Video of 1991 extracted from PROGRM "American Forum on Drugs", a televised national debate on public issues that is issued (or emitted) on public television. Randy Paige is a journalist specializing in drug deal in Baltimore, Maryland, Emmy Award winner, Professor Milton Friedman was a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford since 1977 and is considered the leader economic monetarist school of Chicago. Professor Friedman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976 and has also received the National Medal of Science and the Presidential Medal of Freedom U.S. Government. in 1988.

Phrases

Under prohibition of alcohol, alcohol poisoning deaths, things that mingled with the bootleg alcohol, rose sharply. Similarly, under drug prohibition has increased overdose deaths, adulteration or adulterated substances.

The effect of criminalization, to make illegal drugs, is to lead people of soft drugs to hard.

The drug prohibition produces, on average, ten thousand homicides a year. It is a moral problem that the government causes the death of ten thousand people. It is a moral problem that the government criminalizing people.

I do not think that legalization should be considered mainly as a way of helping the poor. Legalization is a way to avoid (as citizens in our forum) that the government use our power to engage in immoral behavior that kills people, taking life without people in the U.S.., Colombia and elsewhere.

I do not care about drugs, but the government do something about them.