Harvard Economist: Legalizing Drugs Suits Ideal of American Freedom (Spiegel)
Harvard University professor Jeffrey Miron has advocated the legalization of drugs for decades. In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview, he explains why prohibition is more dangerous than selling drugs in supermarkets.
SPIEGEL: Why isn't anyone putting your suggestions into practice?
Miron: Many thousands of people working in government posts would lose their jobs as a result of legalization. The rehab centers would lose a lot of customers because many of the people in rehab were forced to go there by the judicial system. The people who build prisons also have an interest in there being large numbers of inmates. In addition to that, the church doesn't like drugs and the church is powerful in America.
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Re: Harvard Economist: Legalizing Drugs Suits Ideal of American Freedom (Spiegel)
Gore Vidal, a gay American writer (The City and the Pillar, 1948), supported the decriminalization of all drugs. Vidal always succeeded in enraging American conservatives and all other types of reactionaries, including christian fanatics, etc, etc.
Edward
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Harvard University professor Jeffrey Miron has advocated the legalization of drugs for decades. In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview, he explains why prohibition is more dangerous than selling drugs in supermarkets.
SPIEGEL: Why isn't anyone putting your suggestions into practice?
Miron: Many thousands of people working in government posts would lose their jobs as a result of legalization. The rehab centers would lose a lot of customers because many of the people in rehab were forced to go there by the judicial system. The people who build prisons also have an interest in there being large numbers of inmates. In addition to that, the church doesn't like drugs and the church is powerful in America.
read the entire article at Spiegel Online:
https://www.spiegel.de/international...-a-886289.html
Re: Harvard Economist: Legalizing Drugs Suits Ideal of American Freedom (Spiegel)
Gore Vidal was also an early intactivist, although that term had not yet been invented. In his 1968 novel Myra Breckinridge (made into a campy movie in 1970), he described the bizarre American 20th century practice of "routine" circumcision of male babies and identified the misandry and attempt to control/reduce male sexual pleasure behind it:
Until the Forties, only the upper or educated classes were circumcised in America. The real people were spared this humiliation. But during the affluent postwar years, the operation became standard procedure, making money for doctors as well as allowing the American mother to mutilate her son in order that he might never forget her early power over him. Today only the poor Boston Irish, the Midwestern Poles and the Appalacian Southerners can be counted upon to be complete.
“Myron never forgave Gertrude for her circumcision of him. In fact, he once denounced her in my presence for it. She defended herself by saying that the doctor had recommended it on hygienic grounds — which, of course, does not hold water since most foreskins are easily manipulated and kept clean. What is truly sinister is the fact that with the foreskin’s removal, up to fifty percent of sensation in the glans penis is reduced… a condition no doubt as pleasing to the puritan American mother as it is to her co-conspirator, the puritan Jewish doctor who delights in being able to mutilate the goyim in the same vivid way that his religion (and mother!) mutilated him.
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