Relief for Victims of Pot Prohibition
Cory Booker's Marijuana Justice Act highlights the moral imperative of automatic expungement.
Cory Booker's Marijuana Justice Act highlights the moral imperative of automatic expungement.
Democrats approached the issue carefully in 2016. Now six presidential candidates are all-in for complete reform.
Easing pot prohibition is doing what the failed war on drugs never could.
The presidential contender is a johnny-come-lately on legalization, but she is right about the importance of fun.
The new federal burdens would make it even harder for the cannabis industry to displace the black market.
The New Jersey senator is a friend of criminal justice reform, but his best friend might steal the spotlight.
The reduction will not be enough to displace the black market.
NORML's 2019 scorecard shows that governors, including half a dozen who are pushing for legalization in their states, are beginning to reflect public opinion.
William Barr does not like legalization but says Congress has to resolve the "untenable" conflict between state and federal law.
The link that Alex Berenson perceives between cannabis and violence is not apparent in careful research on the issue.
Adults should have the right to make their own decisions about what to put in their own bodies.
The relationship between cannabis consumption and psychiatric diagnoses is more subtle and ambiguous than the anti-pot polemicist implies.
The market's performance is falling far short of predictions.
The government is the villain of this story, not wealthy industrialists.
On marijuana, New York's governor has lagged far behind his party's rank-and-file and the general public.
Rahm Emanuel wants pot legalization and a casino so the city can grab more taxes for its pension debts.
Legalized pot is great. Taxing it to pay for public transit is not.
Jacob Sullum, Dana Rohrabacher, and Adrian Moore talk about the next steps in ending the war on drugs at Reason's 50th anniversary celebration.
A favorite prohibitionist theme is refuted by reality.
"For every dollar gained in tax revenue," the Centennial Institute claims, "Coloradans spent approximately $4.50 to mitigate the effects of legalization."
Legislators in Trenton plan to address past pot convictions while preventing future ones.
The Detroit Free Press columnist seems oblivious to black-market competition.
Two-thirds of the states have now legalized marijuana for medical or recreational use.
It is the first state in the Midwest to allow nonmedical use.
The initiative lost by a big margin in a state that approved medical use two years ago.
A Colorado jury rejected claims that an indoor cultivation facility had injured the owners of a neighboring horse ranch.
The court says the government may not prosecute people for possession, use, or home cultivation of marijuana.
Ballot initiatives in Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, and Utah will give voters a chance to loosen their cannabis laws.
Our northern neighbors are handling the transition from prohibition to regulation better than the U.S. in several ways.
If they've lost Christie, prohibitionists have lost the GOP.
...with a little help from "Distracted Boyfriend" guy.
The plan does not go as far as it should, but it's still better than the policies of most U.S. states with legal pot.
There is no national ban, taxes are modest, the purchase age is lower, and delivery is allowed throughout the country.
The Office of National Drug Policy is not allowed to be evenhanded.
The FDA approved Epidiolex in June, and today the DEA made it a Schedule V drug, the least restrictive classification for controlled substances.
New FBI statistics for 2017 even show a small increase.
New York State as a whole seems to be moving toward legalization.
A White House policy committee is collecting information on "negative trends" and "threats" associated with legalization.
Regulatory uncertainty is scaring some companies away from CBD products and forcing others to operate in a legal grey area.
The figure refers to crashes in which a driver exceeded the threshold at which state law presumes impairment.
A new study shows that over $106 billion could be added to the government's budget if drugs are legalized.
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