Drug Policy, from Scratch

A debate in the pages of the Los Angeles Times

Jacob Sullum | April 25, 2008

The ideal drug policy would apply to the currently illegal intoxicants the same distinctions we routinely apply to alcohol: between children and adults, between use and abuse, between abuse that harms only the user and abuse that harms others.

Selling drugs to minors should remain illegal. But adults should be free to decide for themselves what goes into their bodies, provided they do not violate anyone else's rights in the process.

Read the whole column at LATimes.com.