Jan 15, 2020
The 18th Amendment was ratified a century ago, beginning the United States’ fourteen-year experiment with prohibition. An Amendment was needed because the Constitution did not give the federal government the power to ban alcohol. Yet, today, the federal government bans recreational drugs and puts medicinal drugs under the control of the FDA. But, the Constitution also doesn’t give the government the power to regulate drugs. Either the 18th Amendment wasn’t necessary a century ago, or federal drug controls are unconstitutional today.
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The optimal GPA
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/study-says-there-is-optimal-failure-for-learning-more-efficiently/
Too many 4.0s
https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-graduated-cum-laude-so-did-everyone-else-1530523801
Weed in Atlanta
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/apd-disbands-drug-unit-fight-real-crime/
Foolishness of the week
Bernie Sanders worked for his money
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aaronfreedman/bernie-sanders-is-rich-but-hes-a-worker
Topic of the week
Legal status of marijuana by state
https://disa.com/map-of-marijuana-legality-by-state
Bootleggers and Baptists
https://www.amazon.com/Bootleggers-Baptists-Economic-Persuasion-Regulatory/dp/1939709369
18th Amendment
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendment/amendment-xviii
21st Amendment
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendment/amendment-xxi
Wickard v. Filburn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
You used to be able to buy heroin at Sears
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/sears-roebuck-bayer-heroin/580441/
What can Colorado teach us about legalizing weed?
https://fee.org/articles/four-years-on-what-can-colorado-teach-us-about-legalizing-weed/
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