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"Would Ending The Drug War Stimulate Economic Growth?"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new commentary up here at The Atlantic.  Here is how it starts: Correspondent Richard Posner wrote an interesting blog post suggesting six ways that the U.S. could stimulate economic growth, without making the debt much worse. I agree with much said in the post, but there's one point that I want to pick at a little. Posner believes that ending the drug war would help. I'm not so sure. There are many philosophical reasons for ending the drug war that are quite compelling.  If you have any libertarian friends, just ask them, and I'm sure they'll happily rant on for hours.  There are also a couple of economic benefits that I've heard.  But providing for more economic growth isn't an argument I've come across very often...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 08, 2010 (boomark / email).