Episode 66: The Libertarian Case for Drug Prohibition

The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast

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🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On episode 66, Charles talks to Charles Fain Lehman about drugs and crime. Charles asks Charles to tell him why he's wrong about the drug war, why marijuana is different from alcohol, whether we should ban substances to protect people from themselves, what the problem is with 'harm reduction,' how bad the drug crisis is, whether we talk about it seriously, and why drugs are more potent now than they used to be. Afterwards, they talk about whether crime is going up or down, or whether the whole debate is partisan nonsense.

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0:00.0	The Welcome to the Charles CW. W. Cook podcast, episode 66.
0:27.0	There was no podcast last week or the week before
0:30.0	because I was on vacation in England and what a time I chose to go. I think that may have
0:38.9	been the worst timed vacation in the history of National Review or perhaps even of the United States.
0:45.0	I missed the lion's share of the attempt to oust Joe Biden. I missed a presidential
0:50.4	assassination attempt. I missed the Republican National Convention. presidential assassination run the gauntlet between now and November 5th, especially now that my favorite politician of all
1:07.2	time, Kamala Harris, is likely to be the Democratic nominee. Before we get to my guest today, I want to update you on my other favorite politician of all time,
1:24.8	National Education Association President Becky Pringle,
1:29.1	who while I was away delivered yet another absolute barn burner of a speech. Here is the best part.
1:37.0	NEA delegates, we can do this work. We must do this work. We get to do this work. We will do this work because our students are depending on us to win all the things.
1:56.6	And EA, we have to win all the things,
2:00.8	all the things, all the things all the things our colleagues are depending on us to win all the things
2:09.6	keep going any a to preserve our democracy. We must win all the things. Delegates. We won't go back. We will keep going forward because we are the NDA. We are the NDA. We are the
2:29.5	E. We are the NDA. And that's what we do.
2:35.0	So there's three distinct sections in this one.
2:42.0	So the first part she sounds like I feel sometimes when I get up
2:49.3	for work. We can do this work. We must do this work. We get to do this work. We will do this work.
3:00.0	Then she moves into a very strange all the things riff which I guess is well the only time I've ever felt like that in my life was when I was at a football game.
3:14.0	To win all the things!
3:17.0	And EA, we have to win all the things, all the things,
3:22.0	all the things, all the things are things are colleagues are depending on us to win all the things
3:30.7	and then she seems to have forgotten or wonders whether others in the vicinity have forgotten
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