Drug Legalization

Culture

In Sports, Doping Should Be Legal

It's no different than any other technique for maximizing performance

Reason Staff | 8.6.2012 10:26 PM

Politics

Pro-Obama Super-PAC Donor Morgan Freeman: Banning Pot "Stupidest Law Possible"!

Nick Gillespie | 7.26.2012 10:14 AM

Politics

Truth in Trials Act (H.R. 6134) to Protect Medical Marijuana Patients: Reps Barney Frank and Ron Paul are Supporters

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.18.2012 10:04 PM

Politics

Police Stand on Volunteer's Neck, Destroy Surveillance Cameras During Dispensary Raid

Melanie Kruvelis | 7.5.2012 2:55 PM

Politics

If Obama Really Believes Drug Addiction Is a Disease, Not a Moral Failing, Why Is He Putting Sick People In Prison?

Mike Riggs | 7.2.2012 12:50 PM

Policy

Fighting Against Richard Nixon's Drug War Now a Part of Uruguay's Foreign Policy as Government Moves Towards Being Monopoly Supplier of Marijuana Domestically

Ed Krayewski | 6.21.2012 5:11 PM

Policy

Pot Dispensary Owner Faces Life Sentence for Being Too Profitable

Zach Weissmueller | 6.18.2012 8:06 PM

Politics

Mexican Congressional Candidate Wants to End Drug War. Also, She Poses Topless.

Scott Shackford | 5.22.2012 5:59 PM

Policy

Moms Say, "No More Drug War!"

Zach Weissmueller | 5.13.2012 8:00 AM

Policy

Moms Say, "No More Drug War!"

Zach Weissmueller | 5.13.2012 8:00 AM

Politics

Former Polish President "Evolves" on Drug Policy, Doesn't Apologize For His Awful Drug Law

Ed Krayewski | 5.11.2012 2:46 PM

Policy

Creating a Risk-Free World

Let's start treating people as though their bodies belong to them, not to a controlling and "protective" government.

John Stossel | 5.10.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Brian Doherty: Why Young People Love Ron Paul

Sharif Matar | 5.9.2012 3:10 PM

Politics

Connecticut Legislature Approves Medical Marijuana; Governor Expected to Sign

Scott Shackford | 5.6.2012 12:43 PM

Policy

Former Drug Czar John Walters: Dumber Than You May Think

Jacob Sullum | 5.3.2012 5:08 PM

Policy

Nancy Pelosi Defends Medical Marijuana Dispensaries In Face of Obama Administration Crackdown

Mike Riggs | 5.3.2012 12:56 PM

Politics

The Real Breaking Bad: How the Drug War Creates Collateral Damage

Paul Detrick | 5.3.2012 12:11 PM

Policy

Dianne Feinstein: 'Just Say No' Is the Solution to Prohibition-Related Violence

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2012 6:16 PM

Politics

Why Is the Center for American Progress Enabling Obama's Drug War Lies?

Mike Riggs | 4.30.2012 3:59 PM

Policy

Lynching Charlie Lynch, a Medical Marijuana Martyr: Q&A with Documentarian Rick Ray

Reason Staff | 4.20.2012 1:10 PM

Politics

The 5 Dumbest Things the Obama Administration Has Said About Mexico's Drug War

How the Obama administration talks to its neighbors about drugs.

Mike Riggs | 4.18.2012 4:30 PM

Policy

Why Medical Marijuana Providers Are Opposing Legalization Efforts in Washington and Colorado

Mike Riggs | 4.16.2012 11:47 AM

Politics

More From George Will on the Costs of Drug Prohibition

Jacob Sullum | 4.12.2012 3:35 PM

Politics

You Are Now (Almost) Free to Discuss Ending the War on Drugs

Latin American leaders talk drug legalization. Will Obama join in?

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.11.2012 6:00 PM

Policy

San Francisco Bay Guardian Columnist Sad Oaksterdam Raid Turning People Off of Big Government

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.9.2012 7:44 PM

Politics

America's Bipartisan Reefer Madness

Both Democrats and Republicans support the pointless federal crackdown on medical marijuana

Steven Greenhut | 4.6.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

George Will: Drug Prohibition Is an Awful Flop. We Like It.

Jacob Sullum | 4.5.2012 4:21 PM

Politics

The 3 Worst Arguments for Legalizing Marijuana

Hey kids, don't make these rookie mistakes!

Mike Riggs | 3.23.2012 10:00 AM

Policy

Marijuana's Disappearing Stigma

Jacob Sullum | 3.16.2012 2:46 PM

Policy

Bill Bennett Takes Drug Policy Advice From Bruce Springsteen

Jacob Sullum | 3.15.2012 2:04 PM

Policy

California Pot Legalization Initiatives in Disarray

Brian Doherty | 3.12.2012 1:23 PM

Policy

The Christian Science Monitor Continues Its Crusade Against Marijuana

Mike Riggs | 3.7.2012 2:10 PM

Policy

Biden Opens His Government Aperture and Says Something Puzzling About Drug Legalization

Jacob Sullum | 3.6.2012 3:21 PM

Politics

Pot Legalization Initiative Qualifies for Colorado Ballot

Jacob Sullum | 2.27.2012 4:15 PM

Politics

Drug Trafficking Drug Warrior Could Get 20 Years

Nick Sibilla | 2.24.2012 1:25 PM

Policy

Who's Afraid of Balls on the Beach, Gay Marriage, & Drug Legalization?

Nick Gillespie, Matt Welch, and Jim Epstein | 2.24.2012 10:55 AM

Policy

Prohibitionist County Commissioner Arrested for Drug Trafficking

Nick Sibilla | 2.23.2012 11:25 AM

Politics

Kennedy on Whitney Houston, Adele, &…Michelle Obama?

Nick Gillespie | 2.17.2012 3:00 PM

Policy

David Cameron's Drug-Induced Idiocy

Jacob Sullum | 2.17.2012 1:58 PM

Policy

The Missing Parts of the Drug Czar's Whitney Houston "teachable moment"

Brian Doherty | 2.15.2012 2:09 PM

Politics

Veterans for Weed Threatened by That Other VFW

Nick Sibilla | 2.2.2012 4:44 PM

Politics

A New Pot Legalization Proposal in California Gets Good Poll Numbers

Brian Doherty | 2.1.2012 3:45 PM

Policy

O Cannabis

Nick Sibilla | 1.18.2012 11:04 AM

Politics

Rick Santorum Worries About the Drug War's Racial Impact

Jacob Sullum | 1.17.2012 1:21 PM

Policy

Ken Burns on Prohibition, Pot, and PBS

Q&A with America's top documentarian

Nick Gillespie | 12.22.2011 10:30 AM

Policy

Space Mogul Richard Branson Defends Our Rights to Explore Outer Space and Inner Space

Brian Doherty | 12.20.2011 2:05 PM

Policy

Modern-Day Prohibition

The eternal temptation to ban things that give people pleasure

Jeff Stier | 12.20.2011 7:00 AM

Policy

Criminal Justice Reform Is on the Docket In Florida

Conservative groups and businesses are pushing for better drug laws in the Sunshine State.

Mike Riggs | 12.14.2011 6:00 PM