Difference between revisions of "Drug Legalization"

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[[Category:Ideas Libertarians Do Not Own]]
 
[[Category:Ideas Libertarians Do Not Own]]
 
[[Category:Drugs, Gambling and Sex]]
 
[[Category:Drugs, Gambling and Sex]]
[[Category:Health Care]]
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[[Category:Deregulation]]
 
[[Category:Deregulation]]
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[[Category:Public Health Approach]]
 
[[Category:Harms Of Libertarian Policies]]
 
[[Category:Harms Of Libertarian Policies]]
 
{{DES | des = Long before libertarians advocated legalizing drugs, liberals advocated legalizing drugs.  The difference is how they would be legalized: libertarians want unregulated drugs, and liberals want drugs regulated from a [[Public Health Approach]] by organizations such as the FDA. | show=}}
 
{{DES | des = Long before libertarians advocated legalizing drugs, liberals advocated legalizing drugs.  The difference is how they would be legalized: libertarians want unregulated drugs, and liberals want drugs regulated from a [[Public Health Approach]] by organizations such as the FDA. | show=}}
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Decades of experience with [[Public Health|public health]] approaches to regulating alcohol and tobacco show that consumption and disease due to consumption can be greatly reduced.
 
Decades of experience with [[Public Health|public health]] approaches to regulating alcohol and tobacco show that consumption and disease due to consumption can be greatly reduced.
  
And for all their talk, libertarians do very little to promote drug legalization.  The major player in drug legalization is the [http://www.drugpolicy.org Drug Policy Alliance], an alliance of mostly liberal groups which prefer a public health viewpoint..
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And for all their talk, libertarians do very little to promote drug legalization.  The major player in drug legalization is the [http://www.drugpolicy.org Drug Policy Alliance], an alliance of mostly liberal groups which prefer a public health viewpoint. And some drugs (especially marijuana) are being legalized without electing libertarians.  Libertarians are not needed.  
  
 
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