Jeffrey Rogers Hummel is assistant professor at San Jose State University where he teaches both economics and history. In 2001-2, Jeff was the William C. Bark National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is author of Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men; A History of the American Civil War, released the summer of 1996 by Open Court Publishers -- a book which Economist Mark Skousen said is the "best book ever written on the Civil War."

Jeff has also written scripts for audio tapes produced by Knowledge Products on the Constitution (narrated by Walter Cronkite) and on American Wars (narrated by George C. Scott). His articles and reviews have appeared in the Texas Law Review, International Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Economic History, Independent Review, and numerous other publications. He has contributed to the Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography and to a collection edited by Robert Higgs entitled Arms, Politics, and the Economy.

Jeff served as a tank platoon leader in the U.S. Army. He earned his undergraduate degree from Grove City College and his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin.

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"Individuals should be free to produce, exchange, and put into their own bodies any chemicals or substances they choose, whatever the health effects. Heroin laws are not merely counterproductive and costly; they are a fundamental violation of individual rights."

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