The 1994 crime bill is back in the news; Donald Trump used it against Joe Biden in their recent election debate. Vlogger H.A. Goodman, a passionate Trump supporter, has also attacked the bill, citing Hillary Clinton who in 1996 as First Lady alluded to super-predators. According to Goodman, she was calling black youth super-predators, and this can only be construed as racism.
The process that ended Prohibition provides a template, writes former Senator Mike Gravel. By Senator Mike Gravel Special to Consortium News In the interest of full disclosure, I have been on the board of Cannabis Sativa, Inc., for five years,…Read more →
Ted Cruz recently asserted that the United States military needs to be sent to Mexico to attack the drug cartels head-on. This is a bad idea. But so is the drug war itself, both constitutionally and logically. Many who support the war do so with the best of intentions, but has it really helped? Or has it done more harm than good, like the Prohibition of the 1920s? Is this war even legal in the first place?
James Harrigan and Antony Davies discuss these questions in this week's Words and Numbers.
These days, when Mexico and the United States are mentioned in the same sentence, it usually has something to do with President Trump building a wall. So it’s a little bit ironic that Mexico beat the U.S. to tearing down the wall between its citizens and access to legal medical marijuana. On June 21, 2017, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto signed a decree legalizing medical cannabis in the country, with the strong support of the nation’s Lower House of Congress. [1]
To understand the opioid epidemic, we must understand the economics of the Iron Law of Prohibition.
"Demonstrating just how out of touch he is on the issue and denying medical research to the contrary Sessions also had the audacity to call pot "slightly" less terrible than heroine."
Modern day prohibition is not just about marijuana. After all, legislation is still restricting adults from possessing alcohol.
The pounding beat, the over-the-top performance which suggests complete abandon of caution, the longing for astonishing experiences backed by the emotion of unhinged exuberance – it all suggests the madness of alcohol abuse. Sia captures it in a song, just perfectly. She looks up at the dazzling lights of the chandelier and knows for sure that she can and will swing from it, because “party girls don't get hurt” and “she can’t feel anything.”
Woodrow Wilson continues to be invoked by politicians who believe America can achieve great things by warring abroad. Apparently, today’s policymakers have not learned anything from the debacle a century ago.
Fake anarchists, urgent change and Obama's legacy + this day in history w/Prohibition and our song of the day by London Grammar on your Morning Monarchy for January 16, 2017.
