No country locks up a greater proportion of its citizens than the United States of America, with the 2.3 million Americans currently incarcerated making up nearly a quarter of the entire world’s prison population. The reasons for this sad statistic are myriad and suggest that something is

Author: Derek Beres / Source: Big Think In 1953, long before shots of ayahuasca were paired with cacao elixirs at Burning Man Decompression parties, William Burroughs traveled around South America in search of the mystical beverage called yagé. Though Burroughs is remembered predominantly as a

Authored by Chris Calton via The Mises Institute, In a previous article, I wrote about how the war on drugs and the government monopoly on the legal system has created the Tragedy of the Commons in our justice system. Because legislators and police officers have every incentive to appear “tough on

Author: Andy Campbell / Source: HuffPost Get a Lyft from the bar, or get a lift to the slammer. Ohio Judge Michael Cicconetti has been ordering drunk driving defendants to download ride-hailing apps as part of their sentences. On June 6, a first-time offender who blew a .200 on a breathalyzer