Drug War
Federal Grant Program Nationalizes Local Policing
Unconstitutional federal funding helps drive local policing priorities. The Operation Relentless Pursuit (ORP) initiative serves as a prime example. Attorney General William Barr announced the program in December 2019. ORP is intended to take on violent crime in seven...
The States Are Revolting Against the War on Drugs
by Mark Thornton, Mises Institute On the same day that Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that he would attempt to revamp the war on drugs, it came to my attention that potentially more important events regarding the war on drugs were taking place in Vermont,...
Massachusetts Bureaucrats Show Constitutional Ignorance While Fighting Voter-Approved Medical Marijuana
State officials hiding behind federal law have turned the will of Massachusetts voters into a bureaucratic nightmare. In 2012, Bay State voters overwhelmingly approved “An Act for the Humanitarian Use of Marijuana,” legalizing cannabis for medical use in the state....
Pot Legalization: Obama, SCOTUS Defend Local Control Against GOP Attacks
by Ryan McMaken, Mises Institute The nullification of federal drug laws by Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska has for years been flipping the usual narrative on political parties in the United States. “Local control” has long been regarded as the...