Category:War on Drugs

April 28, 2021 | Video

Two days before Breonna died, we discussed the War on Drugs with Aaron Bosset, founder of the Black Cannabis Commission.

His words are even more relevant today.

The War on Drugs is not about race alone. The welfare state, qualified immunity, police unions, and the effects of these broken institutions all play a part. But it is important for us to give notice to this major piece of the puzzle.

April 28, 2021 | Video

The War on Drugs paved the way for the United States to lay a domestic foundation for a massive and overwhelming system of oppression.

Launched in the United States by former President Richard Nixon in 1971, drug criminalization served as the catalyst for firing an international crusade, strong-arming other countries into criminalizing cannabis whether they wanted to or not.

In this interview with Aaron Bossett, Founder of the Black Cannabis Commission, we answer the following questions:

– Who is Harry J. Anslinger and why did he invent a new ‘public enemy’?
– What discovery helped to reignite the medical marijuana movement?
– How does the War on Drugs continue today, despite seeing an upward trend towards legalization?
– How does state legalization fail to address the harmful effects of the War on Drugs in minority communities?

#4/20 #WarOnDrugs #EndTheDrugWar

April 28, 2021 | Video

The War on Drugs was launched in the United States by former President Richard Nixon in 1971. This allowed for the criminalization of drug use, which led to the mass incarceration of millions of Americans, particularly for communities of color.

Jacob Sullum, a senior editor at Reason magazine, has been writing about drug policy since the 1980s. In this video, he answers the following questions:

How does the War on Drugs give rise to a black market with fatal consequences?
How does the War on Drugs endanger the general public’s privacy?
How does the War on Drugs give police a license to steal your cash?

#WaronDrugs #EndTheDrugWar #DrugPolicy

December 20, 2016 | Video

According to professor Steve Davies, “In terms of its own goals, the war on drugs is a catastrophic policy failure.” When you create a system that leads to mass incarceration, a network of international crime, and funds terrorism–  without accomplishing what it set out to accomplish– that program should probably be revisited.

October 25, 2016 | Video

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) classifies drugs according to their properties and the level of regulation that should be applied to them. In this clip from Learn Liberty’s live interview with Robby Soave of Reason, Evan and Robby discuss the impact of the DEA’s classification schedule on Americans.

June 23, 2016 | Video

Are SWAT raids and mandatory minimum sentences really the right way for the government to address drug use? Both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are talking up legalization, with Trump saying that states should be able to decriminalize drugs without federal interference. Letting more states go the way of Colorado might help with America’s growing […]

April 23, 2016 | Video

Why do some states have harsher laws against marijuana than others? Is having differing laws between states a good thing? Join Learn Liberty and Professor Alex Kreit to explore how possession of cannabis is treated differently by the jurisdictions of Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.