Posted in libertarianism, people, tagged civil liberties, war on drugs, drugs, drug legalization, marijuana, absurd, drug war, trial, charlie lynch, medical marijuana on July 18, 2008 | No Comments »
His crime was that he owned a medical marijuana dispensary that sold small amounts of the drug as a pain-reliever to the sick and the dying.
He faces 100 years in prison.
It goes without saying that one doesn’t have to be a libertarian or even believe in drug legalization to see the absurdity or the tragedy of the situation. (All [...]
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So Bob Barr, former Republican, presently the Libertarian candidate for president, was once at the forefront of the war on drugs. How did he change his mind?
Now, you may be asking how this happened and my answer is simple: “The libertarians won.”
For more than three decades, the Libertarian Party and small “l” libertarians have done their part to [...]
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Posted in libertarianism, people, tagged absurd, cops, crime, death, drug legalization, drug war, drugs, informant, murder, police, prison, rachel hoffman, war on drugs on May 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Rachel Hoffman was a college student and a bit of a hippie. She tried drugs and got caught. Police threatened her with prison time unless she agreed to become an informant and set up a meeting with the supplier to buy $10000 worth of drugs and weaponry, a purchase drastically out of character for a [...]
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Posted in libertarianism, sci, tech and gizmos, tagged obesity, government, food, health, war on drugs, drugs, regulation, junk food, addiction, drug war, addict, craving, neuroscience on May 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In that the addictions produced by both are similar.
I can see the health police salivating at the prospect of using this as a reason to regulate or ban junk food (though to me, it looks like yet another argument for drug legalization).
However, as the author of the linked article says:
Because if we really do crave junk food the way [...]
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Is shown most starkly by the graph below.
(Source: NYCLU)
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Posted in libertarianism, tagged liberty, ban, laws, drugs, drug, drug laws, magic mushrooms, mushroom, amsterdam, netherlands, dutch, mushrooms, personal responsibility on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
This is very depressing news.
The Dutch cabinet has proposed a ban on the sale of all hallucinogenic “magic” mushrooms because they could induce life-threatening behaviour.
A bill will now pass to the Dutch parliament, where a majority of lawmakers are expected to back a ban after a teenage French girl who had eaten mushrooms died jumping [...]
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Posted in news and links, tagged awakenings, drugs, election 2008, magazine, quote, reason, reason magazine, ron paul, war on drugs on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »
One advantage of subscribing to the print edition of a magazine is that you get the good stuff early. There was a lot of good stuff in the current edition of Reason and now that the articles are finally on-line, I can share some of them with the rest of you.
This illustratedstrip by Peter Bagge is a highly entertaining take on [...]
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Posted in libertarianism, tagged drug legalization, drug warrior, drugs, freedom, morality, prohibition, radley balko, reason magazine, war on drugs on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »
All evidence points to the fact that everyone would be better off if drugs were legalized. So what makes the war on drugs go on? In this excellent article, Radley Balko glimpses into the mind of a drug warrior.
We’re told that certain drugs have to be prohibited because they’re too dangerous. But we should also resist [...]
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Posted in libertarianism, tagged crime, drug, drug clock, drugs, government, policy, spending, United States, violence, war on drugs on March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
As dumb wars go, this is the dumbest of them all. It involves more money than is spent on food programs, science or technology. It arrests about two million people (that’s almost 1 percent of the population) every year, most of them small users. It is responsible for about a quarter of the current inmate population in the United [...]
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