Want to End the Drug War? Regulate Pot.

America passed a little-noted milestone in 2009 as drug overdoses outnumbered traffic fatalities for the first time ever to become the primary cause of accidental death . The cause? It wasn’t cocaine or heroin or some terrifying new criminal import. The doubling in drug related deaths over the …

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Written by Chris Ladd on Monday October 31, 2011

How Orrin Hatch Enabled the Snake-Oil Industry

Snake oil produced by the nutritional supplement industry can be huckstered in the most truth-defying ways thanks to a law co-sponsored by Senator Orrin Hatch. The New York Times this morning features a very appropriate scolding of Senator Orrin Hatch for his close ties to the dubious nutrition…

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Written by David Frum on Tuesday June 21, 2011