health issues

Can the Federal Government Ban Anything?

Libertarianism

Even though it is true that the government currently bans all kinds of things, I am asking a serious question. Let me expand and clarify it. Is the federal government ...

The Christian Case for Drug Law Reform

Culture

You do not have to smoke marijuana, inject heroin, or understand The Wire to realize that the War on Drugs is unconstitutional and immoral. Indeed, the drug war is anathema ...

Ending the War on Drugs

Book Reviews

Review of Dean Becker, To End the War on Drugs: A Guide for Politicians, the Press, and the Public (DTN Media, 2014), iv + 337 pgs., paperback. It was a ...

The Economics of Dallas Buyers Club

Economics

From EconStories, the makers of the “Fear the Boom and Bust” and “Fight of the Century”, comes a new web show all about economic in popular culture. Hence the title: ...

Why Do Constitutionalists Support the Drug War?

Politics

The latest ruse of some conservatives to garner the sympathy, support, and votes of libertarians is to declare that they are “constitutionalists.” Although they are sometimes referred to as “libertarians” ...

Hard Questions on the Drug War

Libertarianism

As I have maintained in all of my articles on the drug war, the war on drugs is a monstrous evil that has ruined more lives than drugs themselves. The ...

Sow It Everywhere

Book Reviews

Review of Martin A. Lee, Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana—Medical, Recreational, and Scientific (Scribner, 2012), vii + 519 pgs., hardcover. Although I don’t use marijuana for medical, recreational, ...

What Every Libertarian Needs To Know About Two Books on the Drug War

Book Reviews

Review of Mark A. R. Kleiman, Jonathan P. Caulkins, and Angela Hawken, Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), xxi + 234 pgs., ...

The War on Drugs is a War on Freedom

Book Reviews

Book review of The War on Drugs is a War on Freedom by Laurence Vance. Vance Publications, 2012. Orlando, FL. $9.95 at Amazon.com. To many newcomers to libertarian ideas – ...

The War on Private Property

Economics

Do you want to live in an authoritarian society? Do you desire an intrusive government? Do you wish for a government that is a nanny state? Do you yearn for ...

End the War on Kidneys! (and other News of the Week)

News

Recapping the interesting and significant news and articles of the past week. There is a terrible war on kidneys the government is waging, and it has to stop! LCC writer ...

Should Christians Support the War on Drugs?

Christian Ethics

Televangelist and founder of the Christian Coalition Pat Robertson, with whom I have major theological, philosophical, and political differences, recently said something that even I must acknowledge was important, truthful, ...

What is the Christian Libertarian position on recreational drug use?

Christian Ethics

Flip_syde87 asks on the Christian Libertarian FAQ: What is the Christian libertarian position on recreational drug use? Is it possible to support individual rights without being condemned as a pot ...

The Supreme Court and Obamacare

Libertarianism

The new term of the Supreme Court has just begun. All eyes are on the court, as it is expected to hear for the first time a case against Obamacare. ...

Why would Christians want prohibition?

History

Thanks to Jonathan Boatwright for this excellent submission. In today’s political climate, a hot button issue is the legalization of drugs and more specifically that of marijuana. In this essay, ...

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