RIP Arnold Trebach, Who Helped Make Opposition to the Drug War Respectable
The American University professor called for "drug peace" at a time when both major parties were committed to ever-escalating violence.
The American University professor called for "drug peace" at a time when both major parties were committed to ever-escalating violence.
Massachusetts is the only state that has closed recreational outlets while allowing medical sales to continue.
Benjamin Netanyahu is appointing a committee that will look into following Canada's example.
A new generation of marijuana prohibitionists is reviving old talking points with vaping products substituting for joints.
The former New York City mayor, who thinks legalizing pot is "one of the stupidest things we've ever done," nevertheless says "putting people in jail for marijuana" is "really dumb."
A lesson for other governments making legalization plans
A ballot measure would create a regulatory framework for recreational sales.
The vast majority of patients with vaping-related lung injuries who used cannabis products said they got them from "informal sources."
While the issue is far from settled, a decline in Canadian beer sales and a drop in binge drinking among college students reinforce the case for a substitution effect.
In one week alone, newly legal dispensaries made $11 million in sales.
The Illinois State Police confirms that people who try newly legal marijuana are not considered "unlawful users" of narcotics.
Marijuana merchants, restaurants, and "mobile premises" can let customers partake if they get state and local approval.
Creating a sensible legal market would drive black market vape makers out of business.
Which state do you think will be more successful at moving cannabis consumers to the legal market?
The main danger to vapers is illicit cannabis extracts of unknown provenance and composition.
The state's Cannabis Advisory Committee blames high taxes, local bans, and onerous regulations.
Tessa Majors may have been on way to buy illegal pot when she was stabbed to death. But if that's true, it's an argument against prohibition, not for it.
The drug wars will continue until the state gets its cut of the money.
When the government tries to hoover up all the money earned from legalized drugs, this is what happens.
The correlation between cannabis consumption and use of other drugs is clear, but its meaning remains controversial and probably always will.
The Golden State is still taking punitive, costly, and pointless measures to fight illegal grow operations.
West Hollywood's Lowell Farms Cafe serves food, drinks, and marijuana.
While the Controlled Substances Act generally gives the attorney general the authority to deschedule drugs, it also invokes treaty obligations that seem to preclude doing that with cannabis.
The senator's marijuana legalization plan is heavy on taxes, regulation, and executive power.
Reason's Jacob Sullum and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson debate eliminating laws that prohibit the use and sale of narcotics.
California is turning to tech solution to clear bureaucratic hurdles.
A comparison with other states finds "no statistically significant long-term effects" on violent or property crime rates.
Senate hearing shows, once again, why marijuana needs to be decriminalized at the federal level.
The MORE Act combines laudably broad legalization and expungement provisions with taxes and spending that may alienate potential Republican allies.
The widely quoted and consulted academic died yesterday at the age of 68.
Should federal marijuana reform be tied to a broader "racial justice" agenda?
Survey data contradict fears that underage cannabis consumption would rise after states allowed recreational use by adults.
Colorado's former governor came around on the issue when he realized that legalization was not the disaster he had anticipated.
Participants in Illinois' new recreational market will have to contend with a lot of taxes and regulations.
A solid majority of congressmen, including 41 Republicans, voted for a spending rider that bars the Justice Department from interfering with the legalization of cannabis for medical or recreational use.
"After all our service members have sacrificed, how can we penalize them for working in their state's legal economy?"
The answer may depend on how you measure patients' legal access to cannabis.
The Seattle festival's organizers argue that banning signs referring to state-licensed cannabusinesses violates the state and federal constitutions.
The Oakland City Council unanimously approved a city ordinance decriminalizing "entheogenic plants."
One legislator tried to stop them by reenacting an infamously dumb anti-drug ad. It didn't work.
The researchers found no statistically significant relationship between testing positive for THC and contributing to accidents.
New York legislators also are taking another shot at legalization.
Decriminalize Denver campaign director Kevin Matthews speaks about his winning strategy and the new frontier of drug policy.
According to the survey, three-fifth of voters think pot should be legal for recreational use.
Anti-prohibitionists are now trying to help those still impacted by old drug convictions.
Marijuana legalization changes the constitutional status of canine olfactory inspections.
The tourist mecca will be one of the few U.S. jurisdictions that give visitors a place where they can legally use the marijuana they can legally buy.