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Good Intentions: Bad Results Apr. 30, 2025
Government makes most things worse. Lyndon Johnson launched a War on Poverty; Richard Nixon a War on... Read More
America Can't Rely on Others to Solve Our Drug Crisis Feb. 13, 2025
Fentanyl presents America with a terrible dilemma. More than 74,000 Americans died in 2023 after tak... Read More
You Can't Stop Fentanyl Oct. 17, 2023
Fentanyl has killed more Americans than the wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined. And line... Read More
The White Powder House Jul. 14, 2023
The White House was, as required, horrified by the presence of cocaine within the sacred precincts o... Read More
Prepare for Legal Marijuana Dec. 07, 2022
New House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos he believes the soo... Read More
We Need a Smarter War on Drugs Apr. 02, 2022
Did we learn nothing from the so-called crack-cocaine plague of the '80s and '90s? For those with f... Read More
Rediscovering the Promise of the American Founding Jul. 08, 2021
Declaring their independence from British rule 245 years ago, the American colonists held "these tru... Read More
Why Hasn't Legal Weed Killed the Illegal Market? Jun. 24, 2021
Legal marijuana is becoming the norm in America. Nineteen states have legalized recreational cannabi... Read More
Marijuana Bans Going Up in Smoke Nov. 07, 2020
As tallies trickled in from battleground states, one outcome was clear after election night: America... Read More
A Reason to Protest Jul. 01, 2020
Protesters say America's criminal justice system is unfair. It is. Courts are so jammed that innocen... Read More
We Need a Smarter War on Drugs Feb. 08, 2020
Did we learn nothing from the so-called crack-cocaine plague of the '80s and '90s? For those with f... 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
A Conservative Mom Breaks the Pot Taboo May. 31, 2017
Let's talk about marijuana. Specifically, let's talk about how and why I came to be one of the count... Read More
A Few Ways the Trump Administration Could Help Minorities Dec. 08, 2016
Republicans running for president haven't done very well with minority voters, and although Presiden... Read More
Drug Sentences Will Never Be Fair Oct. 12, 2016
When President Obama issued his latest batch of commutations last week, the White House called them ... 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
The Streets of San Francisco, a Libertarian Take Apr. 03, 2016
"Sometimes I think we're so liberal that we're OK stepping over dead people on our sidewalks," Danie... Read More
Law and Border Sep. 16, 2015
How many wars can we fight? Our presidential candidates demand "stronger action" against both illeg... Read More
Obama Throws Open 46 Cell Doors at Last Jul. 14, 2015
President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 46 federal drug offenders Monday. In his first term... 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
