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How long before someone makes the argument that the government has to deal drugs in order to afford the medicine Americans need ? The libertarian rejoinder that we can and should decriminalize pot without nationalizing health care shows more intellectual promise than popular support. And too many libertarians, I think, fantasize in the closet about a world in which big government and big business partner to deliver everyone safe recreational drugs at a price every American can afford.


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