http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/03/the_war_on_drug.html I am in broad agreement with Becker. But I am somewhat hesitant to describe the war against drugs as having been “lost.” By that token, so has the war against bank robbery, or any other crime, been lost, because there... en-us http://www.aaronwall.com/archives/000460.html Much of the best art in the world is created under the influence of drugs. Our #1 power might be the military, but only because it is funded. The profits need to come from somewhere and we consume far more... http://blogger.xs4all.nl/steeph/archive/0001/01/01/33347.aspx Links not good enough for their own post but noteworthy nevertheless. http://blogger.xs4all.nl/steeph/archive/2005/04/02/33347.aspx Links not good enough for their own post but noteworthy nevertheless. http://themodulator.org/archives/001691.html Gary Becker argues that the war on drugs has failed and that alternate approaches involving legalization, regulation and high taxes might achieve current results along with other benefits without the large social and individual costs associated with th... http://www.analphilosopher.com/posts/1111783259.shtml Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary S. Becker believes that drugs (i.e., the use of drugs for recreational purposes) should be legalized. See here http://baseballcrank.com/archives2/2005/03/baseball_posner.php 7th Circuit judge/author/academic/blogger Richard Posner, in the course of a critique of the War on Drugs: Oddly, one of the strongest cases for prohibiting drugs is the use of steroids by athletes. The reason is the arms-race character of such... http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/2005/03/24.html#a832 I neglected to mention that the Becker-Posner Blog has addressed the drug war, first by Economist Gary Becker and then a response by Judge Richard Posner These are a couple of highly respected scholars, and so it's nice to see them talk about the failure http://www.pointoflaw.com/archives/001047.php Becker and Posner discuss. Tabarrok notes:One interesting reason why the drug war reduces consumption less than people imagine is that prohibition reduces some costs.  Drug sellers, for example, do not pay social security taxes for their employees, the... http://shianux.jiyuuu.org/2005/03/21/80/becker_and_posner_on_drugs/ 3 months ago I pondered over a comprehensive model of drug legalisation that would both reduce the social harms resulting from the criminalisation of the drug trade, and the expected health fallout from increased drug consumption. Of course, such a ta...