"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Ignoble Lie
A report released yesterday by the Global Commission on Drug Policy calling for the legalization or decriminalization of many drugs is generating quite a buzz (at least judging by the wide variety of people in my social network I have seen post it). The findings of the report are not terribly noteworthy–people have been making similar arguments for decades–but the list of political heavyweights on the commission is
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