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See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

Milton Friedman
War, Drug Cartels, Government
"Friedman & Szasz On Liberty and Drugs". Interview with Randy Paige on "America's Drug Forum", www.druglibrary.org. 1991.
See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.