The Mexican Supreme Court legalized recreational use of marijuana and Colombia’s Constitutional Court legalized adoption by gay couples.
Tag Civil Liberties
None of the alleged problems of legalizing prostitution disappears with the prohibition approach. But many of the problems of criminalizing sex work disappear with legalization.
The initiative has been strongly opposed by ridiculous pseudofeminists who don’t understand that prostitution is not sex slavery.
All marriages should be contracts between two or more consenting adults of any combination of sexes — now, *that* is equality!
There is still much room for improvement because this is still rather discriminatory: it *discriminates against non-Rastafarian consumers (religious privilege)*, it discriminates against those who consume more than the minimum dose and it discriminates against consumers of drugs other than marijuana.
Yes, violence numbers are going down, but the end doesn’t justify the means. Throwing away civil liberties should be the last resource for any person in public office, not the go-to solution.
Johann Hari is announcing the launch of his new book, Chasing the Scream, about the ‘war on drugs’:
Last week we learned two members of One Direction smoked a joint while touring in Peru. Now, the band leader…
Phoenix city program that arrests sex workers in the name of saving them. In five two-day stings, more than 100 police officers targeted alleged sex workers on the street and online. They brought them in handcuffs to the Bethany Bible Church.
Last year, Ugandan MPs passed homophobic laws. Well, those laws were just signed by president Yoweri Museveni:
I first disliked François Hollande when he kept a ban on GMOs. Now I really can’t stand the guy…
Everyone is keeping an eye on Uruguay with the so called ‘legalization’ of marijuana. Me? I’m terrified that almost no…
My fellow SINner James has a post on the war on drugs in which he says:
During his hate-mongering Brazilian tour to indoctrinate teenagers, pope Francis said he was against legalising drugs:
There are still heroes out there:
I really didn’t wanted to write this, mainly because I am no Andrew Breitbart. But, at the same time, I…
For some time now I’ve considered Barack Obama to be a disgrace on representing the free world. His opposition to…
To ‘protect’ the young, that’s the excuse: The South Korean government has laid out plans to install software on…
Contrary to all expectations, Colombia is currently debating a bill on marriage equality. Of course, mental slaves of the Catholic…
I’m a civil libertarian, so it is understandable if I don’t like it when Government chops off our individual freedoms…