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We Don’t Need Another War on Drugs

We Don’t Need Another War on Drugs
Then Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan (L) aboard an Osprey aircraft during a tour of the U.S.-Mexico border, in El Paso, Texas, on Feb. 23, 2019. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Pool/Getty Images
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We all have our private biases so let me confess mine: I loathe the smell of marijuana. It makes me gag. I also have grave doubts about the effect of weed on the human brain, particularly kids in high school and college who are ingesting this stuff at record rates. Adults too turned to it during lockdowns and now every American city I’ve visited smells of the stuff, while dispensaries are everywhere.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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