On FPF #260, I explain how the war on drugs impacts US foreign policy and countries around the world. Prohibition is proven to be a failed policy that leads to black market violence. In some countries, the black market created by drug prohibition is so massive it can...
Drug Prohibition
10/3/18 Daniel Lazare on America’s Drug War
Daniel Lazare joins Scott to talk about his recent article in for the American Conservative Magazine about the war on drugs. He explains many of the practical reasons to end the war, demonstrated by America's own history. For instance, alcohol prohibition tended to...
3/3/17 Raeford Davis on the seven Baltimore cops indicted on federal racketeering charges
Raeford Davis, a speaker for Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) and a former North Charleston police officer, discusses how drug prohibition and gun control laws create both dangerous criminals and corrupt cops, like the seven Baltimore "high-profile gun unit"...
The Routine Lawlessness of America’s Law Enforcers
Enforcers of drug prohibition can be perversely ingenious in devising methods to subvert due process guarantees. One tactic widely employed by police officers looking for a way to circumvent the Fourth Amendment is to intimidate a subject into giving the officers...
“Build the Wall” With Slave Labor, Urges Massachusetts Sheriff
“Liberty, if I understand it at all, is a general principle, and the clear right of the subjects within the realm, or of none,” declared British statesman Edmund Burke in an April 3, 1777 message to the Sheriffs of Bristol. “Partial freedom seems to me a most...
It’s Always Scummy in the Philadelphia PD
"There is ...no human right, natural or Constitutional, that we have not seen nullified by the United States Government," wrote the immortal Albert Jay Nock in his essay Our Enemy, the State. "Of all the crimes that are committed for gain or revenge, there is not one...
Thank You, Divine State, For Stealing Only Eight Years From My Life
Six years ago, Louisiana resident Bernard Noble, a 50-year-old father of seven children, was sentenced to thirteen years in prison for possessing a minuscule amount of marijuana. The sentence was pursued by the serpentine Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon...
The Prohibitionist-Pharmaceutical Axis Strikes: Free Kelsey Osborne!
If 23-year-old Gooding, Idaho resident Kelsey Osborne is sent to prison for using medicinal cannabis to treat her daughter’s seizures, Governor Butch Otter should immediately grant her a pardon. If he fails to do so, he should be dragged into a public square in...
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