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Quote from Milton Friedman,

Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and also the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other measure that would accomplish so much to promote law and order?



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Milton Friedman (more quotes by Milton Friedman or books by/about Milton Friedman)


(1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist, economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan, "ultimate guru of the free-market system"

Source:

May 1, 1972, Newsweek

Categories:

Prohibition, Drugs, Legalization, Crime, Law, Police, Peace

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