I work in a prison and I see this every day. Its pointless to keep fighting the war on drugs.

@judd0112

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!!! But it keeps many government agencies in business. DEA etc. and money is being made by the supposed “war” on drugs. Govt supplies contracts planes helicopters weapons,,money is being made on every single angle prison system is dependent on drug crimes mainly. They always want more prisons. Harder drug laws. Hopefully someday more logical people will prevail. The cartels will do everything in their power to stop legislation in its tracks

@judd0112

2 жыл бұрын

And your job is part of it. Less people in prison = less prisons = less prison guards. So there’s too much dependent on the so called “war on drugs “ to stop it. Ridiculous

@LibertarianUSA1982

2 жыл бұрын

@@judd0112 Many people are in prison for non-drug offenses. Also, there are secondary crimes that go along with drugs. People commit crimes to get/sell drugs. The prison population would go down but there would always be those that will break the law.

I'm so high right now and I love you Milton Friedman!

The addiction rate has stayed the same since they have kept track, legalizing will not create more addicts, the addicts are already using.

@upstateNYfinest

4 жыл бұрын

Well ill raise you this, the amount of users certainly wont decrease

@judd0112

2 жыл бұрын

Some people drink. Some people don’t drink. If they repealed the law I highly doubt people who never tried cocaine or heroin would run to the store and get some. Inner city gun violence would fall. But what would all the drugs dealer do without their favorite past time. Rob banks? Get jobs? Inwknder

What a lovely man. And so right on this. And so many other things.

The drug war was never about our safety and the drugs but like gun control it is about the control and not the drug.

Dear God, please give us Milton back... In return we will give you any number of socialists you ask for...

@fzqlcs

8 жыл бұрын

+Jaroslav Záruba I like the trade-off for sure, but what interest would God have in socialists, with thou shalt not steal and such?

Individual 'drug warriors' should be to re-compensating their victims some how... but i guess being in the government means never having to pay for your crimes.

@worfsonofmogh1154

8 жыл бұрын

freefallfalcon True dat. Sort of like how highest crime days of the year are on Friday's when people are getting their pay checks. But it's the government so they can take your money by force.

@johnbrown92

8 жыл бұрын

freefallfalcon Yep and their excuse is always "I was just doing what I was told to do" I think we heard that over and over when they hung Nazis.

@worfsonofmogh1154

8 жыл бұрын

John Brown Nah, if we got to that point we would be winning over the statists. They just think they'll "helping society" or some such rubbish, but take your point.

He'd hate what happened in Colorado. High barriers to entry by way of licensing and background checks basically prevent the "guy on the corner" from becoming a legitimate entrepreneur and virtually ensure a near monopoly for the wealthy & connected plus ridiculously high prices.

@bert88sta

5 жыл бұрын

True shit, how are we gonna let the Monopoly on drugs not even benefit the people who were wrongfully imprisoned? Bad idea

"I do not think it is moral to impose heavy costs on other people - to protect people from their own choices" 4:38

Thomas, your statement on who would want to have a drug dealer living next to them is created by the war on drugs. If drugs are legalized, the drug dealers are replaced by legitimate business. The dirt ball drug dealers are gone. Second, people can grow their own and by pass business and the now current dealers. We could take a fraction of the dollars we are spending on the war on drugs and direct it to rehab, prevention, and education.

@luvwaltdisney1

8 жыл бұрын

You took the words right out of my mouth :)

Thanks for uploading a high-quality version of this fantastic set of interviews with Friedman.

We are experimenting with some of these ideas right now. It would be great if we could get some commentary from Milton today.

It's absolutely hilarious how popular the other Milton Friedman videos are insanely popular with hundreds of thousands of views and people in the comments sections are praising him immensely, yet this one has hardly any views and people pretend like it doesn't exist. Boy, it sure is funny how modern conservatives like to cherry pick.

@MrJason005

3 жыл бұрын

@Flip Arrachi What makes you think I'm a "liberal"?

@maxwell2231

3 жыл бұрын

this is one of this more centrist standpoints

@zachjohnson637

2 жыл бұрын

@@maxwell2231 Not centrist. It's a libertarian stance that is consistent with the rest of his views.

It's weird to hear him say Trump's name

@moeborougerdi5364

5 жыл бұрын

I heard the Trump's name too! This was back in 1991, why did he brought his name back then?

