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Drug-War Blindness Among Drug-War Proponents

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THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 2023
If half the American car markets is now supplied by foreign factories, it is obviously because the latter have a comparative advantage in the lines of vehicles they are selling to Americans. The destruction of this comparative advantage would mean higher costs and higher prices.
– Pierre Lemieux, “An Extreme Case of Ignorance or Something Else?” [2018]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
March 9, 2023

Drug-War Blindness Among Drug-War Proponents
Yesterday, I wrote about two American tourists who were kidnapped and killed by a drug cartel in Matamoros, Mexico. I pointed out that if it hadn’t been for the drug war, those two people would be alive today. That’s because drug prohibition gives rise to violent drug cartels. No drug war would mean no drug cartels, which would mean no drug-war …
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