This past Thursday, on the night of the Vice Presidential debates, NORMLtv caught up with Libertarian Party presidential candidate, Governor Gary Johnson, and asked him questions regarding his views on marijuana legalization. In the interview, he discusses what he would do in regards to the war on cannabis if he were elected, why politicians are hesitant to back reform measures, and how he got into the issue while serving as New Mexico’s governor.  Read The Full Story

It is somewhat silly to assert that Republicans and Democrats, along with their appointed presidential candidates, are exactly the same on all issues. They have clear differences with taxation schemes, social welfare programs and social issues (abortion, gay marriage, gender issues, etc.). However, while I may be missing a couple, these represent a pretty narrow slice of all possible political issues. And for every other question of domestic and foreign policy, our two main parties seem to either be in agreement or unable to form their own nuanced opinion.  Read The Full Story

While Barack Obama and Mitt Romney scurry across swing states, appearing at packed rallies and high-stakes debates, Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson stood in a Dupont Circle bar specializing in board games Thursday evening, vying for the unswingiest of America’s electoral votes among a cozy group of small-government true believers.  Read The Full Story

President Obama has been a failure. On his watch, the American economy has significantly deteriorated largely because he has stifled free market forces by over-regulating them and because he has laden taxpayers with debt. Those two factors alone -- the federal government increasing the cost of doing business by telling businesses from physicians to major industries how to do their work, and the federal government spending trillions it doesn’t have and pushing the debts onto future generations -- are enough to sink any economy.  Read The Full Story