What a Waste
- May. 10th, 2010 at 6:52 PM
Matt Welch writes in the Reason.com blog about President Obama's apparent hypocrisy regarding drug use by students. The drug war is serious and "There's nothing particularly democratic about locking up hundreds of thousands of people every year for consuming unauthorized medications." What a waste of lives and resources.
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