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

A Tax Plan for Our Brighter Future

A Tax Plan for Our Brighter Future paper-digital In Louisiana’s Comeback: A Tax Reform for Our Brighter Future, the Pelican Institute identifies the state’s significant tax problems and proposes a path to set the state in a brighter direction, including flattening the personal and corporate income taxes to 3.5% rates, reducing the number of tax preferences, eliminating...

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