The futility of the “war on drugs”

If you would like to review the sad details of this lost "war," visit Rolling Stone's recent article, "How America Lost the War on Drugs." Thanks to new research, U.S. policy-makers knew with increasing certainty what would work and what wouldn't. The tragedy of the War on Drugs is that…

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Meet a Beggar

I recently visited Chicago with my nine-year old daughter.  We stayed at an old hotel near the city center, just south of the Chicago River.  Though it was a high rent district, one of our neighbors worked as a beggar. When the beggar first approached us on that wide sidewalk…

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