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The Effect of State Marijuana Legalizations

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Re: The Effect of State Marijuana Legalizations

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Post by fuzzywalrus »

thecrow1213 wrote: post #2

Thanks for sharing, very interesting stuff. The more unbiased studies we have like this the better.

I wouldn't refer to the Cato Institute as anything but biased, as it's a neo-con libertarian think tank funded by the Koch Brothers but this particular study is fascinating simply because it IS a neo-con libertarian think tank funded by the Koch Brothers.

Re: The Effect of State Marijuana Legalizations

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Post by runesoerensen »

> The absence of significant adverse consequences is especially striking given the sometimes dire predictions made by legalization opponents.

No kidding - let me just quote Kofi Annan's excellent essay on the subject (published a couple of months before the UN failed to course correct at UNGASS 2016):

"Nowhere is this divorce between rhetoric and reality more evident than in the formulation of global drug policies, where too often emotions and ideology rather than evidence have prevailed."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/kofi-annan-on-why-...

Re: The Effect of State Marijuana Legalizations

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Post by hackuser »

Know your source: Cato is an advocate for libertarianism, at least as envisioned by its funders, founded in part by Charles Koch, and still heavily funded and controlled by him (and I think by his brother).

I don't mean that in a partisan way; you might love them, hate them, or not care one way or the other, but it's always useful to know who is talking.

Re: The Effect of State Marijuana Legalizations

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Post by Chinjut »

fuzzywalrus wrote: post #4
thecrow1213 wrote: post #2

Thanks for sharing, very interesting stuff. The more unbiased studies we have like this the better.

I wouldn't refer to the Cato Institute as anything but biased, as it's a neo-con libertarian think tank funded by the Koch Brothers but this particular study is fascinating simply because it IS a neo-con libertarian think tank funded by the Koch Brothers.

> this particular study is fascinating simply because it IS a neo-con libertarian think tank funded by the Koch Brothers.

Of course a libertarian think tank would argue for drug legalization; that's not surprising at all. (I say this as one who also supports drug legalization, whose politics are in many ways diametrically opposite to libertarianism.)

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