
Session 4: Does the Regulatory State Fuel Populism?
Cato Event Podcast
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The Relationship Between the Opioid Crisis and Populism
There's plenty of evidence that american trust and institutions of all kinds have gone down in recent decades. Jeff was very confused about what the relation was meant to be between the opioid crisis and populism for any definition of populism, he said. He also wondered if it would have much effect on whether the federal government was enforcing marijuana laws in states that legalized marijuana but then third I'm just curious of your perspective on the libertarian view about the opioid crisis which is it was caused by government by restricting access to opioids which drives people to buy them underground where they're laced with unknown quantities of fentanyl and things like that.
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