How many wars can we fight? Our presidential candidates demand "stronger action" against both illegal immigration and illegal drugs. But those goals conflict. The War on Drugs makes border enforcement much harder! America's 44-year-long Drug War hasn't made a dent in American drug use or the supply of illegal drugs. If it had some positive ... MORE
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John Stossel: Law And Border
How many wars can we fight? Our presidential candidates demand "stronger action" against both illegal immigration and illegal drugs. But those goals conflict. The War on Drugs makes border enforcement much harder! America's 44-year-long Drug War hasn't made a dent in American drug use or the supply of illegal drugs. If it had some positive ... MORELearn About Jury Nullification: Medical Marijuana Patient Could Spend Close To 100 Years In Prison For Pot Charges
by Maria Ines Taracena. The thought of possibly spending close to 100 years in prison terrifies Kyle Catlin. But he's mostly concerned about his mom. She's not in the best of
health. If something were to happen to her, "I may not even be allowed
to leave prison to go to my mom's funeral, and that's super fucked up,"
he says. "I'm probably not gonna ... MOREVIDEO FLASHBACK: War On Drugs Is A Failure (2013)
Featuring Ron Paul, Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee.
Jacob Sullum: 5 Popular Drugs Scares Vs. Reality -- The Disconnect Between Drug Use And Public Alarm About It
Dangerous drug use is on the decline. Last year I noted the disconnect between rising public alarm about methamphetamine and falling rates of use. By 2005, when Newsweek identified "The Meth Epidemic" as "America's New Drug Crisis" in a sensational cover story, illicit methamphetamine use had been declining for years. A new ... MOREKatherine Mangu-Ward: Plastic Bags Are Good
Another thing prohibitionists get wrong. Here is a list of things that are thicker than a typical plastic grocery bag: A strand of hair. A coat of paint. A human cornea. High-density polyethylene is a miracle of materials science. Despite weighing less than 5 grams, one bag can hold 17 pounds, well over 1,000 times its own weight. At about a penny ... MOREJacob Sullum: Where Can You Smoke Legal Pot?
Out from the shadows. When the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol in Massachusetts unveiled the text of its 2016 legalization initiative this month, the group highlighted several features of the measure but omitted the most interesting one. The Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act would allow consumption of cannabis ... MOREClaire Bernish: What Happened When Gloucester, Mass. Stopped Arresting Drug Addicts, And Offered Help Instead
Government as public servants, what a novel idea. Situated on the coast of Massachusetts, Gloucester’s claims to fame include its status as “America’s original seaport,” as well as being the real-life location on which events in the movie The Perfect Storm (2000) were based. Now, the small town has a new reason to be the center of attention: ... MOREThese 17 States Could Have Legalized Marijuana Soon
by Kyle Jaeger. A marijuana legalization initiative in Ohio received enough signatures
to get on the November 2015 ballot, Secretary of State Jon Husted
announced on Tuesday, much to the excitement of the measure's pro-pot
supporters. If it passes, Ohio will become the fifth state (plus the
District of Columbia) to allow people 21 or older to ... MOREAugur Could Be The Greatest Gambling Platform In History. Is There Anything The Government Can Do To Stop It?
by Jim Epstein. The wisdom of the crowds. An online gambling platform could do to the neighborhood bookie what electric refrigerators did to the ice delivery man. Coming this fall, Augur will allow participants to wager money on any future event of their choosing. Software will set the odds, collect the bets, and disperse the winnings. The price alone ... MORE
Drug War Update - Jacob Sullum: Texas Cops Sexually Assault Another Motorist In The Name Of Pot Prohibition
Another warrantless roadside cavity probe. What is it with Texas cops and roadside vaginal searches? Last May I described
three strikingly similar cases in which Texas troopers fruitlessly
looked for marijuana in the private parts of women pulled over for minor
traffic offenses. The incidents were outrageous enough to inspire a new ... MOREAnti-Pot Hard-Liner Chris Christie Admits The Drug War Is A 'Failure,' Even Though He More Or Less Wants To Restart It
by Matt Ferner. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said on Monday that the war on
drugs has been a "failure" -- even though he has vowed to enact a
federal crackdown on marijuana, a substance that has been a primary
target of the drug war for decades. "This is a disease and the war on drugs has been a failure -- well-intentioned, but a failure," Christie ... MOREHow Marijuana Taxes & Restrictions Recreate Prohibition
by J D Tucille. Are you a government official who yearns for the good old days of marijuana prohibition? Do you feel out of place in an era of voter-approved legalization, grow clubs, and pot shops? My, how the world has changed! But you can feed your nostalgia for busts and streetcorner deals even while "respecting" the public's desire to legalize ... MOREFeds Deploy Warrantless Database Fishing Expeditions
by Mark J. Fitzgibbons. While focusing their resources and political energy on the NSA’s mass collection of metadata, privacy advocates have neglected the most dangerous institutionalized violations of the Fourth Amendment: administrative subpoenas. Now a United States District Court judge in Texas has ruled for the Drug Enforcement Agency ... MOREZach Weissmueller: You Have a Right to Buy and Sell Sex. Now, Will the Courts Protect It By Legalizing Prostitution?
See video. "Our hope in the lawsuit is to have the anti-prostitution law overturned
as unconstitutional and invalidated in the state of California," says
Maxine Doogan, a former sex worker and president of the Erotic Service
Provider Legal, Education, and Research Project (ESPLER), a group that has filed a lawsuit against California's attorney general ... MOREMan Spends 3 Months In Jail For Possession Of Vitamins
Overzealous drug warriors thought they were contraband. A man spent nearly three months in jail on felony drug possession
charges after police searched him during a traffic stop and found
vitamin supplements. Joseph Burrell, 31, was pulled over by police in November 2014 when
he was observed allegedly driving without his ... MORE
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