Once upon a time, a real estate developer named Donald Trump understood the folly of the war on drugs.

“We’re losing badly the war on drugs,” he said at a luncheon held by the Miami Herald in April 1990. “You have to legalize drugs to win that war. You have to take the profit away from these drug czars.”

The Associated Press further noted, “He blamed the country’s current drug problems on politicians who ‘don’t have any guts.’”

Trump arrived at this provocative conclusion during the violent and destructive crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and early 1990s.

He certainly wasn’t alone in this view.

In 1991, the great economist Milton Friedman explained in an interview with Randy Paige that what America was experiencing was essentially the same as what happened during America’s experime

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