Mark Thornton reviews the first year of cannabis legalization in Colorado and the fact that the predictions of the prophets of dooms have failed to materialize. Meanwhile, the power of the state in this area continues to weaken.
Why do so many people who claim to be against big government believe everything the government says about foreign policy?
Where police fail, as at Ferguson and in Detroit, private firms and volunteers have stepped in.
Where police fail, as at Ferguson and in Detroit, private firms and volunteers have stepped in. And yet the state continues to claim that its employed enforcers are a thin blue line between order and chaos.
Some are now debating over whether or not the Ferguson riots are in the tradition of the Boston Tea Party. While the Tea Party itself may seem relatively innocent, the violence of the revolution itself was not nearly so innocent.
Tucked deep inside the 1,603-page federal spending measure is a provision that effectively ends the federal government's prohibition on medical marijuana and signals a major shift in drug policy.
The Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914, a bill with racist origins designed to increase the tax burden on non-whites in the United States, was passed 100 years ago today. It has since given birth to an immense police state apparatus.
Recent events surrounding Ferguson, Missouri and the choking death of Eric Garner have brought police misconduct to the forefront. Liber
At a recent conference on cybercrime, Judge Richard Posner, a well-known federal appeals court judge and one of the founders of the “law and economics” movement, said that the needs of national security trump a supposed right to privacy.
