If you would like to try recreational drugs, you don’t need the DEA. If you wouldn’t – you don’t need the DEA. It’s time to re-evaluate our approach to drug prohibition.
Imagine being sentenced to more years in prison for having a plant than someone who raped a child. This isn’t a hypothetical situation — it already happened. It’s a feature – not a bug – of the modern American justice system. For decades, the United States has treated nonviolent drug offenses as if they were…
Imagine going to a pain specialist because your body feels like it’s on fire—and walking out with a prescription meant for heroin detox. That’s not care. That’s surrender. In the last few years, pain management has morphed into risk management. Not for the patient—for the doctor. The result? A growing number of pain clinics now…
Not long ago, anyone could walk into a store and buy a bottle of laudanum—opium dissolved in alcohol—without a prescription. Bayer sold heroin through the Sears and Roebuck catalog. For a quarter dollar, they would ship it straight to your door – with syringes. It wasn’t perfect. Addiction was rampant. Labels were vague. However, people…
The government’s role should be to inform and protect, not to dominate and dictate. When laws like the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 go beyond mandating accurate labeling and instead criminalize individuals for making personal choices about what they consume or produce, we’ve crossed a dangerous line as Americans. Rather than providing a…
Recently, I was involved in a debate on Andrew Wilson’s debate group “The Crucible.” I lost, but learned a lot. Namely, not to become angry when my opponent resorts to ad-hominem attacks. I was called a “junky retard” at least eight times. I was also threatened with being kicked off of the server for “tone…
The DEA is interfering in the Doctor-Patient relationship and actively denying legitimate and adequate pain management.
Heroin and Alcohol: One is a deadly, brain-rotting, violence-inducing poison. The other comes from a seed pod. If you’re a regular visitor of antiprohibit.org, you’ll know that we believe that drug prohibition isn’t compatible with American ideals. The most obvious of which are self-determinism, manifest destiny, personal liberty, bodily autonomy, and privacy. It has become…
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was founded in 1973 under the guise of fighting drug trafficking and abuse. But after more than 50 years, trillions of dollars, and millions of arrests, drug markets remain as strong as ever. If the DEA were to succeed in its mission, it would eventually put itself out of a…
In a surprising twist, former President Donald Trump has commented that Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road, has served “enough” of his double life sentence for his role in the infamous online marketplace. This statement has reignited debate about Ulbricht’s harsh sentencing and, perhaps inadvertently, about the broader implications for drug prohibition. The…