It was after all leaving for more because the university of chicago such as noble laureates Milton Friedman using simple rules of supply and demand who most forcefully pointed out the fragility of prohibition. This approach was ago by none other than one of latin americas most renowned and into his recent drug warriors, former mexican president Lupe Calderon took he acknowledged the failure of his own drug policies. The end of the term in 2012 he told the wall street journal the following, if the price of drugs goes up thanks largely to interdiction efforts and that demand is the same you will increased profits for your putting more incentives for participants in the market. He went on to say that it is clearly a textbook case for Economic System which is the more successful you are, the more criminals you are creating. This is precisely what the world drugs have been doing for over 40 years. Tom wainwright writes prohibition has driven up the price of a few cheap and cultural commodit
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Affordability, tax reform and health care. This is live coverage on cspan2. For those of you out there who want to comment on twitter the hashtag is sanders brookings, thats at, not the sign. I want to say at the outset before i do the formal part of the introduction that it is a pleasure to welcome a selfdescribed proud democratic socialist here to brookings. You know these days the word socialist is thrown around as an end that the, and the socialists i know are insulted when president obamas called a socialist because they argue he is too moderate to be a democratic socialist. But the thing we forget is the vibrancy of the democratic socialist tradition in the United States. And bear in mind were talking democratic, small d socialist ie scandinavia not the old soviet union. And in the american tradition were talking about people from eugene debs to Michael Thomas to people like Barbara Aaron right. This is a lively american tradition that has influenced policy in our country in a gr
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] welcome good morning, everybody. Im john walsh, im with the Washington Office unlike america and its my behalf or to want me to this mornings event on the International Impact of the u. S. Trend towards Marijuana Legalization. This is the sixth event in the brookings series on Legal Marijuana. It again in october 2012 with an eye to what might happen if, in fact, the states of colorado and washington voted to approve Legal Marijuana. In fact, that it happened. Weve had a series of events since then about federalism issues, about public opinion, and have published a cities of papers including two recent papers on the rollout of Legal Marijuana in the states of colorado and washington. Todays topic is going to be what are the International Impacts of this shift within the United States, especially given the fact that the United States was the chief architect and has for decades been the prime defend of the u. N
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