https://www.thefp.com/p/dont-free-ross-ulbricht-clemency-trump?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
One of Ulbricht’s libertarian defenders, Reason senior editor Jacob Sullum, thinks he never should have been jailed, writing earlier this week: “no one should go to prison for facilitating peaceful transactions among consenting adults.
If you think that headline is an accurate description of my position, I invite you to check out what I have written about the war on drugs during the last three or four decades, which includes much discussion of its disparate racial impact. I have just completed a book, Beyond Control, that explores this theme at length. But maybe you were referring to Trump's attitude, which I agree is completely incoherent: https://reason.com/2023/10/24/trump-who-freed-drug-offenders-also-wants-to-kill-them/
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