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"Drugs and conservatives should go together"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this commentary in the Los Angeles Times by Jeffrey Miron, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.  Here are excerpts: For decades, the U.S. debate over drug legalization has pitted conservatives on one side against libertarians and some liberals on the other.  A few conservatives have publicly opposed the drug war (e.g., National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr.), but most conservatives either endorse it or sidestep the issue. Yet vigorous opposition to the drug war should be a no-brainer for conservatives. Legalization would not only promote specific policy objectives that are near and dear to conservative hearts, it is also consistent with core principles that conservatives endorse in other contexts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 29, 2010 (boomark / email).