Sobering up: Why the war on marijuana should be over soon
Here’s the current state of marijuana legalization efforts around the country.
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If you support legalizing weed, you should also support legalizing crack
The logic for legalizing marijuana holds true for legalizing “hard drugs” as well.
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Every 25 seconds: Human Rights Watch and the ACLU document more harms from drug prohibition
A new report from the ACLU and Human Rights Watch details many of the harms associated with the criminalization of drug possession. The most striking finding from the report is that police in the United States arrest more people for marijuana offenses than for all violent crimes combined. The title of the report, “Every 25 […]
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What You Missed: Week of 10/14
Stranger Things, anarchist Spaniards, and Edward Snowden.
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Peyote, Alcohol, and Religious Liberty
In this seventh installment in his series on religious liberty, Prof. Mark Hall explains how legislators have carved out exemptions to the Controlled Substances Act to protect religious ceremonies involving controlled substances.
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Vice City, Mardi Gras, and Government Regulation
Tomorrow is Mardi Gras, the celebration of debauchery and vice before the Lenten season begins. For many revelers that means consuming alcohol, tobacco, and drugs – something that is made much more difficult because of counterproductive government regulations. Learn Liberty has a new On Demand program, Vice City, that explains all the ways that the […]
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Marijuana Legalization in the United States: What Can We Expect?
More of the United States are legalizing medical marijuana, and voters in two states—Washington and Colorado—voted to legalize marijuana for recreational use a few years ago. The legalization is subject to certain restrictions, but it is a step toward ending the world’s failed experiment with drug prohibition. Will the US turn into a nation of […]
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Featured On Demand Program of the Week: Vice City
In this new On Demand series professors Peter Jaworski, Aeon Skoble and Daniel D’Amico will take you on a journey into the world of government regulation of all things vices. You’ll explore how government deregulation of craft beers has helped reshape the entire industry and how alcohol laws in Virginia actually do the opposite of […]
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