Smoke a joint. Target Liberty

Plenty are prepared to resist the top law enforcement official, a veritable Duterte in utero,  who declared that “good people don’t smoke marijuana.”

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The White House’s new war on drugs could drive up the HIV rate

What will be sacrificed, and what unkillable monsters created, in the name of a war against a plant?

…as black market entrepreneurs act rationally by lacing their illegal heroin with the synthetic substance.  Policymakers have created the environment, through drug prohibition, that induces heroin dealers to lace their product with a cheaper, more powerful, substance.  It’s economics, a subject policymakers brush aside in favor of the blind emotionalism that drives the drug war, which delivers drug users into the clutches of harder drugs, dealt by more dangerous businessmen.

Tinpot drug warrior, and walking hyperbole, Duterte, whose drug war unleashed a killing spree with a body count of 7,200, now bans smoking in public.

Legalize all voluntary interaction between consenting adults. All of it.

In response to the removal of confederate statues, instead of holding ridiculous torchlight vigils, let private buyers snag them and display them on private property.  Let the torch-bearers pool their money for a private statue and display it prominently on non-public property.

Thanks to the drug war. Bloomberg

I wonder if law enforcement and policymakers will realize their hand in the epidemic before it’s too late? Thousands of people became hooked on the hideously addictive prescription pain pills that flowed freely from doctors up until 2011, when policymakers took note of the class of addicts being created.  The flow of Big Pharma opioids was cut off, and so were the addicts.  So they go to the black market dealer of heroin down the road for their fix.  Wham. Instant heroin epidemic.

“Is the war on drugs a bigger threat than illegal drugs?”

The end result of the deadly ideas that Sanders has touted throughout his life: society ripping itself apart.  It’s also an inconvenient reality for the Left.

Ron Paul Liberty Report: Why the Left Refuses to Talk About Venezuela

But he’s not in the clear yet.  Glenn Greenwald explains.