Drug Policy

• 'The Bill of Rights Is Not a Trick', Jacob Sullum, December 1, 2011
• Two Governors Ask the DEA to Reschedule Marijuana, Jacob Sullum, November 30, 2011
• Colorado Drug Warrior Busted for Meth Distribution, Jacob Sullum, November 30, 2011
• Should Judges Continue Imposing Sentences Congress Has Rejected as Unfair?, Jacob Sullum, November 30, 2011
• Reason Morning Links: Gary Johnson Gives up on New Hampshire, 200 Arrested at Occupy Los Angeles, Greece "Saved Overnight", Mike Riggs, November 30, 2011
• Do Medical Marijuana Laws Reduce Traffic Fatalities?, Jacob Sullum, November 29, 2011
• Reason.tv: Obama's DOJ Cracks Down on Medical Marijuana, Zach Weissmueller & Tracy Oppenheimer, November 29, 2011
• Newt Gingrich Says Drug Use Is "Antithetical to Being an American," Wants to Escalate Drug War by Impoverishing More Users, Mike Riggs, November 28, 2011
• 'Oh Yeah Man, We Got the Water Pipes Bro', Jacob Sullum, November 23, 2011
• Digital Drugs: The Gateway to the Gateway, Jacob Sullum, November 23, 2011
• Claiming Control of an Element, the DEA Puts an Old Man Out of Business. For the Children., Jacob Sullum, November 23, 2011
• More of These, Please: Obama's First Commutation, Jacob Sullum, November 22, 2011
• Two Decades of Peace, Love, and Marijuana, Nick Gillespie & Matt Welch, December 2011
• CBS Poll: Yes to Medical Marijuana, But What We Have Now Isn't So Medicinal, Lucy Steigerwald, November 18, 2011
• 20 Years Later, Mandatory Minimum Sentences Are Still Mindlessly Draconian, Jacob Sullum, November 18, 2011
• Review Questions Warnings About Meth's Mental Effects, Jacob Sullum, November 17, 2011
• Another Depressing Story of a Kid Narcing on His Parents, Lucy Steigerwald, November 17, 2011
• Drop Those Drugs, Jacob Sullum, November 16, 2011
• Obama War on Medical Pot Sweeps Washington Yesterday, Brian Doherty, November 16, 2011
• Everyone's a Federalist on Medical Pot, Until He's Elected, Jacob Sullum, November 16, 2011
• Colombia's President: 'I Would Talk About Legalizing...More Than Just Marijuana', Jacob Sullum, November 15, 2011
• The Best Way to Fight Mexico's Drug Cartels, Jacob Sullum, November 14, 2011
• California Appeals Court Upholds Local Bans on Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, Jacob Sullum, November 11, 2011
• Reason.tv: Pot Prevails! Rob Kampia Discusses Marijuana's Recent Political Triumphs, Tracy Oppenheimer & Nick Gillespie, November 11, 2011
• Cato Conference: Ending the Global War on Drugs, Jacob Sullum, November 9, 2011
• U.S. Attorney Cracking Down on Medical Marijuana Says 'California Law Doesn't Matter', Jacob Sullum, November 9, 2011
• Will Obama 'Reassert Himself' on Medical Marijuana?, Jacob Sullum, November 8, 2011
• Study: Medical Marijuana Doesn't Make the Kids More Reefer-Mad in Rhode Island, Lucy Steigerwald, November 3, 2011
• 10th Amendment Challenge to Medical Marijuana Crackdown, Jacob Sullum, November 1, 2011
• The Drug Czar Just Says No to Marijuana Legalization, Jacob Sullum, October 31, 2011
• Colorado Issues Licenses to Medical Marijuana Suppliers, Jacob Sullum, October 28, 2011
• Chicago May Decriminalize Marijuana Possession, Jacob Sullum, October 28, 2011
• Colombia's President Wants to Give Pot Peace a Chance, Jacob Sullum, October 27, 2011
• RAND Pot Dispensary Crime Study Retracted, Tim Cavanaugh, October 25, 2011
• Reason.tv: Former MTV VJ and Radio Host Kennedy on Medical Marijuana, The Politics of Alt Rock, and How She Went From Conservative to Libertarian, Tim Cavanaugh & Zach Weissmueller, October 25, 2011
