Politics
Reason Staff | From the April 2024 issue
"Pot, and the impoverished undocumented immigrants who often bring it, are no longer flowing across the border at the rate they once were. This decline has virtually nothing to do with expensive security innovations at the border and everything to do with legalization in the United States. If it were any other industry, one imagines the president would be delighted: When it comes to pot, customers prefer to buy American."
David Bier
"The Wall Won't End Pot Smuggling at the Border. Legalization Will."
"It's just accounting. If you spend more than you earn, someone is giving you a loan. If the U.S. imports computers from China more than it exports soybeans to China, 'we' have to provide nice-looking IOUs—for example, engraved portraits of Ben Franklin that cost 12.5 cents each to print.........