I congratulated him and offered whatever support I could. He was an extremely intelligent and thoughtful person. He vacuumed up information at an enormous rate and articulated it beautifully. It's that there is absolutely nothing right with it. Drug prohibition does exactly the opposite of what it was intended to do.
Drug prohibition creates violence.
It creates more addicts. It creates more dysfunction in society. Puder argued that as long as drugs are illegal, politicians will destroy the integrity of the police by forcing them to break the law to enforce it. Puder believed that there would always be a demand for drugs, and that making them illegal just drives the profits up. When there are huge profits to be made, the drug traffic continues.