Showing posts with label black market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black market. Show all posts

Jonah Bennett: Legal US Weed Is Killing The Drug Cartels

The free market will always defeat the black market.    The growth of the U.S. marijuana industry has devastated drug cartels in Mexico, evidenced by fewer seizures of cannabis at the border and, according to Mexican security forces, a drop in total homicides and domestic marijuana production rates. Mexican drug cartels     ... MORE

A Search Engine That Brings The Dark Web To Light

by Mark Stockley.      The Dark Web is reflecting a little more light these days. On Monday I wrote about Memex, DARPA's Deep Web search engine. Memex is a sophisticated tool set that has been in the hands of a few select law enforcement agencies for a year now, but it isn't available to regular users like you and me. There is another search engine  ... MORE

Unintended (But Predictable) Consequences Of Drug War

by Radley Balko.     Another drug war success: Meth is cheaper, more potent than ever, and it’s all coming in through international drug cartels. But hey, at least we’ve made life difficult for allergy sufferers and arrested the occasional innocent parent or grandparent along the way. Meanwhile in Britain, an MDMA crackdown has given rise   ... MORE

Limited Access To Hydrocodone Pushes Abusers To Heroin

Unintended consequences of DEA dictating health care.  After the DEA ruled to make hydrocodone a schedule two drug, some health officials became concerned abusers would find more dangerous ways to feed their addiction. Now that hydrocodone isn't easily accessible, those who abused it aren't able to meet their addiction needs,    ... MORE

Robert W. Wood: Who Shares In Marijuana Taxes?

Will gov't tax drive pot back to the black market?   Taxes on marijuana are big, and it’s easy to see why. A discussion about legalizing marijuana often segues into one about tax revenues. Marijuana for medical use is legal in 23 states and the District of Columbia. Recreational marijuana is legal in DC and in four states, Colorado,      ... MORE

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Drugs And Prostitutes Help Bring Italy Out Of Recession

by Shane Ferro.   Italy is no longer in a recession, thanks to its black market. Because the European Union changed the way it calculates GDP to include illegal revenue from things like underground alcohol sales, drugs, and prostitution, Italy found out Wednesday that its 0.1% GDP decline in the first quarter of 2014 was actually flat— or 0.0%    ... MORE

America’s Dirty Little Secret: Sex Trafficking Is Big Business

by John W. Whitehead.       Eighteen-year-old Hannah Graham is not the first girl to vanish in America without a trace—my hometown of Charlottesville, Va., has had five women go missing over the span of five years—and it is doubtful she will be the last. I say doubtful because America is in the grip of a highly profitable, highly organized      ... MORE

NY TIMES: Coalition Urges Nations To Decriminalize Drugs

by Somini Sengupta.        A coalition of political figures from around the world, including Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary general, and several former European and Latin American presidents, is urging governments to decriminalize a variety of illegal drugs and set up regulated drug markets within their own countries. The proposal  ... MORE

The War On Poverty And The War On Drugs

by Randall Holcombe.     Fighting the big government fight. As an apparently war-minded people, Americans (or at least, our American political leaders) have been comfortable framing parts of the domestic policy agenda as wars for decades. Two of the most prominent have been the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs. Despite the      ... MORE

Your Drug Warriors At Work: Florida SWAT Team Shoots Teen Girl & Kills Dog During Pot Raid On The Wrong House

from InformationLiberation:     Orange County, Florida sheriff's deputies waging an armed raid for a suspected pot dealer entered a family's home guns blazing and shot a teen girl and her dog, only to find out the suspect they were looking for hadn't lived in the home for weeks -- despite their claim to have "surveilled" the home extensively   ... MORE

Eric Garner's Arrest & Death About More Than A Chokehold

Cops kill man suspected of unapproved market transaction. The war on black market cigarettes. The brutal takedown and arrest of Eric Garner by the New York Police Department in Staten Island, which was quickly followed by the man's death, became top national news after New York Daily News released video of the encounter (here).      ... MORE

NYPD Kill Man Over Alleged Sale Of Black Market Cigarettes

by Scott Shackford. See the shocking video.     Eric Garner, 43, said he was just breaking up a fight. New York Police Department officers said he was selling untaxed cigarettes and tried to arrest him. When he refused to cooperate, police jumped on the 400-pound Staten Island man, put him in a chokehold, and forced him to the sidewalk. He complained    ... MORE

How Government Forces the Poor Into Black Markets

by Peter St. Onge.       From the left we often see tension between those who want to help the poor, and those who want to help the government. One recent example of this is the proposal to ban cash forwarded by Harvard’s Ken Rogoff. The gist of Rogoff’s beef with cash is that cash fuels the black market, and it makes it harder for the    ... MORE