All Posts Tagged With: "marijuana"

Jury Nullification: Right, Remedy, or Danger?

Last December a “mutiny” occurred in a Montana courtroom. At least that’s what a stunned county deputy attorney called it. One of 27 members of a jury pool spoke up to ask why taxpayer money was being wasted to prosecute a man accused of possessing 1/16th of an ounce of marijuana. When polled, a large [...]

25May2011 | Wendy McElroy | 8 comments | Continued

This Is Your Country On Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America

Americans really like to get high, and they’ll go out of their way to do so even when the government threatens to punish them. That’s the theme that comes through strongest in Ryan Grim’s This Is Your Country On Drugs, a look at the relationship among Americans, the drugs they use, and their government. The [...]

24Nov2010 | Jacob H. Huebert | 1 comment | Continued

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 | Continued

Obama Administration Ends Medical Marijuana Crackdown

The president finally doing something right, in my humble opinion: Federal drug agents won’t pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued Monday by the Obama administration.

19Oct2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 3 comments | Continued

The Robert Downey Jr. Problem

Drugs can exercise a powerful hold over a human being. What other lesson is possible from the arrest of actor Robert Downey Jr., yet again, on drug charges?

His life is a tragedy: a gifted actor, with access to the sort of money and fame of which most people only dream, succumbs to drugs and ends up in jail. His latest arrest came only three months after being released from prison.

1Mar2001 | Doug Bandow | 1 comment | Continued

A Man’s Home Once Was His Castle

Few photos have inspired as many words as that of a young Cuban boy face to face with a MP-5 machine gun. The Associated Press photo of federal armed agents seizing Elián González from his Miami relatives aroused outrage among many Americans and—perhaps ironically—several congressional conservatives. And while the photograph was unique, the act it [...]

1Oct2000 | Paul Armentano | 0 comments | Continued

Bought and Sold: Drug Warriors and the Media

Americans pride themselves on their independent press. Yet some media outlets and networks are compromising their autonomy and objectivity by welcoming the federal government as a major paying advertiser. This alarming union is the latest outgrowth of the “war on drugs,” and the launch of a new $775 million White House campaign to promote its [...]

1Oct1999 | Paul Armentano | 1 comment | Continued

Medicine for the Sick

Mr. Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. The Drug War: seldom has so much harm been done to so many for so little purpose. Among the most tragic victims [...]

1Oct1997 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued

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