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If you want to leave a comment on the video at YouTube you can use this link. Links to the organizations mentioned at the beginning of the talk. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Drug Policy Forum Of Texas And another organization not mentioned headed by retired Detective Howard Wooldridge: Citizens Opposing Prohibition Some thoughts on the…

“Constitutionalists” never mention the missing Drug Prohibition Amendment. Something the Republicans who voted against the 1914 Harrison Narcotics Act noticed.

Forgive my frivolity, but the 10th Amendment has become so meaningless these days that there is little point in resorting to serious arguments that it should still mean something. There is a broad, bipartisan consensus that it does not. So all I can do is wax nostalgically, like some libertarian kook who lacks the sense…

Reviewing Rush Limbaugh’s CPAC speech, John Hawkins warns the conservative movement that losing the next election might be more devastating than what has already happened: Conservatives have better solutions than either the left or the moderates in our own party can come up with — ready to go, ready to improve the lives of Americans…

The latest Classical Values poll got me thinking about “original intent” (as well as “original meaning“) as opposed to the “living, breathing Constitution” doctrine in Constitutional Law. While the Eighth Amendment prohibits “cruel and unusual punishment,” history shows that the whipping post was a standard punishment at the time of the founding, and George Washington…

So how long has Constitutionalism been dead? There are varying theories. I do have one data point. The missing Drug Prohibition Amendment. Missing since the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914.

Ed Driscoll is discussing the socialist roots of Fascism and how Communists in America followed the Soviet Party line. Ed notes a bit by Ann Coulter entitled “From meth cook to Hitler apologist.” Which prompted me to leave a comment about Republicans in America following the Communist Party Line. ============== Meth cookery is because we…

This picture has gone viral. History intrigues people, especially when it is history, and even more especially when it is shocking history. And let’s face it, it really is a shock for most modern Americans to consider that in those days, one could walk into a drugstore and, without so much as a prescription, buy…

As many of you know there is no love lost between me and “conservatives” over the issue of Drug Prohibition. So I went looking (via search engine) through “the American Conservative” for more material to use for a post. And what I found was the unexpected. An article entitled The Right & the Drug War.…

Here’s a trailer to a movie that (according to IMDb) I cannot see because it isn’t anywhere in my area: A pity I can’t see it, because the Forbes review called it “The Most Important Drug War Film You’ll Ever See.” It’s a film about the human consequences of execrable War on Drugs and there…

In my post A Trivial Little Matter, I asked: Why did the Republicans of 1914 vote against the Harrison Narcotics Act? (the act put the Federal government in charge of opiates and cocaine). None of the social conservatives who responded could answer the question. Now if they frequent this blog I’m sure they think of…

We have a fair number of Conservatives who read this blog. And because of that I get chided all the time about my obsession with Drug Prohibition. Fine. I have a question for my Conservative critics. (Please. Only those of you who are dyed in the wool Conservatives answer the question. The rest may comment…

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we…

I have been getting on nostalgia kicks lately, and it has long fascinated me how this country survived for so many years when drugs (including highly addictive drugs like heroin and cocaine) were sold freely over the counter or in the mail without prescription. That sort of grotesque liberal excess ended in 1914 with the…

In my endless quest to understand the nexus between morality and immorality, I found myself returning to an observation I made the other day in the context of 1920s speakeasies: Not a SWAT team in sight! In the days when morality reigned, the police could be paid off. Now that there’s no right and wrong,…

What is pain, and why is it considered a question of morality in the minds of so many people? To most linear, logical thinkers (and engineering types like my esteemed co-blogger M. Simon) the question will seem ridiculous, as it strikes such people as self-apparent that pain has nothing to do with morality. Pain is…

The Government has scored another drug war success. Homeless people are now supplying meth precursors to underground drug labs. At the height of the methamphetamine epidemic, several states turned to a new weapon to disrupt the drug trade: electronic systems that could track sales of the cold medicine used to make meth. Tracking sales by…

Regular readers know what I think and how I feel about the war on drugs. I think the Fourth Amendment has been systematically violated, and the violations go a lot further than mere illegal searches of drug suspects. They seek legal power to test saliva of all stopped motorists, and they already have power to…

One of my ongoing arguments with the blogosphere in general (and this applies to left and right) is this idea that what you don’t write about is not only significant, but that your “omissions” are somehow damning. Not writing about something is taken by self appointed scolds as evidence that you don’t care, or even…

You learn something new every day. Congress failed to reapportion following the 1920 Census. The failure was in part the result of a difference of opinion over the method of dividing political power. Throughout the 1920s, Congress debated which of two mathematical models for reapportionment–whose outcomes for distribution of House seats differed–would be used. In…