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This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, December 31st, 2019.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The Cato Institute in association with the Brookings Institution has launched Sphere, the project aimed at setting a gold standard

for the public discussion of often contentious policy issues.

As a preview I'm presenting to you our first episode.

This one of the simple question,

should drug prohibition be ended nationwide.

Enjoy.

If Americans can agree on nothing else,

we should at least agree that much of the bitterness and tribalism that is driving

our public policy discourse today is unhealthy for our country.

The aim of this project of the Cato Institute and the Brookings Institution is to establish a gold standard for public

discussions of policy issues.

To be clear, just because we're lowering the temperature on these discussions doesn't mean that we're abandoning deeply held ideas.

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