• Heaven for Medical Marijuana Patients Is Hell for the DOJ, Jacob Sullum, October 24, 2011
• Reason.tv: Guatemalan Drug Gangs & Me - The Human Cost of Prohibition, Alex Manning & Paul Feine, October 24, 2011
• Cartel Involvement in Failed Iranian Assassination Plot Fuels Push for Terrorist Designation, Mike Riggs, October 21, 2011
• Dazed and Confused No More, Steve Chapman, October 20, 2011
• Pediatrician Group Seeks to Boost ADHD Diagnoses, Jacob Sullum, October 18, 2011
• New Gallup Survey: A Majority of Americans Favor Legalizing Marijuana Use, Emily Ekins, October 18, 2011
• Kelsey Grammer's Libertarianism; Scott Dilbert's Federalism, Matt Welch, October 18, 2011
• California's Largest Medical Association Says Marijuana Prohibition Is Bad Public Health Policy, Mike Riggs, October 16, 2011
• You Can't Say That on TV: U.S. Attorney Promises to Target Medical Marijuana Advertising, Peter Suderman, October 12, 2011
• Read My Tea Leaves, Jacob Sullum, October 12, 2011
• Amending the 10th Amendment, Jacob Sullum, November 2011
• Cannabis Candy Leaves Sour Taste in Drug Warriors' Mouths, Jacob Sullum, October 10, 2011
• U.N. Prohibitionists Document Prohibition-Related Violence, Jacob Sullum, October 10, 2011
• Can Prohibitionists Admire Steve Jobs?, Jacob Sullum, October 10, 2011
• California's U.S. Attorneys Think It's Impossible to Make Money While Helping Patients, Jacob Sullum, October 7, 2011
• Pill Pushers, A. Barton Hinkle, October 7, 2011
• Gary Johnson on the DOJ's Medical Marijuana Crackdown: "Maybe it's time for the feds to just admit that their law is just wrong", Mike Riggs, October 7, 2011
• Remember When Obama Said He Would Stop the DEA's Raids on Oregon's Medical Marijuana Growers? Neither Does He., Jacob Sullum, October 7, 2011
• DOJ Launches 'Coordinated Crackdown' on Medical Marijuana, Jacob Sullum, October 6, 2011
• The Fine Line Between Tolerating and Authorizing Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, Jacob Sullum, October 6, 2011
• How Could Alcohol Prohibition Possibly Be Relevant Today?, Jacob Sullum, October 3, 2011
• Ken Burns: Prohibition, Drug Laws, & Unintended Consequences, Nick Gillespie & Meredith Bragg, October 2, 2011
• What Boardwalk Empire & Ken Burns' New Prohibition Doc Mean for the War on Drugs, Nick Gillespie & Meredith Bragg, October 1, 2011
• Reason Writers Around Town: Jacob Sullum on the NYPD's New Pot Policy in the New York Daily News, September 29, 2011
• Reason.tv: Prohibition Vogue-Why We're Still Talking About "The Noble Experiment", Nick Gillespie & Meredith Bragg, September 29, 2011
• NYC Police Commissioner Tells Cops to Stop Arresting Pot Smokers for Following Instructions, Jacob Sullum, September 23, 2011
• You Call That a Mandatory Minimum?, Jacob Sullum, September 23, 2011
• If Traffic Deaths Were Rising, Would the Los Angeles Times Be Less Alarmed?, Jacob Sullum, September 21, 2011
• RAND Study: Closing Pot Dispensaries Leads to Increase in Crime, Tim Cavanaugh, September 21, 2011
• Nikki Haley Pledges Not to Let Reality Get in the Way of Drug Testing, Nick Gillespie, September 20, 2011
• Even If the DEA Leaves Medical Marijuana Suppliers Alone, the IRS Won't, Jacob Sullum, September 19, 2011
• In 2010, One Person Was Arrested for Manufacturing or Possessing Drugs Every 19 Seconds, Mike Riggs, September 19, 2011
• Unbanned in Phoenix, Jacob Sullum, October 2011
• Six Months for Letting Grandma Do His Laundry, Jacob Sullum, September 16, 2011
• Did Cannabis Cafés Make the Netherlands Go to Pot?, Jacob Sullum, September 16, 2011