Prohibition created the perfect storm for the mass incarceration of ethnic minorities, who’d been driven into the contraband trade through inequality of economic opportunity, then zealously policed for being involved
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What Prohibition teaches us about race relations in the U.S.
Prohibition propaganda leveraged anti-black racism, anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiment with stories and images that painted various “others” as debauched, immoral and a threat to wholesome white families wrapped in the American flag
As Canada makes marijuana legal, the U.S. resorts to Prohibition-inspired tactics
Opinion: America’s own history reveals the depths of its reportedly old-fashioned approach to sharing a border with a nation where weed is legal
Mumbai’s party-pooper
A crusading cop has brought prohibition to the city, to the dismay of its cosmopolitan residents
NYC’s noble experiment
It’s part of a journalist’s job description to be an unflinching, rational observer in the face of phenomena that tempt one to recoil or spew: a crime scene, a mass grave… in this spirit, and in the spirit of Bryan Caplan’s Ideological Turing Test, I asked myself, “What’s the best possible defence one could make of New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed Big Gulp Ban*?” Bloomberg, as you may have heard, intends to outlaw the serving of sugary beverages in bottles or cups larger than 16 ounces at city-regulated food establishments.
Have you ever really looked at your hand?
Bruce Cheadle harshes the buzz on legalizing marijuana.
The ecstasy and the agony
If the government makes it impossible make pure MDMA, is it really surprising when dirty MDMA hits the market?
Mitchel Raphael on politicians and drugs, plus the metalhead MP
A Tory’s take on the drug war, The MP who wears Pierre Berton’s bow ties, and Metalhead MP loves Ottawa
Positively gleeful
A new book recalls Canadians’ happy embrace of Prohibition