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Keep Your Laws Off My Body

The case for legalizing drugs, prostitution, organ sales, and other consensual acts.

March 4, 2010

John Stossel

In a free country, we consenting adults should be able to do whatever we want with our bodies as long as we don't hurt anyone else. People who don't like what we do have every right to complain about our behavior, to boycott, to picket, to embarrass us. Bless the critics. They make us better people by getting us to think about what's moral. Let them mock and shame. But shaming is one thing -- government force is another. Prohibition means we empower the state to send out people with guns to force people to do what the majority says is moral. That's not right.

Fight the Power

The unfulfilled promise of �constitutional conservatism�

February 24, 2010

Jacob Sullum

The day before last weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., a group of prominent conservatives gathered a few miles away at the Virginia estate of our first president. Their Mount Vernon Statement swears fealty to a "constitutional conservatism" that "applies the principle of limited government based on the rule of law to every proposal" and "honors the central place of individual liberty in American politics and life." If only they meant it.

Virginia is For (Liquor) Lovers!

January 26, 2010, 1:53pm

Adrian Moore

Why Privatizing Liquor Stores in Virginia to Fund Transportation Makes Sense

July 22, 2009, 2:12pm

Leonard Gilroy

Bob McDonnell has announced an innovative proposal to get Virginia out of the liquor retail business and using a portion of the proceeds to invest in transportation.

The Catastrophe of What Passes for Alcohol Policy Analysis

What costs does alcohol impose on California's taxpayers?
Policy Brief 78

May 12, 2009

Edward Stringham

Is alcohol a good like other economic goods, or is alcohol a "catastrophe" that should be heavily taxed?

Which States Make the Most Beer?

April 21, 2009, 6:19pm

Adrian Moore

SloshSpot has a cool map and post showing the number of US breweries per capita.

Reason.tv’s “Beer: An American Revolution” video looks how government regulations have protected the big beer companies and how the "microbrew movement gave rise to massive consumer choice."

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