by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 23, 2017 | Culture, Drug Policy, Economics, Health, Opinion
It took a mere 13 years for America to realize the futility of alcohol prohibition. Pot prohibition, enacted at the federal level 80 years ago, is slowly but surely unraveling. Conversations about the futility of criminalizing harder drugs, once limited to the darkest...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Sep 18, 2017 | Culture, Drug Policy, Politics
To study the patterns of media umbranoshes and outrages, it seems the more one knows the less one understands. Try to make sense of rioting in the streets over the totally justified actions of the Police in the Michael Brown shooting, versus the comparative community...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 24, 2017 | Drug Policy, Politics, Taxation
The Government Hates Competition A heretofore under-reported bit of government odiousness is finally getting the headline treatment it so richly deserves. Civil asset forfeiture, where government seizes money and property it believes was involved in or the result of a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 6, 2017 | Drug Policy, Guns, Health, Politics
A bad man uses a gun to inflict harm on others, and, as sure as Pavlov’s dog salivating at the ringing of a bell, the usual scolds decry the insufficiency of the laws meant to prohibit bad men from getting guns. The lament is typically combined with contempt for...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Feb 11, 2017 | Drug Policy, Politics
We thick-headed humans have learned little of power and mercy, even with many of us professing to love Jesus (who just asked us all to be nice and wise to each other). Ancient Greece seems to have a better handle on the Frankenstein-like true nature of force, making...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jan 25, 2017 | Culture, Drug Policy
As will increasingly be a question: the great baseball players whose careers coincided with the peak of the steroid era are being considered for admission into the Hall of Fame. Are they worthy? Like any debate on ethics, the answers are clear to child’s logic...
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