Charles Fain Lehman
Fellow at the Manhattan Institute working on crime, drugs and disorder, and author of the newsletter The Causal Fallacy. Writes in favour of enforcement and prohibition on empirical rather than moral grounds.
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Their wordsWhat’s fallacious is to argue that this fact necessarily means the prohibition does not “work,” or is not better than legalization.
↗The Black Markets Fallacythecausalfallacy.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsQuantity consumed under prohibition is almost always smaller than quantity consumed under legalization.
↗The Black Markets Fallacythecausalfallacy.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 9 months earlier
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Their wordsIt turns out that simply getting people into temporary shelter—often derided by the homelessness-industrial complex as a band-aid—significantly reduces both social and individual harms of unsheltered homelessness.
↗You Don't Have to End Homelessness To Make Cities Saferthecausalfallacy.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsRead this in the context of Christopher et al., and the reasonable conclusion is that many of the problems associated with homelessness are the result of unsheltered homelessness.
↗You Don't Have to End Homelessness To Make Cities Saferthecausalfallacy.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsYears of reform mean that almost everyone who can be diverted from Rikers already is.
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Their wordsDrug offenders never accounted for a particularly large fraction of the U.S. prison population, peaking at about 22 percent of state prisoners in 1990.
↗What Was The War on Drugs? Part Vthecausalfallacy.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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After two decades of the war on drugs, drugs were cheaper and more potent than when it began.
Their wordsAfter two decades of the War on Drugs, in other words, drugs were much cheaper and more potent than they were when the War on Drugs began.
↗What Was The War on Drugs? Part Vthecausalfallacy.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBut by the available evidence, the War on Drugs was far less successful at reducing use among the “hard core” of users, mostly meaning people addicted to their drug of choice.
↗What Was The War on Drugs? Part Vthecausalfallacy.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece