Restrict Asset Forfeiture
“Through their impact on property rights, the drug forfeiture laws have already eroded fundamental freedoms. The fact that this has occurred so easily, with barely a whimper of protest from the courts and virtually no opposition from thoughtful commentators, gives real credence to [Milton] Friedman’s warnings about where the war on drugs may take us.”
STEFAN B. HERPEL
“UNITED STATES V. ONE ASSORTMENT OF 89 FIREARMS”
MAY 1990
ELIZABETH YOUNG’S SON was arrested in 2010 after selling $90 of marijuana on the front porch of her Pennsylvania home. At the time,
