Dry January Should Be Drug Free
There is nothing at all objectionable about the Dry (or semi-dry) January idea. The National Institute on Alcoholism reports that there were some 13,000 drunk-driving-related deaths in 2021—and that,...
View ArticleOn ‘Safe’ Injection Sites, New York Can Learn from Governor Newsom
Governor Newsom of California has uncharacteristically veered from the progressive policy playbook by vetoing a bill that would have legalized so-called “safe injection” sites in the Golden State. Mr....
View ArticleResults, Please
The supervised drug-injection nonprofit OnPointNYC, which runs city-authorized sites in East Harlem and Washington Heights, trumpeted its first-year results last week, claiming 500 lives saved from...
View ArticleWhatever Happened to “Just Say No”?
President Biden’s decision to pardon some 6,500 federal offenders convicted of marijuana possession is much more than a legal action, even if it is perhaps justified to clear employment barriers for...
View ArticleNY’s Cannabis Control Board Is Failing Job One: Protect Public Safety
New York’s Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act passed more than a year and a half ago, but even as illegal weed shops and public puffing proliferate, the Cannabis Control Board has yet to adopt...
View ArticleWhy New York City’s Drug Death Epidemic Is No Surprise
Drug overdose deaths in New York City have hit a record high and it comes, tragically, as no surprise. As reported by the city Department of Health last week, 2,668 New Yorkers died from overdoses in...
View ArticleHoward Husock on “The Seth Leibsohn Show”
Howard Husock, senior fellow in Domestic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, discusses his piece in the New York Post, “Why New York City’s Drug Death Epidemic Is No Surprise,” and...
View ArticleThe Influence of Medicare Part D on the List Pricing of Brand Drugs
Abstract Objective To compare the Medicare Part D market share of brand drugs with their net-to-list price ratio. Data Sources and Study Setting SSR Health Brand Net Price Tool and Medical Expenditure...
View ArticleThere Is No Proof “Safe Injection Sites” in NYC Actually Work
There is no doubt the Adams administration’s decision to open five more “safe injection sites” by 2025 is motivated by a sincere effort to reduce the wave of drug overdoses that claimed the lives of...
View ArticleAs Fentanyl Overdose Crisis Hits Americans Hard Where’s Proof That “Safe...
As recently as his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden decried the wave of fentanyl overdose deaths in the U.S., decrying the fact that, as he said, “fentanyl is killing more than 70,000...
View ArticleI Don’t Want to Smell You Get High
Imagine you’re in the heart of New York City—for example, on the steps of Madison Square Garden. One of the very first things you would notice there, no matter the time of day or the weather, would be...
View ArticleFollow the Money as Hochul Floats Tobacco Ban While Pushing Legal Marijuana
Governor Hochul has floated the idea of banning all sales of tobacco products in New York State, even as she urges New Yorkers to purchase and partake of now-legal cannabis. It’s not easy to see these...
View ArticleLegalizing Marijuana Is a Big Mistake
Of all the ways to win a culture war, the smoothest is to just make the other side seem hopelessly uncool. So it’s been with the march of marijuana legalization: There have been moral arguments about...
View ArticleWhy Does NY Campaign to Stop Smoking but Not Illicit Drug Use?
The New York drug policy philosophy — what might be called making drug use safe, legal and everywhere — has hit some serious snags. On Monday, US Attorney Damien Williams warned that he may shut down...
View ArticleThe War on Drugs Is Necessary and Just
Richard Nixon is said to have begun America’s war on drugs on June 17, 1971. In a press conference, he declared drug abuse “public enemy No. 1” and asked Congress to provide the funding for an...
View ArticlePreparing for the Federal Legalization of Cannabis
Event Summary On October 25, AEI’s Stan Veuger and Brian J. Miller hosted Rep. David Joyce’s (R-OH) Chief of Staff Amanda Kain, Paul J. Larkin of the Heritage Foundation, and Sheri L. Orlowitz of the...
View ArticleHow to Halt New York’s Ubiquitous Illegal Pot Blight
The state Office of Cannabis Control has not demonstrated any capacity to control illegal pot distribution — more than 8,000 unlicensed “dispensaries” are thought to be operating in the city. The...
View ArticleLiberals Reap Consequences of Their Homeless Policies
It’s cliche to observe that socially conservative views emerge when liberals are “mugged by reality.” But when it happens to the governor of California and the local leadership of Portland and...
View Article“Harm Reduction” Is No Solution
Advocates of so-called safe-injection sites are seizing on a new study that finds crime has apparently not increased in East Harlem and Washington Heights neighborhoods featuring overdose-prevention...
View ArticlePost-Prohibition Pot Regulation: Should It Be More Like Tobacco?
Recreational cannabis is now legal in 24 states and more are likely to follow suit. But the black market in pot has not disappeared; in fact, it has continued to thrive. New York City alone is...
View ArticleSafe-Injection Sites and Crime
Only two government-sanctioned “safe-injection sites” operate in the U.S., one in East Harlem, the other in Washington Heights. Their impact—on both those who use their facilities to inject hard drugs...
View ArticleBiopharma Venture Capital and the Inflation Reduction Act
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 is the most significant reform to US prescription drug pricing in two decades and the first expected to result in a net reduction in Medicare drug costs....
View ArticlePreventing Weed Smoking — Not More Weed Shops — Is What NYC Needs Now
There’s no getting around the fact that New York’s retail cannabis rollout has been a mess. A few dozen legal weed shops have been swamped, per the most recent count, by at least 2,000 illegal...
View ArticleDouglas Murray Investigates: America’s Drug Crisis
Sally Satel and others discuss America’s drug crisis and the unsuccessful efforts to combat it The post Douglas Murray Investigates: America’s Drug Crisis appeared first on American Enterprise...
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