An excerpt from his 21 Solutions to Save the World:

The largest single change for the better in U.S. foreign policy, and one that could be accomplished simply by an act of political will, would be the abandonment of the socalled War on Drugs. This last relic of the Nixon era has long been [...]

At the end of this week, or early next week, the U.S. Senate committee that handles education is considering repealing or scaling back the law that strips financial aid from college students with drug convictions. SSDP’ers have been on top of this and the prospects for reform look very good. They also report “that [...]

This is a work of art. Dick Morris and Eileen McGann have the slimiest piece of work I’ve seen in some time in today’s New York Post: A Drug War Dilemma. The piece is actually about the Colombia free trade agreement (which Morris and McGann support), but the authors have chosen to frame it [...]

Sorry I’ve been out of touch the past few days. It’s a very busy time at the university, with only a couple of weeks left for the year. And each year in April, the students have a four-square marathon to raise money for scholarships. Four-square? Yes, the game you played in 5th grade, although [...]

Radley Balko has an absolute must-read post over at Hit and Run

The more appropriate response to “more users” argument is “so what?” A slight rise in the number of recreational drug users is only a problem if you believe that there’s something inherently immoral and destructive about smoking a joint or snorting a [...]