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Drug Prohibition is Immoral

Jacob Sullum reports on the Atlasphere that:
The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that drug offenders account for about 25 percent of local jail inmates, 21 percent of state prisoners and 55 percent of federal prisoners. Since 1980 the number of drug offenders in state prisons has increased by 1,200 percent, more than four [...]

Smoky Business

I took the liberty of a small break after a crazy semester and the time to prepare for the coming, also crazy, one. Hence, my posting was a bit sparse these past few weeks. But all should return to normal rather soon. In the meantime, I shall briefly vent my outrage at Illinois’ smoking ban [...]

RE: Sicko

Free Market Cure offers good documentaries on the wrongness and evil that is socialized medicine. They do a decent job at exposing the misleading use (surprise!) of statistics on the collectivist/altruist side. I also particularly love this cartoon of Michael Moore. The project is sponsored by The Moving Picture Institute, which supports documentaries advocating a [...]

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