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Let's Legalize Those Drugs
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Item Title Let's Legalize Those Drugs
Guest Glasser, Ira
Guest Rangel, Charles B.
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedMarch 24, 1986
Description

The title of this show can be assented to by Mr. Glasser--because "The criminal

sanction does do something: it creates and maintains the criminal structure"--and by Mr. Buckley--because "We are not winning the war against drugs and, under the circumstances, we should examine alternative possibilities"--but emphatically not by Mr. Rangel, who has "often wondered, if we were taking a look at the tobacco situation de novo, whether or not we would be as liberal today knowing the danger of tobacco abuses." Strongly put cases here; not much meeting of minds between men who would both become favorite Firing Line debaters: CR: "If you want to talk about valium, that's a classic example of how you find a drug that's being abused by doctors, by patients, and we should have stronger deterrents than--" IG: "Criminal ones?" CR: "You bet your life, criminal ones."

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Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 60 minutes
FormatText
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S0685
Record Number80040.928
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