by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 28, 2018 | Opinion, Politics
Nestled among all this week’s momentous news by and of the Supreme Court, we find the story of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28 year old Bernie Sanders acolyte who just upended the number-four Democrat in the House, 14 term incumbent Joe Crowley, in...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 5, 2018 | Drug Policy
The number of drug addicts in the USA is on the rise, and opioid overdoses are killing Americans at rate where policy must adapt. Adapt, because our attempt to incarcerate our way out of this problem has resulted in what is the greatest jailing of people in the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 4, 2018 | Drug Policy, Health, Opinion, Politics
Like all proper thinking libertarians (No True Scotsman notwithstanding), I welcomed and applauded the recent passage of the Right To Try bill. Naturally, given that Trump specifically promoted passage of the bill in his State of the Union address, the left-o-sphere...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 31, 2018 | Health
A recent Wall Street Journal “Best of the Web” column included an amusing bit of snark: Paul R. Ehrlich, Call Your Office – World faces ‘staggering obesity challenge: study.” For those unaware, Paul R. Ehrlich wrote a book called The...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 23, 2018 | Drug Policy, Opinion
As pot legalization continues to move apace, I’ve started to notice a greater frequency of assertions about the benefits of pot or cannabidoil, and a greater frequency of rebuttals to assertions about the efficacy of marijuana for medicinal and health purposes....
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