@janterrirocks

4 жыл бұрын

​@@moeborougerdi5364 Because Donald Trump was famous(at least here in the States) back then too.

8:12 Milton jokes about laws restricting what people eat...

I just randomly came across this video. I don't do drugs and I don't condone doing drugs and I prefer people not to do drugs. I agree with this gentleman. this is a video that need to be shard on face book so please shar.

What's the holdup? Buy out the private prisons and convert them to rehabilitation centers.

Is the complete interview available?

militon friedman has probably smoked a joint before the hood loves u man

Very interesting presentation. I have to agree with Milton Friedman's views. I don't really know if he is right or wrong, but like I said, very interesting viewpoint.

Unfortunately our government refuses to listen to reason and continues down an unsustainable path. The government is in a perpetual state of being “ban” happy. Maybe for the same reasons the FDA was slow at approving drugs. Just don’t want to be blamed. I was in a country where pot was decriminalized. It was an interesting few weeks watching mostly young people enjoy their new liberties out in public, but after a while things just went back to normal.

one word... Fentanyl

The Drug War is long over and the government has lost. Time for it to move on to offering treatment and help for the addict.

He was right

Also true is that the CIA helped fund our proxy allies in countries like Latin America, Vietnam, Burma and Afghanistan through support of the drug trafficking. The Nicaraguan contra traffickers (with the full support of the CIA), for example, brought a lot of the cocaine that destroyed poor black neighborhoods in San Francisco and LA

He died in 2006 @ 95 yrs. Sadly we lost a major intelligent voice. END PROHIBITION AMERICA!!

Even good old miltons talking about trump! He's everywhere!

while i agree with friedman on a number of viewpoints, i have to disagree with him here-to an extent. we can surely give people the freedom to choose if they want to abuse drugs but who wants to have the dealer living next to them or in their neighborhood? also, what if a dealer wants to take out a competing dealer? they're not exactly going to do it in a polite manner.

@deponensvogel7261

7 жыл бұрын

thomas perez Wtf there would be no dealers. You didn't get how the free market works, I think.

@MattNorth9811

3 жыл бұрын

In a free market, there wouldn't be drug dealers. There would be legal companies who can rely on the government to protect them from violence. When drugs are illegal, drug dealers can't go to the law if there products are stolen, and they can't hope to protect their products from every single person who wants to steal so they have to give an extremely tough image to deter people from trying to take their products. They need a reputation for severely punishing even the slightest infraction. Hence the need to be confrontational, and even to do premptive strikes, especially if you are worried about another cartel getting more power than you. There is also the natural incentive to violently eliminate competition. None of this would exist under a state that legalizes the sale of drugs. If a cartel tried to attack a legitimate buisness that sold drugs the government would crush them. The problem is that the government will tax legal companies to death, which raises the prices and allows the cartels to continue selling at less expensive prices.

@cknut9252

9 ай бұрын

Would you have a problem if an AnheuserBush distributor was in your neighborhood? How about Jack Daniels? People travel to see the distillery & brewery tours. When you have legal drugs the neighborhood improves.

really hope i just imagined him supporting that saudi method cause he made sense otherwise and i shared.

Saudi Arabia can't even stop drugs.

It is amusing to hear him compare Mother Teresa to Trump.

Drunks are voting and operating automobiles and not affecting only themselves through their bad habits. Decriminalizing drugs won't magically make things better, it will lead to more regulation and not downsize government in the slightest.

@deponensvogel7261

7 жыл бұрын

Levi Paladin In what way could you be more regulated than by not being allowed to ingest the substance I want to? Take a little logic into the equation.

@LeviPaladin

7 жыл бұрын

Deponensvogel Very well, logic. Is there any situation in which an individual should not be allowed to operate a space shuttle?

@deponensvogel7261

7 жыл бұрын

Levi Paladin For example when one is drunk, high, mentally fragile or has never learnt to operate it. In what way does this exemplify your point? Is it more regulations if I'm not allowed to be drunk at work and whilst driving, or if I'm not allowed to be drunk at all?

@LeviPaladin

7 жыл бұрын

Deponensvogel You seem to be making an argument that I haven't. We agree that there are some situations where being impaired is not right.

@deponensvogel7261

7 жыл бұрын

Levi Paladin So what's your point?

A Donald Trump plug. Haha