On the Criminalization of Sudafed

December 22, 2006

I made it to six miles yesterday evening, which is one mile further than I’ve ever run at once. And until last week, I hadn’t run 5 miles since I was 17 - and about 40 pounds lighter. Needless to say, spending an hour in the cold gives you plenty of time to think about things and come up with ideas. Last night was just such a night, all I needed was a real-world example. Well, this morning I came across just such an one, via Catallarchy by way of The Liberty Papers.

Apologists for even an idealistically minimal level of prohibition are at a complete loss to explain how such a necessary and proper function of the state has been perverted to such an extent - and they are all the more silent when asked to propose a remedy to the current problem. But even rhetorically conceding that the war on drugs, so-called, is a just and necessary exercise of police power - that there exists some basal level of drug prohibition that is necessary to maintain a free and ordered society - and that such an utopian fantasy could actually be effected in reality, it ought now be patently obvious that the marginal costs of such an endeavor have for some time, and by several orders of magnitude, exceeded the marginal benefits thereby ensured.


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