Ross Ulbricht—who was serving a life sentence over a conviction for running a dark web illicit drug market before being pardoned by President Donald Trump—is making the case that legalizing all drugs is a superior policy to prohibition, telling a roomful of conservatives at a conference that criminalization should end even if it’s “not necessarily what you want to hear.”
During a speech before Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit (SAS) on Saturday, Ulbricht gave a forceful argument in support of legalization, referencing the failures of alcohol prohibition and the criminal activity that policy created and explaining the need for personal accountability over government-sanctioned criminalization.
While many people might reasonably prefer to see illicit drugs wiped out altogether from society, Ulbricht stressed that it isn’t a feasible option and “making drugs illegal and throwing people in prison for it is also not the answer.”
“We’ve been trying it for a long time—getting it wrong,” he said.
“So what do we do? It’s complicated, right? I’ll give you an example,” the former federal prisoner said. “There is a harmful, addictive drug that most of you have already tried. It’s called alcohol. Alcohol is legal. It’s sold in bars and grocery stores—and as
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