{"id":1387,"date":"2007-07-18T13:47:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T18:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/quote-of-the-day\/07\/18\/1387\/"},"modified":"2012-12-26T16:15:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T21:15:30","slug":"1387","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/quote-of-the-day\/07\/18\/1387\/","title":{"rendered":"Save me from myself"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The proper role of the government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual\u2019s own good. The case for prohibiting drugs is exactly as strong and as weak as the case for prohibiting people from over eating. We all know that over-eating causes more deaths than drugs do.”<\/p>\n

Milton Friedman on the Drug War<\/a><\/p>\n