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** FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2020
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Prohibition was a grand failure at resisting evil. It called so much attention to alcoholic beverages and engendered so much rebellion against legal constraints that when it was repealed, far more alcohol was being consumed than before prohibition went into effect. Now we are repeating the same folly by our "war" on narcotics, which simply makes it the "forbidden fruit," drives up the market price, turns it into a business far more lucrative than any alternative form of employment, leads to the recruitment of children as sellers, lookouts, and deliverers, prompts gang wars over turf and mindless murders and robberies to obtain cash to buy the coveted drugs.
-- Walter Wink


** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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November 6, 2020
Libertarian Reformers vs. the Non-Aggression Principle ([link removed])
The core principle of libertarianism is the non-aggression principle. It holds that it is illegitimate to initiate force against other people or to support the initiation of force against other people. A question naturally arises: Why do some libertarians favor welfare-warfare state reform measures, given that such reform measures involve the initiation of force against others? Vouchers Consider the school voucher ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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CONSTITUTION
Of Course They Are Unconstitutional ([link removed])
by Laurence M. Vance
The Future of Freedom Foundation
DRUG WAR
It’s Time To Admit: Drugs Won The War On Drugs ([link removed])
by Art Carden
Forbes
November 3: D-Day in the War to End the War on Drugs ([link removed])
by Thomas L. Knapp
Garrison Center
Oregon’s Decriminalization Vote Might Be Biggest Step Yet to Ending War on Drugs ([link removed])
by Natasha Lennard
The Intercept
Thirty-Six and Counting: More States Legalize Marijuana Despite Federal Prohibition ([link removed])
by Mike Maharrey
Tenth Amendment Center
DRUG WAR
Christians Like Me Believe We Must End the Drug War to Win It ([link removed])
by Bonnie Kristian
Christianity Today
This Election, a Divided America Stands United on One Topic ([link removed])
by Jonah Engel Bromwich
New York Times
Americans Have Declared the Drug War Is Over ([link removed])
by Anthony L. Fisher
Business Insider
Voters Put a Major Dent in the Drug War — That’s Good ([link removed])
by Dan King
The Hill
‘Taking Sledgehammer’ to Failed US Drug War, Oregon Votes to Decriminalize Narcotics as Five States Legalize Marijuana ([link removed])
by Julia Conley
Common Dreams


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** EVENTS
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