Florida recently passed a law requiring welfare recipients to be tested for drugs and throwing them off welfare if they test positive. Governor Rick Scott justified it as saving taxpayers’ money and discouraging drug use. It turns out to be costing taxpayers more money than it saves them, because hardly anyone tests positive. This isn’t [...]
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Florida’s Drug Testing Law Not Working Out So Well
Posted in drugs, state politics, welfare policy, tagged drug testing, florida, welfare on August 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A Prediction About the Drug War
Posted in drugs, tagged drug legalization, Drug War on July 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
At The American Interest, Walter Russell Mead makes a prediction about the future of the drug war. Unlike many libertarians and legalization activists (whom he calls the “Stoner Lobby”), he believes that legalization would be a disaster – but that continuing the drug war would be a catastrophe. As a “least bad” option, he believes [...]
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