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Open Season on the Poor
A while back, before it got cold, Olga and I went to a fund-raiser for an organization that helps veterans become organic farmers. It was a pizza dinner at a family farm, and I found myself across a long picnic table from a Vermont police officer who was telling everyone in earshot about the need to sterilize Holyoke, Massachusettes. Holyoke is ( Read more... ) -
America's Longest War
Olga and I went to a screening of America' Longest War: A Film About Drug Prohibition. The event was put on by the Reason Foundation. Ethan Nadelmann was a participant in a panel discussion after the film. He's a great speaker, and I heard him give a talk at an event that I attended at the Cato Institute in 1999 ( Read more... ) -
ALERT: Congress Must Pass Sentencing Reform
If you aren't familiar with the sequence of events that led to the 1986 legislation that turned the USA into the world's jailor, you might could have a listen to my 2006 interview with Eric E. Sterling of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation:
http://c-realm.com/podcasts/crealm/5-a-leap-of-reason-and-reasons-for-hope/
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One half of a killer mimosa
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Oranges that get you high: A Florida Biochemist designs a citrus tree with THC.
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A Fresh Drug War non-Rant
Today's LewRockwell.com features a Drug War essay by Berkley-based writer and musician, Anthony Gregory. I rarely read these things, at least not in their entirety, because they all seem to make the same points in roughly the same way. I liked Mr. Gregory's essay, particularly the following paragraph:What kind of message does it send children, ( Read more... )
