SACRAMENTO, Calif. — President Joe Biden announced this week that 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act has successfully lowered the cost of 64 drugs for seniors who are enrolled in Medicare. His administration is chalking it up as a major victory as…
Imagine that you’re in the Biden administration. You’ve just spent the last several months touting the “rule of law” against your Republican opponents, and last week you felt particularly smug when a New York jury convicted the former president of…
All this time America unfairly pegged Hunter Biden as the Prodigal Son. Testimony in a Wilmington, Delaware, court of law Wednesday proved him instead the White Rick James. He’s not like the real Rick James, a guy who could sing…
It was perfect. We had a blue VW Vanagon with white daisies, girlfriends with very long, very tangled, very blonde hair, and a dense cloud of marijuana floating above. We would strum the guitar insistently singing Lennon stuff, and, in…
As of Tuesday, President Joe Biden’s administration will reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III substance. The rescheduling does not legalize weed, but the Department of Justice hasn’t shown much interest in enforcing its prohibition on marijuana sale and possession since…
After having spent a significant portion of my life at the intersection of I-70 and I-75 (where, until recently, marijuana was not legal but still used), I chose to go to college in rural Michigan (where marijuana has been both…
Drug abuse isn’t just an individual plague. The consequences of drug use extend far beyond the individual user, though decriminalization advocates often don’t acknowledge this reality. As with no-fault divorce, orienting public policy purely around the desires of adults has…
SACRAMENTO — The issue of patents — the intellectual property rights granted to inventors that give them exclusive control over their invention — has long divided supporters of the free-market system. It’s always a contentious topic in libertarian circles, something…
California’s progressive Democrats like to present themselves as boundary-breaking advocates of, well, progress as they advocate policies that reject the desiccated notions of the past. This rarely turns out well, as they generally push for more government regulations, spending, and…
