The Liberty Justice Center is urging the Supreme Court to uphold a 5th Circuit decision rejecting the claim that cannabis consumers have no Second Amendment rights.
The president's son also claims destroying cocaine boats somehow reduces fentanyl overdoses, echoing his father's confusion.
They are joining the Trump administration in urging the Supreme Court to uphold a federal law that disarms "unlawful" drug consumers.
That embarrassing mistake highlights the slipperiness of Trump's attempts to justify legally dubious policies by invoking the specter of "foreign terrorist organizations."
Even as the president blows up drug boats, the government routinely declines to pursue charges against smugglers nabbed by the Coast Guard.
The Trump administration's chest-pounding approach is costing lives and eroding freedoms.
In addition to its symbolic significance, rescheduling the drug will facilitate research and provide tax relief to state-licensed cannabis suppliers.
The executive order does not accomplish much in practical terms, but it jibes with the president's conflation of drug trafficking with violent aggression.
The long-awaited move will facilitate medical research and provide tax relief to the cannabis industry, but it falls far short of legalization.
The defense secretary claims the video, which shows a second strike that killed two floundering survivors, would compromise "sources and methods."
The main practical benefits would be tax relief for the cannabis industry and fewer barriers to medical research.
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The Justice Department's litigation positions are at odds with its avowed intent to protect Second Amendment rights.
Calling suspected cocaine smugglers "combatants" does not justify summarily executing them.
So far, by the president's reckoning, he has prevented 650,000 U.S. drug deaths—eight times the number recorded last year.
The footage shows what happened to the survivors of the September 2 attack that inaugurated the president's deadly campaign against suspected drug boats.
The commander who ordered a second missile strike worried that the helpless men he killed might be able to salvage cocaine from the smoldering wreck.
Adm. Frank M. Murphy reportedly told lawmakers a controversial second strike was necessary because drugs on the burning vessel remained a threat.
Paul says Hegseth misled Congress about deadly strikes on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean.
Regardless of what the defense secretary knew or said about the September 2 boat attack, the forces he commands are routinely committing murder in the guise of self-defense.
Instead of asking whether a particular boat attack went too far, Congress should ask how the summary execution of criminal suspects became the new normal.
Even if you accept the president's assertion of an "armed conflict" with drug smugglers, blowing apart survivors of a boat strike would be a war crime.
A spending bill approved as part of the package that ended the federal shutdown aims to close a loophole that gave birth to $28 billion industry.
The president's authoritarian response to a video posted by six members of Congress, who he says "should be arrested and put on trial," validates their concerns.
Congress justified that National Firearms Act of 1934 as a revenue measure—a rationale undermined by the repeal of taxes on suppressors and short-barreled rifles.
The appropriations bill, which the House is considering, would wipe out an industry that offers alternatives to cannabis consumers in states that still prohibit recreational marijuana use.
The most common uses of "magic mushrooms" will never gain FDA approval.
President Trump’s pretextual claim that fentanyl carrying drug boats in the Caribbean are an existential threat to Americans doesn’t pass muster.
The government is tying itself in knots to cast murder as self-defense and avoid legal limits on the president's use of the military.
There are several problems with the president's math, which suggests he has accomplished an impossible feat.
His administration is urging the Supreme Court to uphold a prosecution for violating a federal law that bars illegal drug users from owning firearms.
The Drug Policy Institute's Kevin Sabet debates Reason's Zach Weissmueller.
The potential for deadly error underlines the lawlessness of the president’s bloodthirsty anti-drug strategy.
The Singaporean government hanged Pannir Selvam this month, the 10th convict to be executed in 2025 for nonviolent narcotics violations.
The law applies to millions of Americans who pose no plausible threat to public safety, including cannabis consumers in states that have legalized marijuana.
Until now, the president concedes, interdiction has been "totally ineffective." Blowing up drug boats won't change that reality.
The president thinks he can transform murder into self-defense by executive fiat.
The lesson isn’t that decriminalization can’t work. It’s that Portland-style governance is broken.
Flawed research methods are misleading patients and might embolden prohibitionists. Marijuana has promise in treating certain sorts of discomfort, but some conditions still require powerful narcotics.
Author Joe Dolce explains how psychedelics are moving from counterculture to mainstream, with new science, shifting laws, and surprising therapies that promise to change how we treat addiction, anxiety, and self-discovery.
The president's new approach to drug law enforcement represents a stark departure from military norms and criminal justice principles.
Equating drug trafficking with armed aggression, the president asserts the authority to kill anyone he perceives as a threat to "our most vital national interests."
The agency's puzzling concerns about the Lykos Therapeutics drug application
The war on drugs authorizes police conduct that otherwise would be readily recognized as criminal.
The appeals court rejected most of the arguments in favor of that policy, saying "the government must show non-intoxicated marijuana users pose a risk of future danger."
The appeals court concluded that the government had failed to show that policy is consistent with "this Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation."
Canada accounts for a tiny percentage of fentanyl smuggling, which cannot be stopped by trying harder.
The contrast between the two cases illustrates the haphazard impact of an arbitrary, constitutionally dubious gun law.
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