John Stossel on Why the War on Drugs Is Worse Than NSA Spying

As Americans obsess over NSA spying, abuse by the IRS and other assaults on our freedom, John Stossel can't get his mind off the thousand other ways politicians abuse us. Some of the things they do seem like bigger assaults on our freedom than NSA spying, he argues, although we've become accustomed to the older abuses. Take the drug war.
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