Quote by: Milton Friedman

Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons


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Author Bio


  • NameMilton Friedman
  • DescriptionAmerican economist, statistician, and writer
  • BornJuly 31, 1912
  • DiedNovember 16, 2006
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEconomist; Writer; Statistician
  • AwardsNobel Memorial Prize In Economic Sciences; National Medal Of Science; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Adam Smith Award