The Moral Incoherence of Drug Prohibition
The claim is made that drug use is immoral, so must therefore be illegal. Should we outlaw every other immoral activity also?
The claim is made that drug use is immoral, so must therefore be illegal. Should we outlaw every other immoral activity also?
Building a freer society means winning the battle of ideas, not the empty contests put on by the central government every four years.
If we want to help young men become more productive and employable, we must end minimum wages and the drug war.
Private security, since it offers the advantages of labor specialization, economies of scale, and immediately-available on-site services, is a much more practical and realistic response to violent crime than the alternatives.
Both Civil Asset Forfeiture and the Income Tax take away the hard-earned money of people presumed to be innocent.
Dennis Hastert may have committed many despicable crimes. Withdrawing "too much" money from a bank isn't one of them.
Dr. Mark Thornton is interviewed on the suburban heroin epidemic in America.
This is the fruit of free labor. It is able to create more wealth for everyone than slave labor once provided for the masters.
Synthetic marijuana is more dangerous and unpredictable than the ordinary kind. It exists because the Drug War has made cheaper, more potent drugs more profitable. And on a black market, safety is not the seller's chief concern.
Due to over prescription of legal opiates, many patients become addicted and end up turning to illegal opiates like heroin. Overdoses and other tragedies soon follow.