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Overdose Deaths Are the Product of Drug Prohibition Apr. 12, 2018
During Prohibition, drinkers never knew what they would get when they set out to slake their thirst.... Read More
Real Federalists Need to Step Up Jan. 18, 2018
You would think that the Justice Department has better things to do than to restart a federal war on... Read More
Jeff Sessions Gives a Boost to Legalization of Pot Jan. 11, 2018
When Winston Churchill's party lost an election in 1945, evicting him from the job of prime minister... Read More
Celebrate Freedom, Not Pot Jan. 04, 2018
As many Californians reveled with unbridled joy over their new freedom to use marijuana for any reas... Read More
Legal Marijuana Is Becoming the Norm Oct. 22, 2017
The war on drugs has been going on since 1971, and we have a winner: marijuana. Back then, possessio... Read More
Cruel and Stupid May. 17, 2017
President Trump's attorney general, Jeff Sessions, ordered federal prosecutors to seek maximum penal... Read More
Marijuana, California Should Legalize it Sep. 18, 2016
There's a reason marijuana laws don't work: There is no compelling reason for them to work. Marijuan... Read More
How the War on Drugs Fails Black Communities Jul. 14, 2016
As recent events have demonstrated, more than 50 years after much-delayed civil rights legislation w... Read More
Big Marijuana's 'War on the Poor' May. 25, 2016
Big Tobacco takes a disproportionate toll on the working class and the poor, but thrives on an image... Read More
Colorado's Lessons From Legal Pot May. 19, 2016
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper opposed a 2012 state ballot initiative to allow the sale and use of ... Read More
No More Federal Medical Pot Prosecutions May. 18, 2016
Although marijuana legalization remains a contentious issue, some consensus has emerged across the c... Read More
El Chapo Got Caught. So What? Jan. 14, 2016
All across America last weekend, panicked drug users rushed to their dealers to stock up on marijuan... Read More
Let the States Make Drug Law May. 05, 2015
WASHINGTON — Howard Wooldridge, a Washington lobbyist, is a former detective and forever Texan... Read More
Will California's Next Top Cop Support Legal Pot? Oct. 12, 2014
Practically everyone expects California Attorney General Kamala Harris to win re-election handily in... Read More
Drug War Refugees: Thousands of Central American Children Are Fleeing Prohibition-Related Violence Jul. 23, 2014
As thousands of children fleeing violence in Central America seek refuge in the United States, some ... Read More
Truth, the Anti-Drug Jun. 07, 2014
We can debate the science of marijuana, a drug, and challenge the soundness of public policy about i... Read More
Wizard of Id
May. 05, 2014
America's Founders and Legalizing Marijuana (Part 3) Mar. 11, 2014
In the first two parts of this series, I explained the comparative dangers and health risks of alcoh... Read More
Alcohol, Marijuana and the Youth of America (Part 2) Mar. 04, 2014
A few weeks ago, I began to show from extensive studies and evidence how alcohol use and marijuana u... Read More
Heroin and Marijuana Aren't Equally Dangerous Feb. 06, 2014
The apparent heroin overdose death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman already has become a hockey puck ... Read More
