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FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2025
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of the Roman decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggles and failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, and consuming wars.
 
– Will Durant, Caesar and Christ (The Story of Civilization III) [1944]

HORNBERGER'S BLOG
May 16, 2025
There Is Only One Way to Eradicate Mexico's Drug Cartels
There is only one way to eradicate Mexico’s drug cartels and the massive violence that has come with them. That one way is drug legalization — that is, the end of the drug war by legalizing the possession, ingestion, and distribution of all drugs. There is no other way to eradicate Mexico’s drug cartels. Longtime readers of The Future of Freedom Foundation know ...
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