Rufus G. King
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Rufus G. King
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Rufus G. King was the chairman of the American Bar Association Committee on Narcotics and an opponent of drug policy in the United States. His was an early critic Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (1914) and his arguments on the effects of the act influenced the historians that followed. He described the effect of the act as: "Exit the addict-patient, enter the addict-criminal." His published work in Yale Law Journal said that drug policy promoted the illicit drug trade by keeping prices high. He was c
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2024-08-14T09:35:13Z
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2024-09-01T01:19:01Z
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