Ep. 456 What Went Wrong with Oregon’s Drug Decriminalization?
Reason producer Zach Weissmueller joins Bob for a tough but informative discussion on why rolling back the drug war is more nuanced than what many libertarians might believe. Zach produced a documentary and just debated at the SoHo Forum on why Oregon’s drug decriminalization was overturned.
Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:
- The YouTube version of this interview.
- Zach Weismueller’s post-decrim documentary.
- The SoHo Forum debate on Oregon’s decrim experiment.
- The link for the New American magazine.
- Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
About the author, Robert
Christian and economist, Chief Economist at infineo, and Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute.
I think I can find something to nitpick!
Bob Said, “If it [decrim didn’t work there..”
…by what metric? Are you *accepting* the Coasian standard? What happened to the Rothbardian rights perspective.
In the praxeological view, decriminalization *always* works. It always ends the fraudulent labeling of a non-crime as a crime.