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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 630 The Legalization Cure for the Heroin Epidemic

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

There's a possibly counterintuitive solution to the heroin epidemic, says Mark Thornton: legalization. We discuss his recent article.

Show notes for Ep. 630

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 630.

0:03.2

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:08.0

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.4

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0:20.1

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0:22.9

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0:29.7

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0:40.6

You head over to tomwoods.com slash ebates, where you get cash rebates for almost all your online purchases,

0:48.4

and you refer one friend and you get $25. Come on now.

0:55.4

Tom Woods.com slash ebates.

0:57.7

You got to have like one friend and you get $25.

1:01.4

Tom Woods.com slash ebates right now.

1:04.9

Hi everybody. Tom Woods here.

1:06.2

Mark Thornton's back with us once again.

1:08.8

Mark's a senior fellow of the Mezes Institute, where he's a

1:11.5

resident scholar, and he is the book review editor of the quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics,

1:16.6

author of several books, all around great guy, an expert on the drug war. In fact, he has an

1:22.0

article out this week on that subject and on the heroin epidemic in particular. And I wanted to talk to him

1:29.1

about it. So here he is. Mark, welcome back to the show. Hey, Tom. It's great to be back on the show.

1:34.3

What a provocative article you have. But of course, it seems like I say that to you every time

1:38.3

you're on. It's been quite a while. This is episode 630. And we're going to link to your

1:43.5

article on legalizing heroin, and on that being the cure to the heroin epidemic that we're seeing. Tomwoods.com slash 630 will be the show notes page, and you can read that article. And, you know, there is something to this, you know, this idea of the significance

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