605: Why Are Drugs Illegal?

Why are some drugs illegal and others are not? Learn the sordid history of the War on Drugs and why it doesn't work.

Covered topics: Allen Russell, Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914, War on Drugs, Magic mushrooms, John Stuart Mill, Rick Doblin

Further Reading:

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/pie2023_drugs.html

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html

https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-0e463c390bedc7f6b25fb7e54b955b74

https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/07/03/the-travesty-of-it-all-court-upholds-mississippi-mans-life-sentence-for-1-5-ounce-of-marijuana-possession-and-his-case-is-not-an-anomaly/

https://lawliberty.org/the-simple-truth-about-j-s-mills-simple-truth/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Liberty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs

https://www.aclu.org/report/report-war-marijuana-black-and-white

https://www.cato.org/commentary/us-prisons-thriving-jim-crow-marijuana-arrests#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWrbUwNGoWc

https://fee.org/articles/how-15-ounces-of-marijuana-landed-this-man-a-life-long-prison-sentence/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haT4FrOYPtk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Truth_and_Lies_in_a_Nonmoral_Sense

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