Narconomics

The truth is that buying and taking illegal drugs probably won’t kill you. But it may very well kill someone else. Cocaine, for instance, is manufactured and exported exclusively by cartels that use murder and torture as part of their business model.

Prison is fabulously expensive. Sending a teenager to jail costs more than it would to send him to Eton College,

taxpayer may not like paying for criminals’ lunches, but beans are cheaper than metal detectors.