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Your Right to Absinthe 0
- Free Style, Front Page, The War on Drugs
- July 29, 2019
You can’t believe the shock. I was sitting in a living room drinking absinthe with friends, and I said in passing something like: “This is delicious but wouldn’t it be great if the original recipe with wormwood were legal again?” My friend, the economist George Selgin, said; “This has wormwood in it just like the
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American Tyranny Is Real: The War on Liberty Gets Personal 0
- Front Page, Political Opinion, The War on Drugs
- June 18, 2019
By Mike Maharrey I’ve been fighting federal overreach for years, but now it’s getting personal! I’ve been working with the Tenth Amendment Center for almost a decade. That’s a lot of activism. It should be pretty obvious that I am passionate about the work and that I believe deeply in the principles. You don’t work
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Safe Injection Sites Save Lives, so Why Does the DOJ Want to Ban Them?0
- Front Page, Political Opinion, The War on Drugs
- May 21, 2019
The opioid crisis is one of the most important issues facing the United States today. In 2018, the Trump administration signed a bipartisan bill aimed at fighting the opioid crisis through coordinated action and expanded access to medical treatment. Politicians from both sides of the aisle are extremely concerned about the rising number of opioid-related
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Why Even Staunch Conservatives Should Support Marijuana Decriminalization 0
- Front Page, The War on Drugs
- May 16, 2019
For a brief moment, marijuana decriminalization in Texas was a bipartisan possibility. The Texas House recently approved a bill that would have prohibited the arrest of individuals for possession of an ounce or less of marijuana. But when it was passed on to the state Senate, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick immediately gathered a Republican majority
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Denver’s Effort to Decriminalize Psychedelic Mushrooms Shows the Drug War’s Next Phase 0
- Front Page, The War on Drugs
- May 9, 2019
The state of Colorado has never shied from taking unprecedented moves toward ending the drug war. In 2013, it became the first state in the country to legalize the recreational use of cannabis. Wednesday night, the Centennial State made history once more by becoming the first state to have one of its cities vote to decriminalize
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St. Paul City Council Shows 6-1 Support of Marijuana Legalization 0
- Headline News, The War on Drugs
- December 13, 2018
Wednesday night, the St. Paul City Council voted 6-1 in favor of “supporting legalization and decriminalization of recreational cannabis in Minnesota and expungement of Minnesotan records of convicted cannabis crimes.” The one vote in opposition to the resolution came from Council member Dan Bostrom, who would announce his retirement later on during the same meeting.
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