Re: Legalize Drugs - say Nobel prize winner & top judge

Jasbird wrote:

<http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/03/the_failure_of.html>

Gary Becker
- 1992 Nobel prize in economics.

Richard A. Posner
- US 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge
- Senior Lecturer, Univ. Chicago Law School


Thanks for the interesting link. Some other notable people who have
advocated drug legalization include:

Milton Friedman, Nobel prize in economics 1976.

Kurt Schmoke, elected Baltimore mayor in 1987, graduate of Yale
University and a Rhodes Scholar.

Joseph D. McNamara, former chief of police in Kansas City, Mo., and San
Jose, Calif., doctorate in public administration from Harvard, author of
four books on policing and currently a research fellow at the Hoover
Institution.

William. F. Buckley Jr., noted conservative author, publisher, and
columnist.

Robert Sweet, former District Judge in New York City, Assistant U.S.
Attorney, and Deputy Mayor of New York City. Graduate of Yale and of
Yale Law School.

Dr. Thomas Szasz, professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Syracuse
University.

Ethan A. Nadelmann, formerly in the Political Science Department at
Princeton, now the director of the Lindesmith Center New York.

Steven B. Duke, Professor of Law of Science and Technology at Yale Law
School.

George Shultz, former President Reagan's Secretary of State.

Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders

Professor Leslie Iversen, Professor of Pharmacology, Oxford University,
author of "The Science of Marijuana"

The list could be extended at some length.


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