The prohibition of drugs produces on the average 10,000 additional homicides a year. It’s a moral problem that the government is going around killing 10,000 people. It’s a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people who may be doing something you and I don’t approve of but who are doing something that hurts nobody else.
Milton Friedman: ‘Crack Would Never Have Existed If You Had Not Had Drug Prohibition’
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