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Peter Jaworski is a PhD Candidate in Philosophy at Bowling Green State University and a Director of the Institute for Liberal Studies (www.liberalstudies.ca). He holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and an MA from the University of Waterloo.
Articles By Peter Jaworski
The Price of Pot Prohibition
by Peter Jaworski on July 22, 2009
It is a moral question that we are facing. And there is every reason to believe that keeping marihuana illegal is not just immoral, it's deeply, profoundly irrational. From a rational public policy perspective, marihuana prohibition is, to be charitable, unwise. It may very well be the most unwise public policy around. At least, it is difficult to find public policies that cost so much, benefit us so little, and destroy as many lives as marihuana prohibition. Or so I will argue.
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Crime and Punishment
If the chattering classes want to know why the public thinks crime is still an issue, maybe they should look at how "ex"-criminals get to create new victims all over again....
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