Jesse Ventura and Jen Hobbs have produced an important new book in Jesse Ventura’s Marijuana Manifesto. I can recall how, over forty years ago, the expectations of everyone I knew were that marijuana, if not all drugs, would be legalized in the near future. I don’t think many of us who were young at the time could have possibly foreseen the decades-long, utterly failed “war” on drugs that followed. This book chronicles the absurdity of our present drug laws. For instance, how can any “free” society justify imprisoning a Ross Ulbricht- a totally nonviolent cyber “criminal”- for what amounts to … Continue reading Decades of a Criminal War on Drugs