Best of the Blogs Part II: Drugs, Immigration, and the Hotel “Death Ray”
If that title doesn’t increase readership of my posts, I don’t know what will.
My contribution this week to our “best of the blogs” feature (which I have taken license to interpret as “best of the blogs and other news read online…”) is even more random than usual.
First, the drug-related story that caught my eye in the relatively recent past. The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet reported on September 27th about a Cato Institute study showing that since Portugal decriminalized drug possession in 2001, drug use among adolescents has fallen, HIV infection rates fell, and addicts have increasingly sought help to overcome their addictions. The full story was in Time, here. An excerpt: