This is the Cater Daily Podcast for Monday, June 26, 2017.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions argues in the Washington Post that the drug trade is inherently violent

And part of the reason for that is drug dealers can't go to court to resolve conflicts

Adam Bates a policy analyst at the Cato Institute,

says Jeff Sessions is stealing his arguments,

and from them he is drawing the wrong conclusions.

Let me read to you a little bit from an op-ed

in the Washington Post by Jeff Sessions. The headline is

Being Soft on Sentencing means more violent crime. It's time to get tough again.

He writes, drug trafficking is inherently a violent business.

If you want to collect a drug debt, you can't and don't file a lawsuit in court.

You collect it by the barrel of a gun.

And so he writes later on in this op-ed,

I issued a memorandum to all federal prosecutors

regarding charging and sentencing policy

that once again authorizes prosecutors to charge offenses as Congress intended.

This two-page guidance instructs prosecutors to apply the laws on the books to the facts of the case in most cases and allows them to exercise discretion where a strict

application of the law would result in an injustice.

So help me understand what Jeff Sessions actual argument is because as you point out

It's very similar to an argument that you make about the war on drugs right. I might need some help understanding this argument as well.

So listeners should be familiar with this argument that one of the reasons that drug prohibition causes so much violence is because the peaceful

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