Estrategia and the Drugs Market

Mark Thornton escribe y describe con la vehemencia debida en www.mises.org sobre el tema

Extractos:

"...Americans are dying from illegal drugs at rising and alarming rates. These deaths are also the result of the drug war because government prohibition makes drugs more potent, more impure, more dangerous, more addictive, and more deadly..."

"...Look at the problems in drug-producing areas of the world such as Mexico, South America, the Middle East and Afghanistan...We know very well that the drug war and illegal drug money is helping to undermine local institutions, spread dangerous ideologies, and fuel anti-Americanism. The same applies to the inner city ghettos..."

"...People who sell illegal drugs want their products to be as concentrated as possible in order to avoid detection from law enforcement. They are not trying to kill their customers, but in black markets sellers are not held accountable by law or competition. If McDonald's sold a hamburger that killed one customer it would affect its sales around the globe and they would be prosecuted and sued for millions of dollars. The same is true for all businesses in the free market..."

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"The solution is to end prohibition and all government involvement with drugs in the same way we left Vietnam. No prohibition, no law enforcement, no government distribution centers, no regulation, no controls, just abandon government drug control like we abandoned Vietnam — completely and in disgrace for what we had done. Vietnam was a complete basket case when we left and has improved a great deal in many ways, including abandoning communist economics and allowing some freedom of religion.

Drug legalization will also lead to improvements because sellers will be legally liable for selling drugs that harm their customers by causing overdoses and death, or to minors. Before prohibition, Bayer sold heroin and Coca Cola sold cocaine and nobody died as a result from overdose. Marijuana is still safer than alcohol, tobacco, and most FDA-approved prescription drugs, even though it has greatly increased in potency under prohibition.

Sellers will also not be shooting guns at their competitors. Drug gangs will lose their source of funding. There will be plenty of space in prison for real criminals. The corruption and bribery that infects our entire law enforcement and legal system will be purged."

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