Jacob Sullum on the 5 Best Drug Scares of 2013

Drug policy and rationality go
together like hot fudge and anchovies, says Senior Editor Jacob
Sullum. From marijuana to Salvia divinorum, from cocaine
to “bath salts,” from absinthe to Four Loko, panic precipitates and
perpetuates prohibition as activists, politicians, and yellow
journalists conspire to keep the American public alarmed about the
psychoactive substances other people are consuming. Sullum picks
five examples from the last year.

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