Part 1 - Introduction and Police Baiting Part 2 - The Unintended Consequences of Prohibition Part 3 - The Effect of the War on Drugs in Colombia Part 4 - The Effect of the War on Drugs in Colombia Part 5 - The Right to Choose & Legalization in Europe Part 6 - Hard Drugs & Legalization in the US
The War on Drugs, A War on Ourselves? In a 2002 special, John Stossel examines the effect of the War on Drugs on American Society. He interviews Detroit's police chief Jerry Oliver who points out that since the dealing of drugs is between willing buyers and sellers, the War on Drugs forces cops to use deceit to catch those dealing drugs. Despite all the law enforcement resources put into fighting the drug war, availably of drugs is just as high as before the drug war began. 3 Unintended Consequences are exa
Walter Williams' PBS documentary Good Intentions based on his book, The State Against Blacks (1982). The documentary was very controversial at the time it was released and led to many animosities and even threats of murder. In Good Intentions, Dr. Williams examines the failure of the war on poverty and the devastating effect of well meaning government policies on blacks asserting that the state harms people in the U.S. more than it helps them. He shows how government anti-poverty programs have often locked