August 27, 2019

How Not to Win an Argument About First Amendment Law

Ten ways to not win an argument about free speech and First Amendment law.

• How Not to Win an Argument About First Amendment Law

  By Walter Olson

Hemp Bill Leaves Texas Prosecutors in the Smoke

News that Texas effectively decriminalized marijuana through poorly written hemp-farming legislation has upset state lawmakers and confused law enforcement officials and prosecutors, and even though this de facto decriminalization was an accident, it was a good one.

• Hemp Bill Leave Texas Prosecutors in the Smoke

  By Jeffrey Miron and Erin Partin 

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