Tag: prohibition
Reddit AMA with Professor Jeffrey Miron of Harvard University
August 4, 2017 | Post
Dr. Miron has written over 100 op-eds and several books, including Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition (2004) and Libertarianism: from A to Z (2010).
Violent video games do not cause real-world aggression
March 22, 2017 | Post
Upon seeing a copy of the (now classic) fighting game Mortal Kombat, Senator Joe Lieberman announced his intention to introduce legislation that would prohibit the sale of such games to minors.
The battle to make America wet again
March 8, 2017 | Post
The forgotten story of how American women turned the tide against Prohibition and reclaimed the moral high ground from the dry movement.
Why can’t you pay for sex?
March 1, 2017 | Post
Consensual sex is legal. But as soon as one party offers cash to another in exchange for sex and that money is voluntarily accepted, it’s considered prostitution, and that is illegal.
Deregulation gets the beer flowing.
February 5, 2017 | Post
Breweries will open as long as it is profitable. When taxes and regulations raise the costs of opening a brewery, we will see fewer of them.
5 weird ways Prohibition still exists today
January 25, 2017 | Post
Prohibition was repealed more than 80 years ago, but we’re still feeling its policy hangover.