It looks like it was intended to cover unwanted sexual images sent to a particular person, but its text seems broad enough to potentially cover even posting things on your own site.
The fine print of the latest alcohol regulation proposal in Massachusetts is revealing.
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Research on the effects of Oregon's loosening of its self-service gas ban finds that allowing adults to pump their own gas increases supply and lowers prices.
The overall prevalence of cannabis consumption among adolescents rose between 2017 and 2019 but has fallen since then.
Reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown makes the case for legalizing sex work. Author Julie Bindel wants customers to be held criminally liable.
Reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown makes the case for legalizing sex work. Author Julie Bindel wants customers to be held criminally liable.
"The knot in getting that product into the U.S. isn't safety, it's a regulatory issue," says Peter Pitts.
A federal judge ruled Monday that North Carolina bureaucrats violated the Constitution when they tried to ban a Flying Dog beer over a possible penis on the label.
Food companies don't determine what parents put in their shopping carts.
The justice overlooks the long American tradition of pharmacological freedom and the dubious constitutional basis for federal bans.
Banning less harmful tobacco alternatives is not a way to improve public health.
Plus: perpetual "scope creep" of the welfare state
In a move that is likely to undermine public health, the agency warns that products containing synthetic nicotine "will be subject to FDA enforcement."
"Government restrictions came in, which literally shut us down," says Paul Smith, who co-owns Red Stag Tattoo in Austin, Texas.
The proposed rule, which targets the cigarettes that black smokers overwhelmingly prefer, will harm the community it is supposed to help.
"I am not okay with you making laws that prevent me from doing what I feel is good for me."
Menthols aren’t harder to quit than other cigarettes.
"It's a lot to try and put this stuff all together all on my own, using my own savings, and then having to start all over," says Venus Vegan Tattoo owner Selena Carrion.
"I am not okay with you making laws that prevent me from doing what I feel is good for me."
In Georgia, the difference between delta-8 and delta-9 THC is the difference between legal and illegal, but police are threatening store owners over both.
The history of wine delivery is pretty clear.
Killing barroom social networks kills innovation.
The agency's obsession with adolescent vaping is driving decisions that undermine public health.
Sex, money, and the future of online free speech
One bill would repeal a range of laws against sex work, while the other would change them from criminal to civil offenses.
Regulators have long targeted tobacco products, but there's new energy behind outright bans on vapes and cigarettes.
Curfews and alcohol rollbacks meant to mitigate danger actually hurt local businesses.
Even if the senators are genuinely confused, that underlines the recklessness of their attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Belgium is the first country in Europe to decriminalize selling and paying for sex.
The senator argues that questioning sex offender policies "endangers our children."
As expected, Tuesday's hearing was primarily made up of political theater.
The Supreme Court nominee raised serious constitutional concerns about laws that punish sex offenders after they complete their sentences.
The Missouri senator's attack on the Supreme Court nominee elides crucial distinctions and ignores widespread judicial criticism of child pornography sentences.
It’s likely to happen any day now.
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The agency ignores downward trends in both kinds of nicotine use and obscures the huge difference in the hazards they pose.
Legislators in New Jersey and Oregon keep failing to repeal their states' bans on self-service gas stations. Is Massachusetts' small town direct democracy the solution?
The SAFE SEX Workers Study Act would look at the impact of FOSTA and the seizure of sites like Backpage and Rentboy.
A spending bill provision would redefine "tobacco products" to include products that have nothing to do with tobacco.
A new bill would alter state law to remove an educational exception for disseminating works the community deems "harmful" to minors.
Despite having a near-monopoly on districtwide betting, poor decisions and mismanagement led to millions in losses on GambetDC.
Only 1.2 percent of U.S. vodka imports come from Russia.
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