Critics are calling Oregon’s Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act a failure. According to Oregon’s ABC affiliate KATU: “Oregon still has among the highest addiction rates in the country. Fatal overdoses have increased almost 20% over the previous year, with over...
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Free Crack Pipes? Time to Pardon Tommy Chong
by Jim Bovard | Feb 14, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Conservative publications have accused the Biden administration of planning to distribute $30 million worth of free crack pipes and other paraphernalia as part of its effort to achieve “racial equity” among “underserved communities.” The original notice for federal...
6/24/21 Ted Carpenter on the Bloody Legacy of America’s Drug War
by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Ted Carpenter discusses the harmful effects of drug prohibition in America, both at home and abroad. First of all, he points out, prohibition simply doesn't work. We learned this during alcohol prohibition, when consumption remained high but prices and violence...
How the American War on Drugs Demolished Guatemala
by Jim Bovard | Jun 9, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Vice President Kamala Harris visited Guatemala earlier this week to bestow millions of dollars in new foreign aid on that government. The Biden administration is pretending that giving more US tax dollars to Central American governments will miraculously reduce the...
Yes, Republicans Are the Party of Drug Warriors
by Laurence Vance | Mar 16, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
The federal government considers growing, distributing, buying, selling, possessing, or using marijuana to be a criminal offense, punishable by fines and imprisonment. Possession of marijuana will get you a maximum sentence of one year in jail and a minimum fine of...
Does Oregon’s Decriminalization Signal An End to the War on Drugs?
by Bradley Thomas | Feb 6, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Oregon became the first state to decriminalize possession of otherwise illegal drugs. According to this Feb. 1 Associated Press article, “Police in Oregon can no longer arrest someone for possession of small amounts of heroin, methamphetamine, LSD, oxycodone and other...
Recovering Addict Explains How Gov’t Spurs Addiction Ep. 150 ft. the Clean Libertarian
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jan 29, 2021 | Libertarianism, Vital Dissent
https://youtu.be/kyuxnMc-NSc In this episode of the podcast, Drew Cook joins me to share his story of recovery and to explain his first hand account of how the state creates addicts. Drew is the host of The Clean Libertarian and has been a long time listener of the...
Another Victim in America’s Drug War
by Lance Lamberton | Jan 22, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
On November 15, 2018, my wife came home to give me the worst news that I have ever gotten in my adult life. My stepdaughter, Mandy Koblischek, who had been my stepdaughter for the past 21 years, and who I loved dearly, died from a lethal overdose of heroin laced with...
You See, Government is Not Your Security Force, They Are Your Deadly Enemy
by Scott Horton | Jan 16, 2020 | Blog
Washington Post: DEA seizes life savings of senile old man without the slightest pretext of a suspicion or belief that the money was involved in any crime at all. Every dollar Terry Rolin had saved over a lifetime was stacked in a large Tupperware container: $82,373....
This Is Your Brain on Government Intervention (in the War on Drugs)
by Matthew Freeman | Aug 18, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Ludwig von Mises, in his Critique of Interventionism, stated that one government intervention in the market creates unintended consequences, which inevitably justifies the next government intervention. Nowhere is this more true than in the healthcare and drug...
Accessories to Murder
by Scott Horton | Feb 3, 2019 | Blog
Every American who supports drug prohibition is guilty.
TGIF: The FDA’s Assault on Tobacco Consumers
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 25, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
We’ve all heard horror stories about the run-amok regulatory state. Enabled by open-ended statutes passed by Congress and signed by presidents, regulatory agencies have acquired virtual carte blanche to write rules governing peaceful behavior. Even when a seemingly...
War on Drugs, Steel Man
by Brandon Smith | Jan 22, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
The “Steel Man” tactic is the opposite of the “Straw Man” tactic in an argument. The latter is a tactic in which one misrepresents an opponents argument and then attacks that misrepresentation. An example of this in regard to the War on Drugs, following the theme of...
Episode 174: Is Psilocybin The Next ‘Drug’ to Be Legalized in Denver?
by Peter R. Quiñones | Oct 29, 2018 | Blog, Free Man Beyond the Wall
51 Minutes Suitable for All Ages Mance invited the campaign director of 'Decriminalize Denver,' Kevin Matthews, to come on the show. Kevin is collecting signatures with the intention of getting the decriminalization of psilocybin mushrooms on the ballot in Denver in...
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The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
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