Ep. 443 As the Drug War Recedes, What Are the Results?
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2015
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Mises Institute senior fellow Mark Thornton reviews the cases of Portugal and Washington state: have the fears of the prohibitionists been realized?
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 443. |
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| 0:31.9 | Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. |
| 0:33.6 | Talking today about a couple of milestones that have been reached in the process of overturning and reversing the drug war. |
| 0:41.3 | We're going to talk about Portugal and the decriminalization of drugs there. |
| 0:46.0 | We're also going to talk about what's happened in Washington State over the past two and a half years or so. |
| 0:52.2 | And we're going to talk about these things with our old |
| 0:54.7 | friend, Mark Thornton. Mark is senior fellow of the Meesa Institute. He is the author of several |
| 1:02.9 | books, including The Economics of Prohibition, will link to all of Mark's books on today's show notes |
| 1:08.9 | page, tomwoods.com slash 443. |
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