Illegal Drugs | Arguments for Legalizing Drugs Are Specious

When high priests of America’s political right and left as articulate as William F. Buckley Jr., founding editor of National Review, and Anthony Lewis, a columnist for the New York Times Op-Ed page, peddle the same drug legalization line, it’s time to shout caveat emptor—let the buyer beware. For the boomlet to legalize drugs like heroin, cocaine and marijuana that they—and magazines like National Review and New York—are trying to seed among the right and left ends of the political spectrum, is founded in fiction, not fact. And it’s our children who could...

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