https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/12/friday-cato-repeal-day-celebration-prohibition-still-doesnt-work/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 02 Dec 2014 20:51:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/12/friday-cato-repeal-day-celebration-prohibition-still-doesnt-work/comment-page-1/#comment-314158 Tue, 02 Dec 2014 20:51:44 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=49794#comment-314158 In the 80’s, I was friends with some people who worked for the DEA. One evening over several beers one of them told me that the “War on Drugs” was a joke. The simplest way to cut down the drug problem was to legalize them. You would remove the incentive to push drugs and take the big money out of it. He then said that it would never happen because there was too much money to be made in producing and selling drugs and too much money to be made in fighting drugs and both sides owned Congresscritters.

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