After spending 20 mins trying to log in (when did life becoming nothing but a series of log ins?) I finally got to the Wall Street Journal article everyone is pinging me about, in which Mary O’Grady quotes Mises. Indeed the article opens with the following Mises quote:
“It is an established fact that alcoholism, cocainism, and morphinism are deadly enemies of life, of health, and of the capacity for work and enjoyment; and a utilitarian must therefore consider them as vices. But this is far from demonstrating that the authorities must interpose to suppress these vices by commercial prohibitions, nor is it by any means evident that such intervention on the part of the government is really capable of suppressing them or that, even if this end could be attained, it might not therewith open up a Pandora’s box of other dangers, no less mischievous than alcoholism and morphinism.”
The rest raises questions about the drug war, but the best part is Mises, which you can read here without logging in.
