[Physicist]

Read "Give Me a Break" for his absurd hypothesis.

I read it cover-to-cover, and what you say is simply false.

Stossel no more believes that ALL drug problems will be solved by ending the WOD than he believes all alcohol problems were solved by ending prohibition. But ending prohibition sure solved most of them.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

What I said is not false, so please don't imply that I am lying.

Stossel claims that if we legalize drugs and put the government in charge of regulating them, the fees and taxes associated with the legal purchase would be ample to cover the cost of rehab.

I suppose he doesn't claim it will solve ALL the problems, but his claim is that essentially it will eliminate the major problems we have now.

Incidentally, it seems a tad hypocritical for someone who claims to be anti big government to support a bureaucracy that will have to get its tentacles into everything from unemployment, to rehab, to intervention, to health care and health insurance.

It's one the reasons I stopped reading his works and listening to his television spots--that and the number of times he has screwed up his facts and had to issue disclaimers.