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I'd Rather Entrust The Government Of The United States To The First 400 People Listed In The Boston Telephone Directory Than To The Faculty Of Harvard University.

Even If One Takes Every Reefer Madness Allegation Of The Prohibitionists At Face Value, Marijuana Prohibition Has Done Far More Harm To Far More People Than Marijuana Ever Could.

Only Government Can Cause Inflation, Preserve Monopoly, And Punish Enterprise.

They Are Men And Women Who Tend To Believe That The Human Being Is Perfectible And Social Progress Predictable, And That The Instrument For Effecting The Two Is Reason; That Truths Are Transitory And Empirically Determined; That Equality Is Desirable And Attainable Through The Action Of State Power; That Social And Individual Differences, If They Are Not Rational, Are Objectionable, And Should Be Scientifically Eliminated; That All People And Societies Strive To Organize Themselves Upon A Rationalist And Scientific Paradigm.

Now It Is One Thing To Say I Say It That People Shouldn't Consume Psychoactive Drugs. It Is Entirely Something Else To Condone Marijuana Laws, The Application Of Which Resulted, In 1995, In The Arrest Of 588,963 Americans. Why Are We So Afraid To Inform Ourselves On The Question?