Was Milton Friedman Wrong?

How decriminalisation made Vancouver the fentanyl capital of the world

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/vancouver-opioid-crisis-drug-addiction-british-columbia-canada/

The city is gripped in an opioid crisis worse than America’s. Locals say overly liberal drug laws have sparked a catastrophe

 

Oregon recriminalises hard drugs after huge increase in overdose deaths

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/04/02/oregon-recriminalises-hard-drugs-after-overdose-deaths/

Milton Friedman Interview from 1991 on America’s War on Drugs
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/milton-friedman-interview-from-1991-on-americas-war-on-drugs/
Related:
https://miltonfriedman.hoover.org/internal/media/dispatcher/214907/full