The eloquent Will Grigg in an outstanding interview with Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams, discussing his article Protecting the Vicious, Punishing the Virtuous: Marijuana Prohibition and Idaho’s Prison-Industrial Complex. My favorite coinages from the interview: Will...
Don’t Like the Drugs, but the War Must Cease
We've been devoting more coverage to the War on Drugs lately, so it's worth noting when a politician says anything about it other than "full speed ahead." It's especially worth noting when a presidential candidate says "I fear the War on Drugs a lot more than I fear...
Drug War Shame: Severely Ill Man Fired, Cut from Health Care
I just interviewed Joseph Casias, the poor man with an inoperable brain tumor and sinus cancer so bad you can barely understand him when he speaks, who was fired in November by Wal-Mart after he tested positive for marijuana. For the last four months, Casias had been...
Doing 55 in a 54
Kelley Vlahos has a great piece today on the Henry Gates affair and the larger problems of which it's a symptom. One such problem is the ever increasing number of pretexts on which the authorities can interrogate, search, assault, and arrest citizens. The authority...