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No Drug Price Controls
by John Stossel
(February 23, 2007)
Government intervention begets more government intervention.
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Big, Big Government
by John Stossel
(February 1, 2007)
Drug prohibition -- like alcohol prohibition -- is a silly idea.
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Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition
by Ralph R. Reiland
(August 19, 2004)
Jeffrey A. Miron, Professor of Economics at Boston University contends that the war on drugs has been more effective in fostering corruption among public officials than in reducing drug consumption.
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Criminalization Doesn't Curb Drug Use
by Radley Balko
(February 6, 2004)
Despite harsher sentences, increased funding for law enforcement, more prisons, expensive public relations campaigns and frightening trespasses on our civil liberties, Americans still generally use illicit drugs with the same frequency they have since the drug war began, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
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Drugs and Politics: Prescription Drug Benefits for the Elderly
by Thomas Sowell
(June 21, 2003)
In the midst of a bipartisan stampede toward "prescription drug benefits for the elderly," someone needs to ask the question: Why should seniors be singled out to be subsidized by the taxpayers, except that their votes are being sought by both parties?
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America's State Sponsored Terrorists: The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency
by Radley Balko
(October 17, 2002)
On the heels of the "I Helped …" commercials that began last January, the Drug Enforcement Administration has again engaged in a propaganda campaign aimed at likening drug-using Americans to the most notorious financiers of terrorism.
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"Drug Money Supports Terrorism": Cigarette Taxes and Terrorism
by Michelle Malkin
(May 21, 2002)
Do you remember those $3.5 million government ads that ran during the Super Bowl -- the ones linking drug use with terrorism?
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Downey Supporters Only Half Right
by Amy Peikoff, J.D.
(April 27, 2001)
The drug charges against actor Robert Downey Jr. should lead neither to imprisonment nor to mandatory rehabilitation.
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Ayn Rand, Smoking, & Atlas Shrugged
by Andrew Lewis
(May 19, 2000)
Question: Ayn Rand made many references to cigarette smoking in Atlas Shrugged. Do you think she would have included these ideas in her novel if she had known about the lasting affects of smoking?
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Hollywood: Another Casualty in the War on Drugs
by Larry Elder
(January 21, 2000)
The black market in drugs creates an incentive for crime, and the "cost" of fighting the war includes a continual erosion of our civil liberties. The criminal justice system now uses more informants to obtain drug convictions, and authorizes more wiretaps to track down traffickers.
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