Poll Commissioned by Pot Prohibitionists Shows How Unpopular Pot Prohibition Is
A survey by an anti-marijuana group finds that only 16 percent of Americans support the current federal policy.
A survey by an anti-marijuana group finds that only 16 percent of Americans support the current federal policy.
Eight out of 13 have indicated that Jeff Session's marijuana memo won't affect their prosecutorial decisions.
Today the governor signed a bill that eliminates penalties for possession and home cultivation.
Will faulty, incomplete statistics be used to justify a crackdown?
The state will pay damages and legal fees for violating the First Amendment rights of ISU activists.
The governor has indicated he will sign a bill approved today.
That includes the president, who said marijuana legalization "should be up to the states."
Will bipartisan criticism of Jeff Sessions' marijuana memo inspire legislative action?
Pot prohibition gives vast discretion to U.S. attorneys, who have never prosecuted more than a tiny percentage of offenders.
The attorney general's memo gives U.S. attorneys the discretion they always had to target state-legal marijuana suppliers.
Sources say he's rescinding a memo that restricted Justice Department's role under Obama administration.
Alaska has the lowest taxes on recreational marijuana.
States with legal pot should not define DUI based on a "mythical link" between THC blood levels and impairment.
Recreational pot use becomes legal in the Golden State in 2018. The feds don't care.
Despite his fear and loathing of cannabis, Jeff Sessions has good reasons to tolerate legalization.
Past-month cannabis consumption by teenagers fell significantly last year and is lower than it was before legalization.
A proposal would allow the social consumption of cannabis.
Recreational marijuana arrives with a million strings attached.
New Jersey's governor says states have a right to legalize sports betting but not marijuana.
The attorney general, who conceded that good people do smoke marijuana, gave no indication of an impending crackdown.
In the 1970s, New York City and Hong Kong figured out how to help heroin users without red tape or an abundance of experts.
Virginia's incoming governor supports decriminalization.
Paul LePage says Maine shouldn't implement a legalization initiative until it's clear how the feds will respond.
"Marijuana-related" crashes are not necessarily related to marijuana.
According to the latest survey, 64 percent of all American adults and 51 percent of Republicans think pot should be legal.
Tomorrow New Hampshire becomes the 22nd state to eliminate that possibility.
The governor, who worries that pot-friendly businesses could provoke a federal crackdown, disagrees.
Past-month cannabis consumption by 12-to-17-year-olds is down by more than 20 percent since 2002.
It has not been the disaster portrayed by the prohibitionists whose numbers the attorney general likes to cite.
Maybe reparations from the federal government are in order.
By asking states to regulate marijuana better, the attorney general concedes that prohibition is gone for good.
It's more unwinnable than ever before.
Millions of pot-seeking tourists have nowhere to enjoy their purchases.
Why the attorney general might be reluctant to target state-licensed marijuana merchants
A DOJ panel's recommendations reportedly do not include any significant changes in marijuana enforcement.
Could the contrast have something to do with his boss's policy preferences?
A Colorado appeals court concludes that a canine sniff-over is a search and by itself cannot supply probable cause.
A half century after the psychedelic movement came to a screeching halt, MDMA scientists are making the most of a second chance.
Fear of fun can be found on both sides of the legalization debate.
Kennedy ("I think the problem is that heroin is illegal") and Kat Timpf say bluntly what Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson couldn't quite bring himself to advocate last year
But the appeals court rejected claims against state and local officials who regulate marijuana businesses.
The verdict is a rebuke to an attorney general who helped doom plans for a marijuana resort on an Indian reservation.
LSD, mushrooms, and ecstasy are finally getting attention from serious medical researchers. And their findings are astounding.
Reason sat down with experts and advocates to discuss the state legalization, science, and the marijuana industry.
New Jersey's governor also worries that the government might eventually "let everybody choose."
The network misreads federal data, conflating positive drug tests with impairment.
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