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The War on Drugs vs. the War on Terror

Jacob Sullum | 1.12.2005 1:47 PM

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Over at Slate, Christopher Hitchens explains why the destabilizing force to worry about in Afghanistan is not opium but the war on opium.

[Thanks to Linda Stewart for the link.]

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Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason. He is the author, most recently, of Beyond Control: Drug Prohibition, Gun Regulation, and the Search for Sensible Alternatives (Prometheus Books).

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