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Why We Should Legalize Drugs: Part II
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Item Title Why We Should Legalize Drugs: Part II
Guest Duke, Steven
Guest Szasz, Thomas Stephen (1920-)
Guest Nadelmann, Ethan Avram
Guest Sweet, Robert W.
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedJanuary 16, 1996
Description

Mr. Buckley and all four of his guests agree that the War on Drugs has failed and should be ended. But these shows are no exercise in redundancy; each participant came to his conclusion by a different route, and each of the shows examines a different aspect of the problem: the first, the cost of the war; the second, approaches to legalization; the third, political difficulties in the way of reform. SD: "My position is that we should repeal prohibition for any drug for which there is a major black market. I'm not a libertarian and I would have no difficulty with prohibiting some drugs, as long as the prohibition was enforceable, as long as we didn't wreck the country in the process." ... TS: "I think this is a posture that many American politicians have taken: 'I am waging a war on evil.' The Evil Empire--instead of Communism, we have heroin."

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Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 30 minutes
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Medium television programs
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color
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sound
Hoover IDProgram S1074
Record Number80040.1343
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