“We need to turn drug use into an unwelcome #health scourge battled with #education and #compassion, not punished by incarceration.” — Dr. Michael Hicks, Economist #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
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“There’d never been a more advantageous time to be a #criminal in #America than during the 13 years of #AlcoholProhibition.” — Bill Bryson #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
“The chief cause of problems is solutions.” — Eric Severeid #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
“The drug war was a bipartisan effort. This rhetoric of law and order deployed by #politicians won elections nationwide, from races for local council seats to the presidency.” — Dominique DuBois Gilliard #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
“The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.” — David Simon #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
“If you want to get to the heart of the dope problem, #legalize it. #Prohibition is a law, in operation, that can only be used against the poor.” — James Baldwin #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
$500 billion dollars per year in the hands of the cartels and gangs “for them to fight over on our streets.” Read the full blog here: www.prohibitionblunder.org/post/fatal-f... #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
Fatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Endangering Citizens
The global illegal drug market is a $500 billion-dollar-per-year industry that—thanks to Drug Prohibition—has been handed over to cartels and gangs “for them to fight over on our streets,” according t...
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“I sit there on the bench and send these small dealers, who are black, off to prison for years and years and years. And they look at you almost uncomprehendingly. They don’t even know why we’re mad at them.” — Judge James Ford, Superior Court, Sacramento, California #EndTheWarOnDrugs
“[One] effect of making drugs #criminal is to drive people from mild drugs to strong drugs.” — Dr. Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
With 300 American deaths each day due to the War on Drugs—and almost 2 million since that war was declared—the time for honesty and action is now. Find out how you can help at www.ProhibitionBlunder.org. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
Check out the latest Fatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder blog post! Read the blog: www.prohibitionblunder.org/post/fatal-f... #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
Fatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Ignoring Legalization’s Successes
Although the US is still mired in the outdated and ineffective modus operandi of seize-and-destroy when it comes to drugs, there have been some heroic voices of dissent over the course of the past few...
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“Had drugs been decriminalized, ‘crack’ would never have been invented . . . and there would today be far fewer addicts.” — Dr. Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics Find out how you can help at www.ProhibitionBlunder.org. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
“Alcohol and tobacco use by teens is at its lowest point in decades because of #regulations and social norms, not #prohibition.” – Christina Dent, Curious: A Foster Mom’s Discovery of an Unexpected Solution to Drugs and Addiction, p. 157 #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
“Under prohibition of alcohol, deaths from alcohol poisoning went up sharply. Similarly, under drug prohibition, deaths from overdose and from adulterated substances have gone up.” – Dr. Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
As we’ve shown time and again throughout our research and content, the War on Drugs has failed, and it’s time to focus on the shift to a winning strategy. Read our latest blog, and share with those you know and love. www.prohibitionblunder.org/post/fatal-f...
Fatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Ignoring Economists
As we’ve shown time and again throughout our research and content, the War on Drugs has failed, and it’s time to focus on the shift to a winning strategy. The country—and the world at large—cannot sus...
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“The research-and-development teams in drug-makers’ laboratories are not trying to come up with products that are better, or safer. Instead, they are simply trying to devise something that is new enough to be allowed on sale.” –Tom Wainwright #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
Ending Drug Prohibition is one giant leap towards restoring social order in American cities and communities. Find out how you can help at www.ProhibitionBlunder.org. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
Erasing Drug Prohibition will incentivize compliance with #laws, instead of violence. Find out how you can help at www.ProhibitionBlunder.org. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
Want to better protect kids against drug abuse? End Drug Prohibition. Find out how you can help at www.ProhibitionBlunder.org. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
More #Americans have died in the War on Drugs than in all our other wars combined. End Drug Prohibition. Find out how you can help at www.ProhibitionBlunder.org. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
Want to replace #cartels and #gangs with law abiding companies? End Drug Prohibition. Find out how you can help at www.ProhibitionBlunder.org. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
The War on Drugs is one of complicity, as evidenced in VICE News' excellent 2020 video covering the rise of drug-related violence in Culiacán, Mexico, despite the surge of the global #pandemic. Read the Fatal Features #blog for the full story! #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
Fatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Destroying Fellow Nations
The War on Drugs is one of complicity, as evidenced in Vice News' excellent 2020 video covering the rise of drug-related violence in Culiacán, Mexico, despite the surge of the global pandemic.
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Regulation via #Legalization: Making drugs knowable, controlled, labeled, and overwhelmingly safer. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
Regulation through legalization protects kids from being lured into drug dealing. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
End the incentives for drug crime in America. End Drug Prohibition. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
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Prohibition Blunder July 2026 Newsletter
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There’s plenty of #corruption to go around thanks to the ongoing war on drugs. Read the blog post for the full scoop. www.prohibitionblunder.org/post/fatal-f... #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
Fatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Inviting Corruption
Over the course of an entire year, Common Pleas Judge Paul Michael Pozonsky took cocaine from an evidence locker and replaced it with baking powder.
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“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” — Sun Tzu #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
Perhaps nowhere could one of America’s most fortunate inheritances—federalism—be more valuable than in bringing actual control to the matter of drugs. Visit www.ProhibitionBlunder.org to find out how you can help. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
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“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect #liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.” — Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis