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The Liberal Conspiracy has interesting article on the drug decriminalisation in Portugal. Two highlights for me. The opening paragraph: The right predicted Bad Things: Drug use would explode, tourists would travel from far and wide to get high on the streets of Lisbon, law and order would collapse, and people would start riding around in […]
At Obama’s recent online town hall meeting the most popular question was whether he favoured legalising marijuana. There are plenty of persuasive arguments in favour: the revenues from sales tax and taking drugs out of the hands of gangs to name but two. It was suggested to Obama that taxation of marijuana might be a […]
Ezra Klein reports that A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies were published. Of the thirty-six negative studies, thirty-three were either not published or published in a form that implied a positive outcome. … To a doctor reading the published literature, 94% of the trials conducted were […]
As said, the economist magazine says legalize drugs (ht Carpe Diem). This isn’t a big issue to me personally – relative to what I see as “big issues” like the current recession. However, I can definitely see some good in legalizing (and taxing) drugs (something we were discussing here). For some reason though, it is […]
When it comes to economics the one single issue that seems to get everyone in a room in agreement is that GDP is trash. Here is a transcript from a typical conversation between me and an individual who hears I’m an economist: Individual: “You are an economist! You must agree that GDP is crap.” Nolan: […]
Via the Herald I spotted this State of the Nation report by the Salvation Army (Note: The core report can be found here). It is nicely put together, taking a whole series of publicly available data and making it fit for public consumption! Also I appreciate their focus on shining attention on issues that get […]