The case for prohibiting drugs is exactly as strong and as weak as the case for prohibiting people from overeating. - Milton Friedman

No arbitrary obstacles should prevent people from achieving those positions for which their talents fit them and which their values lead them to seek. Not birth, nationality, color, religion, sex, nor any other irrelevant characteristic should determine the opportunities that are open to a person — only his abilities.

The major disadvantage of the proposed negative income tax is its political implications. It establishes a system under which taxes are imposed on some to pay subsidies to others. And presumably, these others have a vote.

Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement.