A recent paper published in the prestigious Journal of Political Economy, “Crime and the Depenalization of Cannabis Possession: Evidence from a Policing Experiment,” reports on experimental policing in the city of London. In the experiment, police depenalized the possession of small quantities of cannabis in the London borough of Lambeth.

A couple of months ago I wrote about Mike Watts, the businessman who built a private toll road to replace a public road destroyed by a landslide.