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Posted: April 18, 2012
Several millennia ago, Aristotle asserted that man was different from the animals because only he had the gift of (thoughtful) speech. The cursing generation seems intent on erasing that distinction as Mark Milke explains…
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Michael Cust is an MSc Philosophy and Public Policy student at the London School of Economics. He holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Alberta and an M.A. in political science from the University of Waterloo. He has previously held positions with The Fraser Institute, the Cato Institute, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, the B.C. Marijuana Party, and Stockwell Day's Canadian Alliance leadership campaign.
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Posted: July 22, 2009
A free-market in drugs is a social state of affairs where any individual would be free to produce, trade, or consume drugs free of any regulation or taxation and that the sole the purpose of government (in so far as drugs are concerned) would be to protect her in the possession of her drugs (and/or the means of production necessary to produce them) and to mediate any disputes she might have regarding her drugs. In this essay, I explain what it would mean to establish a free-market in drugs in Canada.
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