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Drug Addicts As Rational Actors: Rethinking the science of addiction

May 7, 2014 by cathyreisenwitz

How do you justify taking away someone’s agency? The easiest way is to claim they didn’t have it in the first place. For a long time, both popular media and information sources on the subject have depicted drug addicts as zombies incapable of making rational choices. Helpguide.org describes drug addiction as causing “changes in your brain,” which … [Read more…]

Posted in: Civil Liberties Tagged: Agency, Drug War, Drugs

How the Silk Road Shutdown Makes Everyone Less Safe

October 10, 2013 by cathyreisenwitz Leave a Comment

It took someone named Dread Pirate Roberts to create a way for people to buy and sell illegal drugs without the threat of getting hurt and with little threat of getting ripped off. His deep website, Silk Road, was the eBay of the underworld until it was seized by the FBI last week. When the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Civil Liberties, Economics Tagged: BTC, Cryptocurrency, Drug War, Silk Road

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