The End of Prohibition?

What are the advantages and disadvantages to legalizing drugs? What would happen to international drug cartels? How would it affect the work of law enforcement?
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Howard Wooldridge, a retired Michigan police officer, rode his horse Misty across the U.S., talking to groups like Rotary clubs, Kiwanis, churches, Elks lodges, John Birch societies, and media about the failure of the so-called War on Drugs.

What are the advantages and disadvantages to legalizing drugs? What would happen to international drug cartels? How would it affect the work of law enforcement? How many people are actually addicted to drugs? What is the nature of the political opposition to even having a rational conversation on the subject?

Listen to my podcast on the Santa Fe Radio Cafe, as I speak to Howard Wooldridge of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) here.

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