On episode 66 of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast, I talked to Charles Fain Lehman about drugs and crime. I asked Charles to tell me why he’s wrong about the drug war, why marijuana is different from alcohol, whether we should ban substances to protect people from themselves, what the problem is with the “harm reduction” approach to drug-control, how bad the fentanyl crisis is, whether we talk about that crisis seriously, and why drugs are more potent now than they used to be. Afterwards, we talked about whether crime is going up or down, or whether the whole debate is partisan nonsense.

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