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O'Grady and I disagree about what ought to be done. She favors decriminalization, whereas I believe the centuries-long long process of deciding which drugs are illegal was mostly a reasonable one, and our prejudices against certain drugs are part of that civilizational heritage that Professor Bloom wrote about. However, whatever you think about how the laws ought to be, here and now in the real world, drugs are illegal. Here and now in the real world, their use has corrosive and deadly consequences abroad. Here and now in the real world, using and selling cocaine is an act of supreme and dangerous arrogance.

Colleges won't let their own students carry guns. But without a strong moral (gasp!) stand against campus drug use and policies to back it up, they're giving guns to Mexico's cartels. Cheers to Stephen Weber for bucking the trend, and for exercising rare judgment and discrimination.

Clinton W. Taylor recently completed his Ph.D. at Stanford, writing his dissertation on international drug trafficking.

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