April 1997

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Web Articles

• Congress on Cannabis:

  An Exclusive Reason Survey on Medical Marijuana

Editor's Notes

• Computer Protection

  Nick Gillespie

  The market is the toughest regulator of all.

• Spinal Tap

  Rick Henderson

  Checking the backbone of the new Congress

• Laissez Fear

  Virginia Postrel

  Left and right agree-the market is their enemy.

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Treaties or Equal Treatment?

  Michael W. Lynch

• Captain Weatherman

  Brian Doherty

• Death and Taxes

  Brian Doherty

• Hillary and Ebonics

  Brian Doherty

• Big Country?

  Ed Carson

• Mixed Choice

  Ed Carson

• Ticks Are For Kids?

  Ed Carson

• Pot Pass

  Jacob Sullum

• Unjust Weights

  Jacob Sullum

• Keeping Canada Culturally Pristine

  Michael W. Lynch

• COPS on Hiatus?

  Nick Gillespie

• The Center Folds

  Rick Henderson

• Hair-Raising Laws

  Virginia Postrel

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Rick Henderson

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Sources

• Source

Columns

• Power Politics

  Ed Carson

  Supporters of federal power privatization have learned a lot from failures in the last Congress.

• Call of the Whites

  Charles Paul Freund

  The skeleton in environmentalism's closet is nature.

• Coffee, Tea, or Me

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Should a penny for your thoughts be illegal?

• Drug Test

  Nick Gillespie

  Polling Congress about medical marijuana

• Fusion Energy

  John J. Pitney, Jr.

  The case for multiparty candidates

Features

• Public Health Pot Shots

  Don Kates, Henry E. Schaffer & William B. Waters IV

  How the CDC succumbed to the Gun "Epidemic"

• Slouching Toward Phoenix

  Rich Karlgaard

  Conservatives gather at a swank, sunny resort to remind themselves how terrible the world is. The occasion is Dark Ages II, and it deserves the name.

• Judge Dread

  Walter Olson

  Robert Bork's hyperbolic assault on contemporary culture is a best-seller. But it has even his conservative allies backing away.

Interviews

• Risky Journalism

  Jacob Sullum

  ABC's John Stossel bucks a fearful establishment.

Book Reviews

• Trade Winds

  Brink Lindsey

• Change Reactions

  Brian Doherty

• Nice Distinction

  Loren Lomasky

• Spaceship Enterprise

  Kenneth Silber