Prescription: Drugs
When California and Arizona overwhelmingly passed initiatives allowing the medical use of marijuana, drug warriors were apoplectic. What do these measures mean?
Health
No Relief in Sight
Torture, despair, agony, and death are the symptoms of "opiophobia," a well-documented medical syndrome fed by fear, superstition, and the war on drugs. Doctors suffer the syndrome. Patients suffer the consequences.
Drugs: Club Medicine
Support for medical marijuana is growing, but many patients are not waiting for a change in policy.
Alcohol: Getting Wetter?
There are signs of a healthy shift away from hostility toward alcohol in the United States.
What the Doctor Orders
By treating risky behavior like a communicable disease, the public health establishment invites government to meddle in our private lives.
On Campus: Purging Bingeing
Students will always drink, but colleges can try to control the consequences.
A Confederacy of Boobs
How special interests, assorted ideologues, and a sensationalist press torpedoed breast implants-and now threaten other medical devices
Prescription Remedies
A broad coalition of deregulators is gearing up to reform the FDA. How far will they go?
What Causes AIDS?: The Debate Continues
Responses to our June cover story, and a rebuttal by Charles A. Thomas Jr., Kary B. Mullis, and Phillip E. Johnson
Drug Legalization and the News Media
The Eighth International Conference on Drug Policy Reform, Washington, D.C. (1994)
Mind Alteration: An Interview with Ethan Nadelmann
Drug-policy scholar Ethan Nadelmann on turning people against drug prohibition
What Causes AIDS?
Scientists have serious doubts about the official theory linking HIV and AIDS.
A Free Market in Drugs
Seventh International Conference on Drug Policy Reform, Washington, D.C.
Inside Ronald Reagan
A REASON Interview: "I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."
