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Politicians just don’t learn. People die as police fight drug dealers. Marijuana dealers form gangs and fight among themselves. It’s so stupid. Especially because marijuana is relatively harmless. Finally, some states legalized it, hoping to put an end to the black market. But legalization hasn’t ended the violence. Why?...
In some states, rules for legal marijuana sales are ENDLESS.Legalizing the plant should have reduced black markets and crime. It didn’t because bureaucrats imposed regulations that strangle legal businesses.----So you don’t miss the weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://ift.tt/37hRbtg ----The regulations go...
On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem. I may seem like...
Use monetary rewards (or penalties) if need be. Here is Joshua Gans applying some game theory to the vaccine passport idea: Vaccine hesitancy is modelled as an endogenous decision within a behavioural SIR model with endogenous agent activity. It is shown that policy interventions that directly...
Shifting the goalposts is the patented approach of all totalitarians. Snatch away a little bit of freedom – harmless, right? Relax, it’s for a good cause. Temporarily hand some of that freedom back, but never all of it, reminding everyone that we’re still withholding freedoms...
(Don Boudreaux) TweetWall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley narrates this just-released short video on the life and legacy of the great Thomas Sowell. Read the Full Article here: >Cafe HayekCafe Hayek...
Selling raw milk remains illegal in many places in the United States, making some feel like modern-day moonshiners.------------------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_confirmation=1Like us on Facebook: https://ift.tt/1OFng0MFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reasonReason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective....
The American appetite for war and conflict has greatly deteriorated for good reason. For many citizens, the United States has been at war for most of their lives; those born in the 21st century will have never lived through a time of peace. It has...
And I actually would go so far as to say that I think that might be one of, if not the biggest technological challenge that our industry will face in the next decade. We tend to really celebrate things that are big, right? But I...