Marijuana

• Drug Busts As Make-Work for Superfluous Cops, Jacob Sullum, May 25, 2012
• George Soros and Other Lefty Moneybags Types Aren't Primarying Lousy Old Democrats Because the Party Is More Ideologically Diverse! Wait, What?, Matt Welch, May 24, 2012
• Pro-Legalization Congressional Candidate Primarying a Democrat in El Paso, Matt Welch, May 23, 2012
• Support for Pot Legalization Crosses 50 Percent, With 56 Percent of Americans Now In Favor of Treating it Like Booze, Mike Riggs, May 22, 2012
• As 25 More Denver Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Shut Their Doors To Keep the Feds Away, There's Talk of the Need to "clean up the industry" and Help "the kids" by Banning Sign Spinners, or Banning Medical Pot Advertising Entirely, Lucy Steigerwald, May 9, 2012
• Teen Pot Smoking 'Surges' While Staying the Same, Jacob Sullum, May 2, 2012
• Judge Upholds Dutch Policy Banning Foreigners From Cannabis Cafés, Jacob Sullum, April 27, 2012
• The Best Answer to Crackdowns on Medical Marijuana? A Medical Marijuana Vending Machine., Lucy Steigerwald, April 24, 2012
• Connecticut Medical Marijuana Legalization Gets Closer, But Politicians Still Have Some Stupid, Cruel, and Anti-Market Objections, Lucy Steigerwald, April 20, 2012
• Former U.S. Prosecutor Who Took Down Marc Emery Calls for Legalization, But Doesn't Regret Prosecution of "Prince of Pot", Lucy Steigerwald, April 18, 2012
• Why Medical Marijuana Providers Are Opposing Legalization Efforts in Washington and Colorado, Mike Riggs, April 16, 2012
• More From George Will on the Costs of Drug Prohibition, Jacob Sullum, April 12, 2012
• Florida Drug Warriors Say They Had to Erase Possibly Incriminating Surveillance Video—for Their Own Protection, Jacob Sullum, April 11, 2012
• Spanish Village Votes "No" on Big Field of Revenue-Raising, Probably Illegal Marijuana, Lucy Steigerwald, April 10, 2012
• Katherine Mangu-Ward on the Medical Marijuana Business in The Wall Street Journal, April 9, 2012
• Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Puts Up Pro-Legalization Billboard, Lucy Steigerwald, April 6, 2012
• Matt Welch Talks Pot Raids, Gun Sales, and Stones Songs on Varney & Co., Matt Welch, April 6, 2012
• George Will: Drug Prohibition Is an Awful Flop. We Like It., Jacob Sullum, April 5, 2012
• What We Saw at the San Francisco Marijuana Rally, April 5, 2012
• Kennedy and Paul Feine to discuss the Oaksterdam raid on KFI 640, Paul Feine, April 2, 2012
• Capitol Hemp Shuts Down As Government-Selected Vendors Plan to Grow Pot in D.C., Jacob Sullum, April 2, 2012
• Study Finds a Third of Bronx Pot Busts Are Bogus, Jacob Sullum, March 30, 2012
• Washington State Reporter Wears Bulletproof Vest, Thinks SWAT Narcotics Raid is Totally Awesome, Lucy Steigerwald, March 30, 2012
• Why Was William Reddie So Agitated?, Jacob Sullum, March 30, 2012
• Some Canadian Health Experts Have Noticed The Drug War and "Tough on Crime" Things Not Working So Well, Lucy Steigerwald, March 28, 2012
• Marijuana Smuggler Who Served 30 Years in Prison Wants to Convince Florida Old Folks to Support Medical Marijuana, Lucy Steigerwald, March 16, 2012
• Marijuana's Disappearing Stigma, Jacob Sullum, March 16, 2012
• Bill Bennett Takes Drug Policy Advice From Bruce Springsteen, Jacob Sullum, March 15, 2012
• California Dispensary Fights City Extortion Scheme, Gets Raided By DEA Twice in Four Months, Zach Weissmueller, March 13, 2012
• California Pot Legalization Initiatives in Disarray, Brian Doherty, March 12, 2012
