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…
Abstract: Drug prohibition has been a cornerstone of global drug policy for decades. However, mounting evidence suggests that this approach is not only ineffective but also counterproductive in addressing drug-related issues. This article provides a comprehensive scientific analysis of why drug prohibition is failing to achieve its intended goals and proposes alternative strategies for mitigating…
by Gabriel Chance “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana…