Legality of the War on Drugs

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Several authors have put forth arguments concerning the legality of the war on drugs. In his essay The Drug War and the Constitution,^[1] libertarian philosopher Paul Hager makes the case that the War on Drugs in the United States is an illegal form of prohibition, which violates the principles of a limited government embodied in the United States Constitution.