http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/03/the_failure_of.html Every American president since Nixon has engaged in a “war” on illegal drugs: cocaine, heroin, hashish, and the like. And every president without exception has lost this war. The explanation lies not in a lack of effort- indeed, I believe... en-us http://blog.tomevslin.com/2005/04/its_time_to_leg.html I’ve seen a number of new thoughts pro and con since I blogged that drugs should be legalized. Fred Wilson would like to see the Democratic Party come out in favor of legalizing drugs as “an example of social pragmatism 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://www.fredschoeneman.com/archives/000903.html Is a big, fat defeat. But is it actually raising consumption and the number of addicts over what they would be under a legalization system? Check out this post by University of Chicago economist Gary Becker: ...legalization could have a... 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://genericheretic.blogs.com/generic_heretic/2005/03/the_beckerposne.html Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary S. Becker argues for the an end to the failed http://blog.jim.com/?postid=6 What does Becker\'s proposal do about swaggering cops harassing honest peaceful people? 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 should be legalized. See here. You may also want to read Richard A. Posner's ...]]> 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