End the "Drug War"
6 June 2006
Editor, The Boston Globe
Dear Editor:
Three cheers for Bill Fried's impassioned yet well-reasoned call to end drug prohibition ("A safer society? Legalize drugs," June 6). In addition to the benefits he mentions that legalization will bring, these others are important:
- drugs' potency will fall as sellers lose the incentive to stuff maximum narcotic power into small, easily hidden packages;
- fewer sting operations, as police will no longer be charged with uncovering activities that, unlike robbery and murder, produce no complaining victims;
- a freer society in which presumptuous busybodies are obliged to mind their own business.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Editor, The Boston Globe
Dear Editor:
Three cheers for Bill Fried's impassioned yet well-reasoned call to end drug prohibition ("A safer society? Legalize drugs," June 6). In addition to the benefits he mentions that legalization will bring, these others are important:
- drugs' potency will fall as sellers lose the incentive to stuff maximum narcotic power into small, easily hidden packages;
- fewer sting operations, as police will no longer be charged with uncovering activities that, unlike robbery and murder, produce no complaining victims;
- a freer society in which presumptuous busybodies are obliged to mind their own business.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Wednesday March 21, 2007 at 5:16pm