MEDIA ROOTS – Reporting From Outside Party Lines » DRUG POLICY http://mediaroots.org Sat, 15 Jul 2023 22:24:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 Glenn Greenwald vs. Bush Drug Czar http://mediaroots.org/janus-forum-should-the-us-legalize-drugs/ http://mediaroots.org/janus-forum-should-the-us-legalize-drugs/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:19:59 +0000 http://localhost/mediaroots/janus-forum-should-the-us-legalize-drugs/ Read More]]>

SALON — Glenn Greenwald:  Last Thursday at Brown University, I debated former Bush drug czar John Walters on the virtues of drug legalization, and the video is below. The aspect of With Liberty and Justice for Some that has received the most attention is the shield of immunity for elite lawbreaking, but the other side of that rule-of-law evisceration — the incomparably harsh and sprawling penal state America has created for its ordinary citizens — is at least as important, and it is the Drug War that personifies the worst abuses of that punishment system and accounts for much of it.

Read more about Debating Bush’s drug czar on legalization.

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Glenn Greenwald vs. John Waters on Drug Legalization

 

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