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Bush-era porn prosecution ends in guilty plea
When Mary Beth Buchanan, the U.S. attorney for western Pennsylvania, accused Robert Zicari and Janet Romano of distributing obscene material in...
Reason, 07/01/09 by Jacob Sullum · More from publication -
DEA tax collectors: medical marijuana raids
DURING HIS presidential campaign, Barack Obama repeatedly promised to call off federal raids on medical marijuana providers in states that allow...
Reason, 07/01/09 by Jacob Sullum · More from publication -
Drug control begets gun control: the violence in Mexico is caused by prohibition, not firearms
DURING HIS April visit to Mexico, President Barack Obama suggested that Americans are partly to blame for the appalling violence associated with...
Reason, 07/01/09 by Jacob Sullum · More from publication -
Downsize me
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I don't like what you re proving here," Tom Naughton's doctor tells him toward the end of Fat...
Reason, 07/01/09 by Jacob Sullum · More from publication -
Birth of a cocaine factoid: a prohibition-friendly estimate of drug-related deaths turns out to be bogus
SCATTERED AROUND the Web, mostly at sites dealing with drug addiction, is a seemingly authoritative "Cocaine Timeline" that includes this 1912...
Reason, 06/01/09 by Jacob Sullum · More from publication -
Cell blocks for cell hacks: iPhone I.P
IF YOU MISPLACE your keys, no law prohibits you from picking the lock on your car. But if you try to get past the lock on your cell phone, you...
Reason, 06/01/09 by Jacob Sullum · More from publication -
Price of prohibition: drug policy and Latin America
AMERICAN OFFICIALS cite the appalling levels of violence in Mexico, caused by an escalation of the war on drugs, as an argument for escalating the...
Reason, 06/01/09 by Jacob Sullum · More from publication -
The calm before the storm
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On his 1950s TV show, Milton Berle jokingly called himself "Uncle Miltown," in praise of the drug...
Reason, 06/01/09 by Jacob Sullum · More from publication -
The indefinite future of indefinite detention: President Obama may close Guantanamo, but the policy it represents will continue
BARACK OBAMA promises to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by January. But the policy the prison has come to symbolize, indefinite...
Reason, 05/01/09 by Jacob Sullum · More from publication -
Pennsylvania railroad: juvenile court corruption
IN 2004, responding to concerns about the unusually high rate and cost of juvenile incarceration in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Judge Mark A....
Reason, 05/01/09 by Jacob Sullum · More from publication
