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Drunk and Defiant: 'A Bar Song (Tipsy)' Tops the Charts Jul. 10, 2025
Every year, there's a song of summer. It's often something to argue over when conversation lags at t... Read More
Modern Speakeasies Recall a Rowdy Past Jan. 25, 2025
By Victor Block "The Little Rascals" was a series of movie shorts that ran from 1922 to 1938, then w... Read More
Prohibition Museum Recalls a Turbulent Time in American History Jun. 08, 2024
By Fyllis Hockman The entrance immediately transports you to the era just preceding Prohibition, whi... Read More
Prohibition's Lasting Effect on the Criminal Justice System Apr. 09, 2024
In the thick of Prohibition, Justice Benjamin Cardozo famously lamented that, under the exclusionary... Read More
When Will Politicians Learn Banning Cigarettes Will Never Work? Nov. 07, 2023
One of the most enduring lessons of American history is that the banning of liquor sales and consump... Read More
Rescheduling Marijuana Would Leave Federal Prohibition Essentially Untouched: Although the HHS-Recommended Change Would Benefit Researchers and the Cannabis Industry, It Would Not Resolve the Conflict Between State and Federal Marijuana Laws Sep. 06, 2023
For half a century, reformers have been urging the Drug Enforcement Administration to reclassify mar... Read More
Methanol-Tainted Liquor and Xylazine-Tainted Fentanyl Illustrate the Same Prohibitionist Peril: While the Lethal Effects of Iran's Booze Ban Are Widely Recognized, Politicians Ignore Similar Consequences From US Drug Laws Jul. 24, 2023
When the celebrated Iranian artist Khosrow Hassanzadeh died of methanol poisoning this month, everyo... Read More
Methanol-Tainted Liquor and Xylazine-Tainted Fentanyl Illustrate the Same Prohibitionist Peril: While the Lethal Effects of Iran's Booze Ban Are Widely Recognized, Politicians Ignore Similar Consequences From US Drug Laws Jul. 19, 2023
When the celebrated Iranian artist Khosrow Hassanzadeh died of methanol poisoning this month, everyo... Read More
My Word to the Relaxed, Easygoing, Americano Oct. 13, 2022
WASHINGTON — The left-wingers of our great country are steadily expanding the legalization of ... Read More
Looking for Values Sep. 06, 2022
As popular as wine is today, it's still seen as fairly pricey by regular consumers, so daily consume... Read More
Regional Palates Jun. 21, 2022
If you're a wine lover and you've lived all your life in New Jersey or Virginia, chances are you lik... Read More
For Men, Are Two Drinks Really Too Much? Aug. 27, 2020
A federal health panel now recommends that men consume no more than one alcoholic drink a day. For 3... Read More
Breonna Taylor and the Moral Bankruptcy of Drug Prohibition: She Would Still Be Alive If Politicians Did Not Insist on Using Violence to Enforce Their Pharmacological Prejudices Jun. 24, 2020
Last Friday, three months after Louisville, Kentucky, police officers gunned down a 26-year-old EMT ... Read More
Are Americans All-In for a Long Coronavirus War? Mar. 20, 2020
"It's a war," says President Donald Trump of his efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic, and li... Read More
Relief for Victims of Pot Prohibition: Cory Booker's Marijuana Justice Act Highlights Moral Imperative of Automatic Expungement Mar. 06, 2019
Cory Booker's Marijuana Justice Act, which he reintroduced last week, would rehabilitate the much-ma... Read More
Legal Weed Jan. 09, 2019
Ten states and Washington, D.C., have now legalized adult use of marijuana. Supporters of America's... Read More
Overdose Deaths Are the Product of Drug Prohibition Apr. 12, 2018
During Prohibition, drinkers never knew what they would get when they set out to slake their thirst.... Read More
Cruel and Stupid May. 17, 2017
President Trump's attorney general, Jeff Sessions, ordered federal prosecutors to seek maximum penal... Read More
Cocktail Culture: Meditation by Other Means Dec. 29, 2016
Stressed Americans seeking calm through decluttering and meditation might add a third activity: the ... Read More
