Cosmo Landesman can’t meet many libertarian-minded people:
Like Mr Worstall, I do. The rest of Landesman’s article is no better informed than this.I notice that right-wing critics of the nanny state never call for the legalisation of drugs on the grounds that adults should be free to choose to be addicts or not.

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