Drugs AND Tendency to monopoly

[Chris M. Sciabarra]

Adam raises some very good points about the legalization of drugs, which, 
by the way, ties in very nicely with our growing discussion on the 
"Tendency to Monopoly."  It is precisely PROHIBITIONISM which leads to 
monopoly profits and cartellization in the drug industry, as it has in 
every other regulated and/or black market.  The drug problem is indeed, 
social, and no prohibitionism will end the scourge.  If only we'd 
recognize the same tendencies at work in the rest of the economy, since 
political factors are crucially important in the genesis of ALL coercive 
monopolies.
					- Chris
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Dr. Chris M. Sciabarra
Visiting Scholar, NYU Department of Politics
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