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The War on Drugs Is a War on Users The War on Drugs Is a War on Users Education beats eradication. The data has been saying so for years. Note: Commentary drawing on public statistics and studies. Not advice. Laws and numbers change; check primary sources. We’ve spent over a trillion dollars and fifty-plus years trying to eradicate drugs. What we mostly did was arrest the people using them. Roughly 80–87% of U.S. drug arrests are for simple possession, not dealing. That’s not a war on supply. That’s a war on users. And it hasn’t worked. What the numbers actually show Interdiction and eradication keep failing the basic test: drugs stay available, often getting stronger and cheaper over time. The “Iron Law of Prohibition” is real—crack down on one form and the market shifts to something more potent and easier to smuggle. Fentanyl is the latest version of that story. Overdose deaths climbed for decades under the current approach. Recent drops (welcome as they a...

When Questioning the Narrative Became an Offense: The COVID Years, Social Media Censorship, and the Fight for Free Speech There was a time when I could post something on Facebook about vitamin C, vitamin D, or zinc and find myself facing restrictions or warnings. Think about that for a moment. I wasn't necessarily claiming these supplements cured COVID-19. I was discussing their established roles in human nutrition and immune function. These were legitimate subjects for public discussion. Yet during the pandemic, even conversations about general immune health could become entangled in social-media misinformation policies. And it wasn't just vitamins. I remember trying to discuss reported vaccine side effects. Some reports were anecdotal. Some were emerging observations that deserved further investigation. I wasn't suggesting that every report was proven or that every adverse event was caused by vaccination. I wanted to be able to discuss them. Apparently, even a...