Prohibition Is a Crock: Americans (Probably) Spend as Much on Recreational Drugs as They Do on Booze
A newly-issued Rand Corporation report (see below) indicates that Americans spent almost $150 billion on illegal drugs in 2016. To...
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Fargo Is Drunk Because People in Fargo Like to Be Drunk
One of the big reasons I tend toward the conservative/libertarian end of the political spectrum is that so much of...
Why North Dakota Should Legalize Pot: Arrests Involving Marijuana Have Increased 119 Percent Since 2009
Over the weekend my colleague April Baumgarten wrote an eye-opening piece about drug arrests in North Dakota. Particularly startlingly was...
Leave It to the Government to Lose Money Selling Booze
The booze industry is pretty resilient. At one point our nation literally had a constitutional amendment outlawing the sale of...
This Is What North Dakota Is Avoiding by Keeping Tobacco Taxes Low
A ballot initiative to implement a massive tax hike on tobacco products in North Dakota failed miserably last year. Nearly...
The Wrong Marijuana Measure Made North Dakota’s November Ballot
This week we got news that one measure related to legalizing marijuana for medicinal use (kind of, more on that...
Justin Vega: End Marijuana Prohibition
Were it that we could, just once, look back on history and actually learn from our own mistakes, the issue...
Marty Riske: Prohibition Doesn't Work And Never Has
Since President Richard Nixon founded the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) 45 years ago, millions of our young have been sent...
Will Pot Farms Be The New Indian Casinos?
Some tribal leaders - including Tex Hall, former tribal chairman for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara nation - want to...
It's Come To This: Kids Now Bootlegging Sugary Drinks In School
It's a sign of the times. Defying a ban on sugary drinks at his school, which only allows diet sodas,...
