The Early Leader for 'Most Hysterical, Absurd, Idiotic Drug Prohibition Article of the Year' Award

David Freddoso, writing in AFF's Brainwash, has all the angles on why Prohibition is such a great thing. Reasons why I'm apparently naive in 5, 4, 3...

It is, again, naïve to compare, as some do, hard drugs to alcohol, as if the intoxicating effects and addictive qualities are equivalent. This flies in the face of all societal experience, considering the sharp increase in crime during New York's crack years of the 1980s. Considering that nearly everyone drinks, and such a small percentage of drinkers cause a problem, the benefits of alcohol to society appear far greater than the drawbacks. People certainly do stupid things when drunk, but they usually require hours of drinking before they can begin to approach the irrational, violent state of someone who has spent 90 seconds smoking crack.

Finally, it is naïve to believe that legalization will suddenly end the violence that surrounds the drug trade. It is true that the actors within that terrible world may stop killing each other over drugs, but nor will they suddenly get jobs and become productive members of society. Like all clever entrepreneurs, they will find another means to do what they do best -- provide illegal services at a premium -- whether it be human trafficking, kidnapping, pimping, weapons sales, hacking and bank fraud, tax-free drugs, or some still unforeseen method of profiting at the expense of society.

Just absurd. While to some extent I appreciate Freddoso's fearless ability to swim upstream against the overwhemlming torrent of facts and history, it's ridiculous that an organization like AFF -- which claims to wish to build a bridge between libertarians and conservatives -- sees fit to publish such tripe. Freddoso, you're dead to me!

More here.

Update: Reasonably good dialogue started over at AFF. I and others commented, Freddoso replied, I replied and await Freddoso's response.