Tag: drug crimes

Theodore Dalrymple: BC Drug Decriminalization: The ‘If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em’ Approach Is No Solution to Drug Abuse

Commentary In the face of bad behaviour, our societies have increasingly one response: retreat, appeasement, and surrender. In California, for example, shoplifting has been all but legalized. Think of the advantages: the police time saved, the young people unstigmatized by a criminal record, the economic redistribution in an unequal society, the racial justice furthered (insofar…


Biden Uses Clemency Powers for the First Time

President Joe Biden announced Tuesday the first use of his presidential powers to grant clemency, pardoning three felons and commuting the sentences of dozens more. The U.S. Constitution grants presidents the power to forgive convictions or shorten sentences. Biden is pardoning former Secret Service Agent Abraham Bolden, 86. Bolden became the first black man to…