More from Milton Friedman

  1. There is no logical basis for the prohibition of marijuana. $7.7 billion is a lot of money, but that is one of the lesser evils. Our failur…
  2. Everybody loves to argue with Milton, particularly when he isn't there.
  3. So long as large sums of money are involved - and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal - it is literally impossible to stop the traffi…
  4. The Bank [of Canada] gave it a college try, it really did. It just doesn't work that way.
  5. It is because it's prohibited. See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to prot…
  6. I don't give a good goddamn what Milton Friedman says. He's not running for re-election!
  7. I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of…
  8. The stock market and economy are two different things.

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