Some Thoughts on Human Achievement Hour
Some thoughts on marking 2014’s Human Achievement Hour (HAH). HAH was first suggested by my good friend Fred Smith of the Competitive Enterprise Institute as an annual celebration of the inventions and innovations that have enabled ever increasing numbers of people to live in better and better living standards. Those...
“So you condone illegal drugs then?” – A Response
Following my posting of “Coloradans Light Up 2014: Sale of marijuana for personal use legalised“, I was challenged: “So you condone illegal drugs then?” My response follows: The question of whether I “condone illegal drugs” presumes a relationship between one or more specific drugs and the law in a...
Coloradans Light Up 2014: Sale of marijuana for personal use legalised
High up in the Rockies, the good people of the State of Colorado are taking a bold, freedom-orientated step – a step that will also start to reduce the individual, familial, community and wider social harms done by making drugs illegal. For today, just over 80 years after the...