John P. Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under president George W. Bush, spoke to a contentious audience about the ongoing war on drugs at the University of Chicago Sunday. The lecture was hosted by UC Republicans and the Student Government Finance Committee.
In his talk, Walters spoke mostly about the dangers of drug addiction and the importance of the criminal justice system for drug offenders.
“The view that we are victims of drugs is more than belied by the facts,” Walters said.
But in the question and answer session that followed, many students challenged Walters on his stance against marijuana legalization, contesting him on the notion that drug use could be controlled by cutting the supply and demand of the drug market.
Walters pointed to an 80 percent reduction of LSD use caused by the arrest of a centralized LSD distributor during his first years in office as evidence of how controlling the supply of a drug can reduce use.
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