Presidents & Nobel Laureates: "End War on Drugs"
The War on Drugs has been a policy failure of enormous magnitude. It has exacted a terrible cost in terms of ruined lives and wasted resources; it has hastened the devastation of the rainforests, eroded our institutions of civil society and weakened the rule of law. It must be...
De-criminalisation to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Indoor Cannabis Production?
I was intrigued by this posting on Freakonomics about a fascinating study by Evan Mills: “Energy Up In Smoke: The Carbon Footprint of Indoor Cannabis Production.” “Energy Up in Smoke” finds that indoor cultivation of marijuana is adding quite markedly to carbon emissions. Whilst the Freakonomics’ posting suggests that medical marijuana...