Tom Campbell, Milton Friedman, and Marijuana

Tom Campbell	Tom's mentor, Milton Friedman

Currently, no mainstream candidate for Governor of California in 2010 supports legalizing marijuana.^[*] However, Tom Campbell may be the first to change his mind.

Tom is extremely smart. He used to be a professor of economics at Stanford University. When Tom was a doctoral student at the University of Chicago, his thesis supervisor was Professor Milton Friedman, who won the Nobel prize for economics in 1976.

Milton Friedman was one of the most brilliant economists of the 20th century and a strong believer in freedom and individual liberty. He was an outspoken critic of the war on drugs, calling it America's worst policy mistake.

Tom recently wrote an article on his web site about his close relationship with Milton Friedman in which Tom praised his former teacher as a champion of freedom and individual liberty. Tom is running his campaign on these core values as well the on the principle of smaller government.

To his credit, Tom has been a long time supporter of medical marijuana. However, Tom opposes legalizing marijuana for adult recreational use.

Tom's position that marijuana should remain illegal stands in direct contradiction to his core values of freedom, individual liberty, and smaller government. Marijuana prohibition leads to less freedom, less individual liberty, and bigger government. Milton Friedman, Tom's mentor, would be appalled.

Write to Tom Campbell and ask him what freedom and individual liberty mean to him when it comes to marijuana prohibition. Which does Tom Campbell value more: marijuana prohibition or individual liberty? What does Tom Campbell understand about the war on marijuana that his brilliant teacher, Milton Friedman, was never able to grasp?