Can Government Outlaw Drugs?

by Maurice Cranston

Herbert Spencer was the nineteenth century ’s pre-eminent libertarian sociologist; Sir James Fitzjames Stephen among its greatest conservative jurists. Between them they represent the opposite poles of government regulation and laissez-faire. They here debate President Bush’s war on drugs through the good offices of the celebrated philosophical medium,

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Stephen: You will always be remembered, Spencer, as an authority on social problems. What do you think could be done about the problem of drugs, which is critical in America today?

Spencer: Quite simply, the traffic in drugs should cease to be a crime.

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Stephen: You will always be remembered, Spencer, as an authority on social problems. What do you think could be done about the problem of drugs, which is critical in America today?

Spencer: Quite simply, the traffic in drugs should cease to be a crime.