Libertarian

George Phillies

Prohibition - When I was a little boy, television was filled with gangster prohibition movies. My parents, who were very wise people, told me that there were two certainties about prohibition: It was a total failure. No one would ever be dumb enough to try it again. Now we have drug prohibition, a total failure that wastes tens of billions of dollars and gives criminal records to tens of millions of Americans. It's time to treat marijuana the way we treat alcohol. Yes, people will have drug problems. People have alcohol problems, too. We live in an imperfect world, but we should try to avoid making it worse.