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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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Why Decentralization Is the Key to Ending the War on Drugs 0
- Front Page, Political Opinion, War on drugs
- June 17, 2019
On May 17, 2019, the City of Denver decriminalized the use and possession of psilocybin mushrooms via referendum. Nevertheless, the vote was a nail-biter as the initiative was only passed by a tight margin of 50.5 percent to 49.5 percent. One of Many However, Denver was not alone in drug reform developments. Certain counties in Texas are
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Green Rush: How Hemp Is Growing the Economy and Transforming American Farming 0
- Business, Economics of Liberty, Front Page, War on drugs
- June 7, 2019
As federal marijuana prohibition slowly fades away into the depths of history, the burgeoning legal recreational cannabis market is poised to usher in a green rush for the US economy. And while many are excited about the fiscal implications of this entirely new economic sector, and rightfully so, there is another “green” market on the
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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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Quotes to Celebrate the Virtues of a Plant 0
- Free Style, Front Page
- April 20, 2019
Around the world, people are marking April 20 by celebrating a drug that has been prohibited by the United States federal government since 1970. History has proven that prohibition never works, and states began implementing policies that conflict with federal law in 1996. By 2016, the majority of states had legalized medical cannabis, and in
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