"The most notable of those consequences has been labeled the "Iron Law of Prohibition" by Richard Cowan.[9] That law states that the more intense the law enforcement, the more potent the prohibited substance becomes. When drugs or alcoholic beverages are prohibited, they will become more potent, will have greater variability in potency, will be adulterated with unknown or dangerous substances, and will not be produced and consumed under normal market constraints. The Iron Law undermines the prohibitionist case and reduces or outweighs the benefits ascribed to a decrease in consumption." From: Alcohol Prohibition Was A Failure by Mark Thornton, Mark Thornton is the O. P. Alford III Assistant Professor of Economics at Auburn University.
I don't condone the use of drugs, but how can it ever be stopped? The war on drugs has increased our: court backups & $, ER/hospitial over crowding & $, prisions & related $, law enforcement $, $ spent in So. America, all = bigger goverenment & $$$
2006-06-28
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