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BBC 5 live investigates Silk Road and Bitcoins

N.B. I am not Davy Download episode MP3 [48:57] BBC’s “5 live investigates” programme spends 40 minutes discussing The Dark Web, in particular Silk Road, the online agorist marketplace, and Bitcoin, the new digital currency and method of payment used at Silk Road. I wish more Bitcoin proponents would embrace the Silk Road, and what [...]

The BBC: worst news organisation in the world?

Full disclosure: it’s my birthday, I’m 5 glasses of champagne in and I’m about to go to sleep. This can’t wait. From the BBC: Thousands are ‘at risk of alcohol death’ say doctors. I don’t know what makes me more sick, the state sponsored “liver disease specialists”, The Lancet for publishing their shite, the “coalition [...]

Ecstasy 160 times safer than smoking?

While we’re on the topic of drug logic from the last post. Why in the hell isn’t Ecstasy legal? The following statistics relate to the UK: 106,000 people die each year from smoking. [source] The most people to ever die in a single year from Ecstasy was 43 in 2001. [Source] There are around 10 [...]

Government proposes ignoring drug science

From the Guardian: Ministers will not be required to seek the advice of scientists when making drug classification policy in future, under new government proposals. Honestly, I’m losing energy with this shit. It’s summed up perfectly by a comment I saw on another site: “Science gets in the way of disinformation.” Well precisely… Hammer, meet [...]

Joe Rogan on Marijuana

Joe Rogan is pretty awesome: Sorry for the lack of proper editorial content lately. I’ve been pretty busy with work. I’m also looking for more guest bloggers so if anybody has anything to say on the topic of anti-statism and would like to get it published to a reasonably sized audience then shoot me an [...]

Where are 1% of American adults?

Shocked.

Zach Galifianakis smokes weed on live TV – My new hero!

The Hangover’s Zach Galifianakis show the world what a pair of brass balls looks like: Watch how smug, faux-libertarian host Bill Maher looks visibly uncomfortable despite putting on a weak fake laugh and quickly changing the topic. Gold. I was already a big fan of this guy anyway (if you only know him from The [...]

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