Regulation via #Legalization: Making drugs knowable, controlled, labeled, and overwhelmingly safer. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
Regulation through legalization protects kids from being lured into drug dealing. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
End the incentives for drug crime in America. End Drug Prohibition. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
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Prohibition Blunder July 2026 Newsletter
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There’s plenty of #corruption to go around thanks to the ongoing war on drugs. Read the blog post for the full scoop. www.prohibitionblunder.org/post/fatal-f... #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
Fatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Inviting Corruption
Over the course of an entire year, Common Pleas Judge Paul Michael Pozonsky took cocaine from an evidence locker and replaced it with baking powder.
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“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” — Sun Tzu #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
Perhaps nowhere could one of America’s most fortunate inheritances—federalism—be more valuable than in bringing actual control to the matter of drugs. Visit www.ProhibitionBlunder.org to find out how you can help. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
The Forgotten Blessing of Federalism
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“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect #liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.” — Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis
“Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse—for both the addict and the rest of us.” — Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
In the same way that overly strict parenting often increases rebellious behavior, a recent study by political scientist Dorothy Kronick and economist Juan Castillo highlights how militant policies often increase the violence they initially aim to curtail. Read our #blog post for the full scoop!
Fatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Endangering Citizens
In the same way that overly strict parenting often increases rebellious behavior, a recent study by political scientist Dorothy Kronick and economist Juan Castillo highlights how militant policies oft...
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“What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the #government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect #freedom to survive very long.” — Dr. Thomas Sowell #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
Instead of endorsement of regulation via legalization, what do you see on the websites of almost all politicians and candidates today? You see the statistics of the ugly death and violent dealing—that THEIR OWN POLICIES HAVE CAUSED. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
The Drug War's Last Gasp: Weaponizing Its Ineptitude
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“Let’s face it: The War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well-intentioned, but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave them felony records, oftentimes when they had no violent crimes.” — Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
“All #truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” — Arthur Schopenhauer #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
“Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of #crime and raise the quality of law enforcement.” — Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
“Only three things have been shown to never work: (1) Communism, (2) One-ply toilet paper, and (3) the War on Drugs.” — Unknown #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
As economist Tom Wainwright has observed, “In any other industry, the current approach to drug control would have been identified as faulty years ago.” What courageous and honest politicians will step forward to finally admit the facts? #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
Prohibition’s Promises Versus the Facts
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“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of #evil to one who is striking at the root.” — Henry David Thoreau #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
“If the resources now spent on criminalization of drugs were devoted instead to education and treatment, the cost and danger of drug use would be greatly reduced.” — United States District Judge John L. Kane, Jr. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
Thanks to Drug Prohibition, the classic, Norman Rockwell-esque picture of the friendly neighborhood cop serving up justice to citizens has become a picture of the heavily armed cop serving up citizens to justice. Read the Fatal Features blog here: www.prohibitionblunder.org/post/fatal-f...
Fatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Damaging Police-Citizen Trust
Thanks to Drug Prohibition, the classic, Norman Rockwell-esque picture of the friendly neighborhood cop serving up justice to citizens has become a picture of the heavily armed cop serving up citizens...
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“Believe me, after 20 years as a prosecutor and judge, I can assure you that we only catch the stupid ones.” — Judge Ronald Rose, United States District Court, Santa Ana, California #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
Believe it or not, there’s something much worse than the failures of Drug Prohibition: Its successes. Visit www.ProhibitionBlunder.org to see how you can be a vital help in stopping this madness. #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
Prohibition's Worst Failures? Its Successes
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“If my boys choose to go against what my husband and I are teaching them and use drugs, the very first thing we want is to make sure they don’t die. Unfortunately, death is much more likely if the drugs they get their hands on were produced on the underground market.” — Christina Dent
“It is difficult to understand why illegal drug addiction should be treated differently from alcoholism or nicotine addiction: all are basically #publichealth problems.” — United States Court of Appeals Judge Juan Torruella #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
“The advocates of the status quo stand firmly against any full or open discussion of #federal drug #policy, but what we really need to do is explore our options realistically, and tell each other the #truth.” — Judge James P. Gray #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
“What will it take for decision makers to display the wisdom and garner the #courage to end the disastrous #WaronDrugs and responsibly take charge of drug production and trade instead of leaving it in the hands of extremely dangerous and powerful international #criminal organizations?” — J. Dhywood
On December 23, 2022, the California Governor’s Office and the DEA jointly announced that in California alone in 2022, enough fentanyl had been seized to kill the entire population of North America—TWICE. Meaning over 750 million lethal doses. Visit www.ProhibitionBlunder.org to learn more.
What Our Seizures Mean
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“Alcohol and tobacco use by teens is at its lowest point in decades because of #regulations and #social norms, not #prohibition.” — Christina Dent, Curious: A Foster Mom’s Discovery of an Unexpected Solution to Drugs and Addiction, p. 157 #DrugProhibition #ProhibitionBlunder #EndTheWarOnDrugs
