by Dan Mitchell | Nov 4, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
My view on the Drug War is somewhat schizophrenic. In my personal life, I’m basically a social conservative. I don’t like drugs, I’ve never tried drugs, and I urge others to behave the same way. But I know that prohibition is a costly failure that leads to abusive...
by Dan Mitchell | May 13, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
What word best describes the War on Drugs? Inane? Lunacy? Indecent? Harmful? Thuggery? The right answer is All of the Above. Politicians have ruined lives and wasted money in a futile campaign to stop people from recreational drug use. It may be true that people who...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Apr 15, 2017 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by the Herald-Mail, and was coauthored by Brian Garst. Lawmakers at the state and national levels are scrambling to find answers to the growing problem of opioid abuse. Overdose deaths involving opioids increased by 200 percent between 2000 and...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 17, 2016 | Blogs, Crime, Society
When writing about money laundering laws, I’ll sometimes highlight gross abuses by government and I’ll periodically make the usual libertarian arguments about privacy. But I mostly focus on how the laws simply don’t make sense from a cost-benefit perspective....
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 3, 2016 | Blogs, Crime, Society
Elizabeth Barrett Browning started her famous sonnet with “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” and then proceeded to provide lots of examples If I had similar talent, I would produce a sonnet that began “How is the Drug War a failure? Let me count the ways”...
