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…
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…
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…
Follow a US Dollar from its creation at the Treasury to the death of a young man.
Drug prohibition contradicts American ideals like personal freedom, limited government, and free markets. Prohibition expands government power, fuels black markets, and disproportionately harms marginalized groups while ignoring evidence supporting alternatives like decriminalization. Policy reform is needed to align drug policy with the values of liberty and justice.
The argument for legalizing and safely producing all drugs is gaining traction, driven by a mix of public health and economic concerns. The current approach to drug policy has failed to stem the tide of overdose deaths, with over 600,000 people having lost their lives to acute drug overdoses. To put that in perspective, this…