All Posts Tagged With: "drug policy"
How to End Mexico’s Deadly Drug War
Albert Einstein declared, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” He wasn’t describing the federal government’s nearly century-long war on drugs but he might as well have been. Despite ample lip-service for “hope” and “change,” the Obama administration’s cynical response to the escalating drug prohibition-related [...]
18Nov2009 | Paul Armentano | 74 comments | ContinuedAfter Prohibition: An Adult Approach to Drug Policies in the 21st Century by Timothy Lynch
Cato Institute • 2000 • 193 pages • $18.95 Reviewed by Kevin B. Zeese As the title indicates, this book takes an adult approach to drug issues. While most politicians argue over the mix of drug war funding—interdiction, eradication, law enforcement, treatment, or prevention—After Prohibition avoids merely moving around the furniture on the Titanic and [...]
1Jun2002 | Timothy Lynch - Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedThe War Against Drug-Speech
The “thought police” are back, and with a vengeance. Pending congressional legislation casts politicians and law enforcement as modern-day book burners. Legislators have their pick of three separate bills that would impose a ten-year felony sentence on anyone who communicates, by any means, “information pertaining to the . . . manufacture of a controlled substance,” [...]
1Jun2000 | Paul Armentano | 1 comment | ContinuedPolicy Analysis and Public Choice: Selected Papers by William A. Niskanen
This volume has much to recommend it. First off, William Niskanen, chairman of the Cato Institute, presents an organized collection of 34 papers that span his interesting and productive 40-year career as a professional economist. Never so technical as to restrict access to readers of policy analysis, the papers cover issues as diverse as school [...]
1Jun1999 | Bruce Yandle | 1 comment | Continued-
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