Taxpayers Not Served by This Reefer Madness

Taxpayers not served by this reefer madness

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The violence associated with illegal drugs is generally due to prohibition itself. … For example, consider that marijuana compared to legal alcohol is a quick high, and this makes it, by medical definition, much more psychologically addictive than …
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Chained to scourge of slavery

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Human trafficking – which is not the same as slavery though the two are clearly linked, since most slaves are trafficked and most trafficking ends in slavery – rates with arms and drug-trafficking among the world's richest illicit industries. Yet we …
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The Roid Age

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We do not think of banning the web, for example, because it has ensnared countless people into forms of addiction, pornography, isolation and paranoia – as well, of course, as liberating discourse from its old shackles of legacy media. I take the … I …
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