Forty Year War on Drugs Incites New Orleanians to Protest

By Fergus Hodgson

06/20/2011

With festive music and diverse protestors, Women with a Vision led a peaceful march against what the organization describes as a trillion dollar “abject failure”—the now forty-year-old war on drugs.

TAGS: Drug War, Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, Loyola Economics Club, Walter Block, Women With a Vision

Nationwide Anti-War on Drugs Rally Coming to New Orleans

By Robert Ross

06/17/2011

On the eve of the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s declaration of a “War On Drugs,” activists around the country are preparing to march for a renunciation of the policy.

TAGS: Drug Policy Alliance, Global Commission on Drug Policy, Pew Center on the States, War on Drugs, Women With a Vision

Antitrust & Enforcement: Letting Markets Work without Empowering Government

In their report “Antitrust & Enforcement: Letting Markets Work without Empowering Government,” Ted Bolema, Ph.D., J.D., Antitrust and Competition Fellow at the Innovators Network Foundation, and Vance Ginn, Ph.D., Chief Economist at the Pelican Institute, write that while the current frustrations with the size of large tech companies and censorship practices may be warranted, giving...

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