In a report [.PDF] that is being picked up by Janes Intelligence Group and others, Ryan King and Mark Mauer explain how the U.S. government now spends more on marijuana enforcement than ever before. More importantly, the report details the change in drug enforcement policy over the last 20 years, as well as the perceived effects of such policy on
In a move that has previously only been imagined in the punchlines of jokes, a group of emergency doctors in Great Britain is promoting the idea of a ban on long, pointed kitchen knives in a new editorial in the British Medical Journal . The recommendation comes in response to increases in knife attacks in recent years, a 17.9% increase in British
Coming as a shock to no one but socialists, an AP story is reporting the results of a congressional investigation which indicates that privately employed baggage screeners outperform TSA bureaucrats. The Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security’s reply: “We need more money for better technology.” Ahh, the same old bureaucratic song
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