Nigerians and Uighurs.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
We spend $50 BN a year on the war on drugs, and have been fighting it for 50 years. I repeat, you think the problem with it is scale?
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Replying to @davidgshort
If you’re not right about legalization, why not?
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
The reason I would be wrong is that the increase in drug use from legalization is worse for society than the savings in lives and money from not fighting it and the potential benefits from the reallocation of those resources to lower taxes, debt, or drug rehabilitation programs
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
People get shot in their homes in the US on a not infrequent basis because someone raised the wrong home looking for drugs. This happens multiple times every year.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
The other hidden problem is the people who go into prison for nonviolent drug crimes and come out as gang members with a network leading to violent crime. Our criminal justice system has a lot of problems but drug laws exacerbate most of them
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Replying to @davidgshort
Based on my quick reading no country has ever properly legalized drugs, however there are many countries which, because of how dysfunctional they are, drugs are de facto legal I.e. Afghanistan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_prevalence_of_opiates_use …
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @davidgshort
Portugal is #31 on that list. Not convincing evidence but kind of disappointing for a groundbreaking innovative contrarian policy solution. This conversation reminds me of the question you posed to Hank Paulson; Does America need a special economic zone ...
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[to test drug legalization]?
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