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Harry Browne

The following are the views of Libertarian Party candidate Harry Browne:

G
overnment doesn’t work. And the government’s War on Drugs doesn’t work. In fact, it is the quintessential example that government doesn’t work.

If we really want to start to solve the problem of drugs in America, the quickest and most effective step would be to end the insane War on Drugs.

First, we need to admit that the government has failed completely to stop people from taking drugs. It can’t stop drugs from coming into the country – it can’t even stop drugs from getting into prisons.

That’s why it has become obvious to more and more Americans that this War will never be won. The past 30 years have seen a steady flow of tougher laws, formation of new task forces, expansion of powers for agencies like the CIA or FBI, news of drug busts that presumably “broke the back” of the drug trade, confiscation of enormous amounts of cocaine and heroin, and gleeful news showing increases in arrests and convictions.

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