• Colorado Medical Marijuana Users Got the Full SWAT Treatment Because of Their Legal Plants, Lucy Steigerwald, February 28, 2012
• Pot Legalization Initiative Qualifies for Colorado Ballot, Jacob Sullum, February 27, 2012
• Drug Trafficking Drug Warrior Could Get 20 Years, Nick Sibilla, February 24, 2012
• Prohibitionist County Commissioner Arrested for Drug Trafficking, Nick Sibilla, February 23, 2012
• D.C.'s "Love Affair With Marijuana", Matt Welch, February 21, 2012
• Medical Marijuana Laws Send 'the Wrong Message': Don't Smoke Pot, Kids!, Jacob Sullum, February 9, 2012
• Another Example of How New York Cops Make Their Own Law, Jacob Sullum, February 8, 2012
• Veterans for Weed Threatened by That Other VFW, Nick Sibilla, February 2, 2012
• Bogus Pot Busts Continue Apace in New York City, Jacob Sullum, February 1, 2012
• A New Pot Legalization Proposal in California Gets Good Poll Numbers, Brian Doherty, February 1, 2012
• "The war on drugs is a war on people." Meet Law Enforcement Against Prohibition's New Anonymous Blogger, an Active-Duty Cop, Lucy Steigerwald, January 27, 2012
• O Cannabis, Nick Sibilla, January 18, 2012
• American Spectator Article is a Helpful Reminder That Prohibitionists Never Stop Making the Same Stupid Arguments, Lucy Steigerwald, January 17, 2012
• Romney Dodges Questions About the Marijuana, Jacob Sullum, January 10, 2012
• The Raw Milk Party vs. the Party of Pot and Veganism, Jacob Sullum, January 6, 2012
• Don't Come Sniffing Around Here Unless You Have a Warrant, Jacob Sullum, January 4, 2012
• Cops Total BMW While Looking for Nonexistent Marijuana, Jacob Sullum, January 2, 2012
• Sir, Your Perfectly Legal Plants Smell Like Marijuana, Jacob Sullum, December 27, 2011
• Weed Wars: Medical Marijuana Hits Reality TV, Meredith Bragg & Anthony L. Fisher, December 14, 2011
• Did Teen Pot Smoking Rise or Hold Steady This Year? Yes., Jacob Sullum, December 14, 2011
• Florida Drug Search Claims Flunk the Smell Test, Jacob Sullum, December 8, 2011
• After Illegally Busting Pot Smokers for More Than a Decade, the NYPD Starts Following the Law a Little More Often, Jacob Sullum, December 7, 2011
• DC Police Say Knowing Your Rights is an Indicator of Criminal Activity!, Nick Gillespie, December 1, 2011
• Dog Bites Man: What Sounds Like an Everyday Narcotics SWAT Raid, Lucy Steigerwald, November 30, 2011
• Subjects of Missouri Drug Raid That Went Viral Have Their Civil Suit Dismissed, Lucy Steigerwald, November 22, 2011
• Government Worker Fired for Signing Pro-Pot Legalization Petition, Brian Doherty, November 21, 2011
• CBS Poll: Yes to Medical Marijuana, But What We Have Now Isn't So Medicinal, Lucy Steigerwald, November 18, 2011
• Another Depressing Story of a Kid Narcing on His Parents, Lucy Steigerwald, November 17, 2011
• Study: Medical Marijuana Doesn't Make the Kids More Reefer-Mad in Rhode Island, Lucy Steigerwald, November 3, 2011
• Libertarian-leaning Comedian Runs for Mayor of Miami Beach, Seth McKelvey, October 31, 2011
• The Drug Czar Just Says No to Marijuana Legalization, Jacob Sullum, October 31, 2011
• A 14-Year-Old Pittsburgh Boy Didn't Die From Smoking Synthetic Marijuana, He Died From Smoking it Out of a Pez Dispenser, Lucy Steigerwald, October 28, 2011
• Occupy L.A.'s Civil War Over Weed, Matt Welch, 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
• New Gallup Survey: A Majority of Americans Favor Legalizing Marijuana Use, Emily Ekins, October 18, 2011
• A New High: 50 Percent of Americans Support Legalizing Marijuana, Lucy Steigerwald, October 17, 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