#72: The War on Drugs
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The War on Drugs Is Over, Is It Really Legitimate?
The US spends 51 billion dollars on the war on drugs every year. Yet, allows pharmaceutical companies to make billions by selling other legal drugs to its citizens. Legal opioids are now the greatest gateway drugs to stronger things like heroin. A study back in 2010 from the Libertarian Cato Institute suggested that adding a tax to illegal drugs could raise almost $50 billion in taxes every year.
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