If You Want to End the Drug War Tomorrow, Support Reason Today! Nick Gillespie - Reason
go to original December 3, 2014

Since our founding in 1968, Reason has relentlessly exposed the war on drugs for what it is: an assault on individual rights that intensifies every social ill it claims to ameliorate.

In print, online, and in video, no other publication has so consistently and forcefully investigated the ways in which the prohibitionist mind-set destroys basic concepts of personal responsibility and restraints on government actors. The drug war shreds more than the dignity and livelihoods of the victims of no-knock raids gone horribly wrong and the people living in neighborhoods traumatized by the violence that inevitably attends to black markets. It also creates all sorts of moral hazards for law enforcement while shredding the Constitution and abetting the growth of the surveillance state.

For 46 years, Reason has revealed the sick ways that virtually every aspect of contemporary life - education, foreign policy, prison policy, popular culture - has been made to serve the goals of the drug war.

And with marijuana legalization fast becoming a reality, no journalistic venture is in a better position to explore the ways in which a post-prohibition America might flourish. That's one of the great benefits of taking a libertarian, "Free Minds and Free Markets" point of view. We don't just spin utopian schemes detached from brute reality and we don't just bow down at the altar of economic efficiency. We try as hard as hell to work through how freedom in intoxicants can best play out across every aspect of politics, culture, and ideas. Click through the image above to see our recent special landing page dedicated to mapping the "long, hard road to safe, legal pot."

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