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Does That Make John Walters the New Lester Maddox?

Jacob Sullum | 7.5.2006 2:56 PM


Ira Glasser, former executive director of the ACLU and current chairman of the Drug Policy Alliance's board, argues in The Nation that drug prohibition is the new Jim Crow.

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).