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Fatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Destroying Fellow Nations
The War on Drugs is one of complicity, as evidenced in Vice News' excellent 2020 video covering the rise of drug-related violence in Culiacán, Mexico, despite the surge of the global pandemic.
Aug 61 min read


Fatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Inviting Corruption
Over the course of an entire year, Common Pleas Judge Paul Michael Pozonsky took cocaine from an evidence locker and replaced it with baking powder.
Jul 301 min read


Fatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Endangering Citizens
In the same way that overly strict parenting often increases rebellious behavior, a recent study by political scientist Dorothy Kronick and economist Juan Castillo highlights how militant policies often increase the violence they initially aim to curtail.
Jul 232 min read


Fatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Damaging Police-Citizen Trust
Thanks to Drug Prohibition, the classic, Norman Rockwell-esque picture of the friendly neighborhood cop serving up justice to citizens has become a picture of the heavily armed cop serving up citizens to justice.
Jul 91 min read


Fatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Inviting Corruption
It's no secret that the drug trade and its subsequent war has seen more corruption than progress over the past four decades.
Oct 23, 20251 min read


Fatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Militarizing Police
While most of us can be fairly certain that police will not suddenly crash through our front door in the middle of the night, that's not the case in Houston.
Jul 10, 20251 min read


Fatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Multiplying Overdose Deaths
As with the poisonous alcohol produced by Alcohol Prohibition, today’s killer drugs come almost exclusively, and necessarily, from Drug Prohibition—and safety can only come from this Prohibition’s repeal.
Jun 5, 20251 min read
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