Marijuana, heroin, and cocaine: the war on drugs may be a disaster, but do we really want a legalized peace?
American Prospect, The, June, 2002 by Reuter, Peter
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WHAT WOULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN IF DRUGS were legalized in America? For the last decade advocates of such a course, though politically weak, have dominated the intellectual debate for the simple reason that their criticism of existing policy holds a great deal of truth. The most conspicuous harms associated with drugs nowadays--violent crime, public disorder, government corruption, and diseases related to injection with dirty needles--are caused in large part by the country's prohibition policies.
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