This year marks the 75th anniversary of federal marijuana prohibition in the United States. It only took 13 years for Americans to realize the futility of alcohol prohibition.
America’s ambivalent relationship with drugs and medication pushes us to ignore critical differences between drugs, while failing to appreciate useful similarities.
If the Right really believed that firms with lavishly paid execs can do without taxpayer support, they wouldn't be wasting their time ranting against public broadcasting.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint asking the Louisiana Bar to investigate Vitter's violation of the state's lawyerly conduct rules for his ties to prostitution.
Now that the climate for political candidates has eased on personal drug use, we should focus on punishing elected officials who still believe in the drug war.