Ep. 307 The War on Drugs: Born 100 Years Ago
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
About the Guest
Mark Thornton is a senior fellow at the Mises Institute, and teaches economics at Auburn University.
Article Discussed
"The War on Drugs Was Born 100 Years Ago," by Mark Thornton
Books by the Guest
The Quotable Mises
The Economics of Prohibition
Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War (with Robert Ekelund)
Guest's Twitter
Related Episode
Ep. 204: A Judge Against the Drug War? (Judge Jim Gray)
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| 0:00.0 | In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:05.2 | Now's not that time. |
| 0:06.4 | And Republicans. |
| 0:07.9 | I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. |
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| 0:16.8 | You've found it. |
| 0:18.4 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:21.1 | Beware, citizen. |
| 0:22.9 | You are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:26.9 | The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:34.1 | Welcome to the Tom Woods Show, episode 307. |
| 0:37.8 | I bet you didn't know that today is the 100th anniversary of the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914. |
| 0:46.3 | But you do now, because you're listening to the Tom Woods Show, for your daily serving of Liberty Education, |
| 0:52.3 | and this one comes courtesy of our guest, Mark Thornton. |
| 0:56.2 | Mark Thornton is a senior fellow of the Meesa Institute, the author of several books, including |
| 1:02.4 | The Economics of Prohibition, and he has an article out just today on the subject of this |
| 1:08.9 | 100-year anniversary. You can get all that stuff linked over at the |
| 1:14.6 | show notes page for this episode, which is tomwoods.com slash 307. Mark Thornton, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:23.2 | Hey, Tom, it's great to be back on your show. I've noticed you've been having a lot of great guests, |
| 1:27.3 | a lot of important people. So I'm happy to be back on your show. I've noticed you've been having a lot of great guests, a lot of important people. |
| 1:28.9 | So I'm happy to be back on. |
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