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- “war on drugs”
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Category: Mises Media, 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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Online Publish Date: July 29, 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...
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Category: AERC 2013, Mises Media, 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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Category: Reclamation of Liberties: Revisiting the War on Drugs, Mises Media, Lecture Series, Introductory and High School
Online Publish Date: April 22, 2019
Hosted by Young Americans for Liberty at Auburn University and the Mises Institute. Recorded 20 April 2019 at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: May 30, 2006
I personally find all currently illegal drugs loathsome; they stunt the mind, inhibit the body, and curtail productivity. I would never consume such substances myself, and I would advise others against doing so. Yet, compared to the adverse effects of their illegalization, the harm of drugs themselves is small indeed. Drug-taking is extremely unhealthy for the persons engaging in it, but not for...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: April 22, 2013
President Barack Obama is famous for many things, including two best-selling autobiographical books. In those books, he openly admitted to using illegal drugs as a young man, specifically marijuana. So, one would think that he would be amenable to reforming drug laws and sentencing guidelines, or even legalizing marijuana.Instead he has been two-faced on the issue. He suggests that things can be...
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Category: Interviews
Online Publish Date: May 10, 2014
Interviewed by host Alan Butler, Mark Thornton discusses the failed War on Drugs, and how a return to sanity is possible if the intellectual, scientific, and ideological communities rise up against it. He also talks about Janet Yellen, the Fed, and our current economic situation.
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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 Media, Interviews, Individual Interview
Online Publish Date: February 15, 2014
Interviewed by Paul Molloy, Mark Thornton talks about the economics of prohibition.
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Category: Individual Lectures, Mises Media, Lecture Series
Online Publish Date: February 21, 2015
Legalizing recreational marijuana has begun. Marijuana for medical use is already legalized in twenty states. Marijuana is not a gateway drug as it has been viewed for almost one hundred years. Begin to be more afraid of government and current legal drugs, like prescriptions. Legal free markets in drugs would be incredibly beneficial. Here are ten ways to imagine such a free market.This lecture...
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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)...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: December 30, 1999
The Clinton administration wasn’t content with blowing up a pharmacy in the Sudan; now it wants to blow up hundreds of them on the web. The plan is to give the Food and Drug Administration massive new investigative powers to hamper online sales of prescription drugs. The proposed legislation would impose penalties of half a million dollars per item sold without federal permission, give the FDA $...
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Online Publish Date: August 20, 2015
In an act of frustration and desperation, the port city of Gloucester Massachusetts Chief of Police announced on his Facebook page that he was no longer going to arrest hard drug addicts and that indeed his police force would now work to help drug addicts get help.According to this article:Frustrated, and without any forethought, Campanello added what would turn out to be a propitious statement...
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Category: Interviews
Online Publish Date: July 21, 2014
Interviewed by host Steve Stanek, Mark Thornton explains how, because of the Drug War, unaccompanied children from Mexico and Central American countries are now pouring across the border into the U.S.
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Category: Audio Mises Daily, Mises Media
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: 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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Category: Mises Media, Interviews, Individual Interview
Online Publish Date: May 13, 2011
Victor Mikhailovsky, the sixteen-year-old host of the online radio program "Insane Government," interviews Mark Thornton on the topic of the war on drugs and the economics of drug prohibition. Recorded 11 May 2011. [1:04:21]
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Category: The Free Market, Journals, Institute Publications
The Free Market 17, no. 9 (September 1999) As the bureaucrats pursue their Draconian war on drugs, the Clinton administration is conspiring with the pharmaceutical industry to provide drugs at taxpayer expense. Under the guise of expanding Medicare—already a massive wealth transfer from young to old—prescription drugs will be included among the benefits the feds use to further rope senior...