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Blogs Liberty and Power A Criminally Stupid War on Drugs

Apr 14, 2009

A Criminally Stupid War on Drugs

by Liberty and Power

Clive Crook of the Financial Times asks"How much misery can a policy cause before it is acknowledged as a failure and reversed?" and cites a 2004 study by Jeffrey Miron for the Independent Institute and a new study by Glenn Greenwald for the Cato Institute.