The Conservatives now push this policy with the same zeal as Nick Clegg – and on the same basis.
We don't know the extent to which Summers pushed this policy, but neither he nor anyone else in the Obama administration has indicated that he was opposed to it.
While the tragedy prompting the author's efforts is horrific, pushing this ineffective policy will not reduce the drunken- driving problem.
Those still pushing this wrongheaded policy should take a look at Kentucky.
But pushing this sort of policy, beyond being a logistical nightmare, can be "political suicide," says Morris Kleiner, a University of Minnesota economist who co-wrote the proposal.
Neoconservative champions of that approach – one that haunts us to this day – are now pushing this same disastrous policy with Iran, hoping that death-by-a-thousand-paper cuts will sink the Iran deal and place Washington and Tehran back on the path towards war.
"We have been pushing this argument for drug policy reform because the human rights consequences of drug policy haven't seemed to generate the interest that talking about the rainforest does – and if that's what will get their attention, I am happy to lay out the problem".
While the Liberal government was primarily focused on protecting IPRs, it was not aggressively pushing this stance in its foreign policy dealings with developing countries.
Kathryn Banakis, a junior at Yale whose organization, Student Legal Action Movement, pushed for this policy change, said she had met the school's decision "with amazement and astonishment".
