First the New York Times and now National Review. Except the National Review post is a repost from 1996. That would make the Times only 18 years behind the times. The times they are a changin.
The War On Drugs Is Lost – Still
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First the New York Times and now National Review. Except the National Review post is a repost from 1996. That would make the Times only 18 years behind the times. The times they are a changin.
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4 responses to “The War On Drugs Is Lost – Still”
I still have that issue of National Review stored away somewhere. Of course, the puritans in the conservative movement ignored the magazine’s analysis and recommendations. The choir doesn’t like it when your message strays from its political and moral dogmas.
I mentioned the issue to some business colleagues one night as we were having dinner with a regional VP. I’ll never forget the hypocrisy of my manager that night as he got all moral authoritarian about drugs with a cocktail in his hand as he did so. Hilarious.
I remember getting that issue of NR in the mail, back when I still thought NR was worth reading. Had it stored for years, not sure where it is now. Very impressive line up of contributors, Buckley, Friedman, Szasz and so on.
They’ve really gone down hill since Buckley left, I doubt you could get jerkoffs like Jonah Goldberg and Rubbish Ponnuru to endorse legalization.
Meanwhile, we supposedly legalized marijuana in WA 2 years ago. It took 2 years for the state to approve 24 permits for a retail operation out of hundreds. Out of that 24 only a few are actually open, and every one of them is out of stock with no idea when more will be available. Just thinking back, I doubt it took 2 years from repealing prohibition to the first brewery to open. Way to go WA!!!
Furthermore, having lived in NY, MA, CA and WA I have come to believe that the big difference between east coast and west coast politics is that east coasters are incompetent, stupid and corrupt. On the west coast they are just stupid and incompetent. I think I prefer corruption, at least then you can bribe your way out of a problem.
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I can vouch for the corruption you find in the East. In the late 80’s I was living in So Cal working for a retail chain. We opened up a store in NYC. Had to bribe the building inspector to get his approval on the store renovations (The inspector said he could think of a thousand reasons -$$$- why the work couldn’t be approved). We never had that problem with California inspectors.