Milton Friedman Quote 

"I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my value system,
if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so.
Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal."

by:
Milton Friedman
(1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist, economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan, "ultimate guru of the free-market system"
Date:
1986
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Prohibition didn't work for alcohol, and it isn't working for drugs.
 -- Joe, Rochester, MI
 
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 -- Cosmo, Free State
 
 -- Anonymous 
Apply the economic model to the problem and the same solution that was found in the US during prohibition of alchohol would be found
 -- Anonymous
 
So-called recreational drugs have ruined more lives than can be counted. It they weren't against the law, the U.S. economy would have crashed by now. Open your eyes fools.
 -- Anonymous
 
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