The American judicial system did not initially accept drug prohibition.
Violent crimes associated with drug prohibition could be avoided if government would step in and regulate the market.
It also appears to be the first and only systematic cost-benefit analysis of drug prohibition.
The committee further argues that the benefits of drug prohibition are unknown, but probably minimal.
It was created in the 1980s to oppose drug prohibition.
For a more general exposition, see arguments for and against drug prohibition.
He added that the failure of the park did not, in his view, resolve the argument over whether drug prohibition makes matters better or worse.
That's far more suffering than drug prohibition actually prevents.
This has built a whole international industry based upon drug prohibition, one which cannot easily be dismantled.
Christie is well known for his long standing criticism of drug prohibition, industrial society, and prisons.