs.Despite the similarity in their names, there is an important difference between the two. The War on Poverty is not a real war. The War on Drugs...
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Online Publish Date: November 1, 2017
Even if the drug war were to end today, there would still be street crime in Mexico.However, these issues would be on a dramatically smaller scale. Mexico’s street gangs could never ascend to the level of an organized crime outfit without the massive profits from illegal drugs to pay for the necessary weaponry, hitmen, political protection, etc.By the same token, black-market drug money evokes a...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: February 27, 2003
Numbers never lie. Or do they? With government, it's simply a matter of who's keeping the books. Take America's so-called war on drugs, for instance. Last year, Congress earmarked nearly $19 billion—nearly twice what it spent on military operations in Afghanistan—to enforce U.S. drug laws.This year's totals, however, are remarkably different. According to the White House's 2003 "National Drug...
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Category: Audio Mises Daily, Audio/Video
Online Publish Date: August 2, 2014
Unlike the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs is a real and bloody war by the United States against a minority group known as drug buyers and sellers, writes Randall Holcombe. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Allan Davis.
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: March 22, 2013
Public opinion now favors the outright legalization of marijuana with nearly three-out-of-four adults in favor of legalizing medical marijuana. These numbers should continue to grow, because the polls exhibit a type of “generation effect,” in that people are not changing their minds as they grow older. Some prominent and diverse figures, such as Joycelyn Elders (Bill Clinton’s Surgeon General)...
