Departments
2 Sovereignty Is Such a Lonely Word
Two decades of promiscuous intervention softened the ground for Putin's expansionism.Matt Welch
6 Contributors
7 Letters and Reaction
Should vaccines be mandatory?; five gun rights cases to watch…
8 Citings Why morphine matters; outsmarting the CIA; Bitcoin for pot; work less, make more; bringing the First Amendment into the 21st century…
52 Reason TV: Government vs. the Juggalos
Why are we criminalizing music fandom? Paul Detrick
Columns
14 Pot, Poker, and Prohibitionism Do Republicans want to be the party of unprincipled killjoys? Jacob Sullum
16 Free the Horse Masseuses! Occupational licensing must go. Veronique de Rugy
18 Welcome to the Naked Future
Celebrating the death of privacy. Ronald Bailey
70 The DIY Drug Prize
The federal government should offer prize money for the creation of a safer, better high. Greg Beato
Features
20 California's Unlikely Pot Crackdown Scenes from the federal clamp-down on medical marijuana in the Golden State after Proposition 19. Peter Hecht
28 Washington's Legal Marijuana Mess
Can pot regulators beat the law of supply and demand? Jacob Sullum
32 Marijuana Money in the Mattress
Banks remain leery of deposits from cannabusinesses.
Jacob Sullum
36 'You Can Never Drive'
Washington's new standard for drugged driving puts patients in peril. Jacob Sullum
42 How Not to Legalize a Drug
Yanking alcohol back out of the black market left America with a wicked Prohibition hangover. Garrett Peck
48 Eggheads of the World, Unite!
A frontline report on the ongoing battle to unionize college professors. Peter Bagge
Culture & Reviews
54 The Sultan of Sewers
William Burroughs' anti-authoritarian vision. Jesse WalkerCall Me Burroughs: A Life, by Barry Miles
Briefly Noted
56 Elizabeth Nolan Brown on Doug Fine's Hemp Bound
58 Ed Krayewski on the documentary Whitey
60 Zenon Evans on the documentary Elektro Moskva
62 Brian Doherty on Holly George-Warren's A Man Called Destruction
64 Jesse Walker on the blog Historia Discordia
61 Nader Goes Around the Bend Is the anti-corporate crusader so left he's almost right? Timothy P. Carney
Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State, by Ralph Nader
65 The Financial Crisis of 1837
Trying to understand one of America's great economic downturns. Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis, by Jessica M. Lepler
68 Why Aren't There More Unisex Bathrooms?
Blame building codes for long lines, unhappy transgender people, grumpy business owners, and more. Elizabeth Nolan Brown
72 Marijuana in Vending Machines Is the American Way Colorado will soon cut the middleman out of cannabis sales.Matthew Feeney
Cover Illustration: Peter Bagge
