What Charles Fain Lehman thinks about America
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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2 dated positions, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Charles Fain Lehman has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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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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Our readingAfter 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