Dec 16, 2019
Though adult use cannabis is rapidly maturing in many parts of the United States, the medical cannabis industry is still developing as well. It faces a different set of operational hurdles and challenges, is continuing to shift and develop, and remains the sole source of legal cannabis in a number of states, including...
Dec 9, 2019
Drug laws at the city, state, and federal levels have been used for almost a century to disproportionately punish people of color. Despite making up only 31.5% of the United States’ population, 46.9% of people arrested for violating drug laws are Black or Latino, and it’s never hard to find news stories of white...
Nov 25, 2019
Maine legalized medical use cannabis in 1999, long before many other states. However, after adult-use cannabis was legalized by a vote in 2016, it effectively stayed inaccessible for another two years, with licenses finally going live and prohibition being lifted on December 5th of this year and retail sales not...
Nov 4, 2019
If you dive deep into the history of federally forbidden substances, you start to see clear parallels in the history of alcohol and cannabis when it comes to how prohibitions occur (and why they fall apart). Dr. William Rorabaugh is here to talk all about it.
Dr. William Rorabaugh is a Professor of History at...
Oct 21, 2019
Throughout human history, economics has played a major part in setting policy and inspiring actions of all kinds, including prohibitions - and few have a deeper understanding of prohibitions than Dr. Mark Thornton.
Dr. Thornton is a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute and an economist who's written and spoken...