Got it, thanks.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/images/june00/harrybrowne.jpg Q: You have some interesting views on the war on drugs.
A: The war on drugs is a disaster. It has elevated drug use. Drug use is far greater than it was when the drug war began in earnest in the late 1960s. It has turned the drug business away from the pharmaceutical companies and put it in the hands of the illegal drug dealers in the cities. These people have no concern for your children. Pharmaceutical companies would not send representatives to school yards to hook kids on drugs. Criminal gangs have no qualms about it whatsoever. Criminal gangs settle their problems with gang violence and drive-by shootings. Pharmaceutical companies don’t do that. Criminal gangs terrorize our cities.
Q: How would that be reversed by legalizing drugs?
A: Bayer used to sell heroin as a pain reliever and sedative. Nobody thought it was a danger. Before the First World War, a 10-year old child could walk into a drugstore and buy heroin. They didn’t because they didn’t have an interest in it. It wasn’t forbidden fruit. They didn’t want to go behind the barn to see what is was all about and nobody was pushing it on them.
Q: Isn’t there a role for reasonable regulation of the sale of drugs to minors?
A: When you pass laws against consensual activities, whether for adults or children, you never get the result you want. When the drug war ends, which I think will happen in the next five years, I hope the federal government will stay completely out of it and different states will pass different laws. Perhaps all states will ban it for children. I don’t think that’s the best thing to do. It will have some perverse results. And some children will probably die. When you buy a legal drug, you know what it is. You don’t take an overdose by mistake. Heroin, incidentally, is not a particularly addictive drug.
http://www.detnews.com/EDITPAGE/0010/06/oped/oped.htm ", I hope the federal government will stay completely out of it and different states will pass different laws. Perhaps all states will ban it for children."
Looks to me like he is more for the 9th and 10th than he is for making it available to children. His statement says that it is up to the states, he would support that, but in his opinion a total ban is not the best thing.
Doesn't look to me like he is FOR selling DRUGS to CHILDREN.
