September 21, 2004

Government Failure...

Radley Balko summarizes a set of statistics about the government's efforts to suppress the market for recreational drugs:

By nearly every metric -- drug use, spending, availability, purity, price -- the drug war has failed. Throughly. And that's before considering the trespasses on our civil liberties our government has undertaken to achieve that failure.
Read the rest. The magnitude of the failure is really quite astounding.

So, who is benefitting from the $60 billion being spent annually by local, state and federal governments?

Posted by Steve on September 21, 2004
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