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FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2025

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.
 
Supreme Court Justice John Marshall, Cohens v. Virginia [1821]

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August 14, 2025 The ostensible purpose of the U.S. war on drugs is to prevent Americans from getting their hands on illicit drugs and ingesting them. Think about that for a moment: The entire drug-war apparatus and the massive militarized drug-war police state exist for the purpose of preventing Americans from possessing and ingesting unapproved substances that they wish to possess and ingest. I consider that ...
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