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The War on Drugs & Why It Must End
Markets are not always efficient and neither are government programs. The Great Recession of 2008 exposed the structural flaws of both the financial sector and the U.S. government. While little has been done to reform predatory finance, bitter debates have been waged over how to manage and reduce the public debt. Unfortunately, most cuts to expenditures are not where the money is (i.e., defense spending), but instead are aimed at the public welfare and other minute programs that would not make a significant impact on the federal budget. Nevertheless, there’s one government initiative that is outside of the public discourse and would yield positive results if abolished; and that is the War on Drugs. And there’s a moral, an economic, and a foreign policy argument against it.
