How Charlie Rangel Changed His Mind About the War on Drugs
The former congressman, who died this week, transformed from a zealous prohibitionist into a drug policy reformer.
The former congressman, who died this week, transformed from a zealous prohibitionist into a drug policy reformer.
Six years after legalizing hemp and its by-products, the state is revising its drug policies and criminalizing products sold by thousands of Texas businesses.
That logic implausibly assumes presidents have the power to curtail substance abuse by attacking the drug supply.
President Donald Trump's executive order empowering local cops will create bad incentives that could prove costly for law-abiding citizens.
Nominees include stories on inflation breaking brains, America's first drug war, Afghans the U.S. left behind, Javier Milei, and much more.
Plus: A listener asks which domestic policy changes could realistically boost U.S. manufacturing without raising costs for consumers.
Some hospitals are even reporting women for testing positive for drugs that were given to them during labor.
The survey estimates that 7.5 percent of America adults use illegally produced fentanyl each year, 25 times the rate indicated by a government-sponsored survey.
Trump admits he could return migrant illegally deported to El Salvador. And an intelligence community report concludes the Tren de Aragua drug gang isn't controlled by the Venezuelan government.
A new study being used to call for mifepristone restrictions relies on vague and dubious definitions of drug-related complications.
Even when they are less patently ridiculous, the metrics of success favored by government officials make little sense.
Bondi said the president's drug policy prevented the deaths of 75 percent of Americans, in just his first 100 days.
The president's bizarre insistence that Kilmar Abrego Garcia "had MS-13 tattooed" on "his knuckles" makes him seem like a confused old man.
"All these government programs that regulate and control, they institutionalize mediocrity at best," argues Yaron Brook, head of the Ayn Rand Institute.
The court ruled that Trump invoked the AEA illegally, blocks deportation of Venezuelan migrants who filed the case, and sets out standards for notifying them of their rights to challenge their deportation.
"I blew a zero, so now you're trying to think I smoked weed?” Tayvin Galanakis asked the officer who arrested him in 2022. “That's what's going on. You can't do that, man.”
Using the military to wage the drug war in Mexico raises practical and constitutional issues.
A Mississippi mom was charged with a felony years after she gave birth for drug use early in her pregnancy.
The state legalized medical marijuana but banned dispensary owners from advertising. Now, one owner is taking the fight to the Supreme Court.
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The 2-1 ruling is procedural, but strongly suggests the majority judges also reject the Trump administration's position on the merits.
Authors James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber discuss their new book Microdosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance.
The researchers found that drug seizures in San Francisco were associated with a substantial increase in fatal opioid overdoses.
The people deported are incarcerated in Salvadoran prisons without any due process whatsoever.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Jill Parrish emphasizes that religious freedom must protect "unpopular or unfamiliar religious groups" as well as "popular or familiar ones."
If courts allow Trump to get away with using the Act in peacetime, it would set a dangerous precedent.
His apparent plan to do so is illegal and would set a dangerous precedent if allowed to stand.
How pot bureaucrats used legal weed to push their social justice agenda
The Supreme Court will decide whether this threat to the Second Amendment is legally viable.
If tariffs are a poor method of collecting revenue or strengthening trade, they're even less effective at stopping the flow of illegal drugs.
President Donald Trump's pardon of the Silk Road creator is a rare moment of reprieve in an era of relentless government expansion.
Remember the bee apocalypse? The U.S. reversed that trend. What other trends can we reverse?
As part of a broader policy shift, the government plans to "start from scratch" regarding the permits.
Fogel's story closely mirrored that of Brittney Griner's. But he did not receive the same urgency from the Biden administration, even though he was arrested six months prior.
The agency's low points, from working with child sex abusers to enabling drug trafficking
The bill would permanently schedule fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I drugs—and impede therapeutic research.
Many people depicted in a supposedly "groundbreaking" book on psychedelics and religion are now speaking out against it.
Researchers gave psilocybin to two dozen religious clergy. Was it guided by science, religion, or some awkward combination?
After promising to stop the flow of drugs during his first term, the president blames foreign officials for his failure.
The president can cite meaningless "adequate steps," ambiguous drug seizure numbers, and a decline in drug deaths that began before he took office.
Pam Bondi cracked down on "pill mills" in Florida. The result was increased consumption of black-market alternatives.
Recent Supreme Court precedent suggests such challenges might prevail, though success is not guaranteed.
Drug warriors deserve blame rather than credit for their role in recent overdose trends.
Local news reports detail how Polk County, Minnesota, charges drivers and petty offenders with drug-free zone violations like no other county in the state.
But at least he restored respect for a tariff-loving predecessor by renaming a mountain.
Two new meta-analyses make a case for individualistic approaches to puberty blockers and hormone treatments, driven by patients, parents, and doctors rather than the state.
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