Drug Policy

Politics

Violent Crime Decreases After San Francisco Stopped Prosecuting Drug Users

Zach Weissmueller | 12.6.2014 6:00 PM

Politics

If You Want to End the Drug War Tomorrow, Support Reason Today!

Nick Gillespie | 12.3.2014 8:41 AM

Drug Courts

WATCH: When San Francisco Stopped Prosecuting Drug Users, Violent Crime Went Down

Zach Weissmueller | 12.2.2014 12:30 PM

Politics

Scott Walker's Repellent, Unconstitutional Call to Drug-Test Welfare Recipients

Nick Gillespie | 11.12.2014 5:09 PM

Policy

Guns and Pot: Which States Are Friendly to Both?

The guns 'n' dope Venn diagram

Jason Keisling and Jesse Walker | 11.10.2014 11:50 AM

Civil Liberties

Psychedelic Science

Despite steep regulatory barriers, researchers are exploring the therapeutic possibilities of ecstasy, acid, and mushrooms.

Kevin Franciotti | 11.2.2014 10:00 AM

Policy

Criminal Case Reopens the Issue of Marijuana's Legal Status

Jacob Sullum | 10.31.2014 4:41 PM

Policy

On Drug Policy Reform, a Dozen Republican Congressmen Get an A+ (and 136 Get an F)

Jacob Sullum | 10.30.2014 11:16 AM

Policy

Rand Paul in 2000: 'End That War on Drugs'

Jacob Sullum | 10.28.2014 5:35 PM

Politics

Video Q/A with Gamer-Congressman Jared Polis (D-Colo.)

Scott Shackford and Alex Manning | 10.25.2014 10:30 AM

Politics

#WINNING: Afghan Poppy Production "At An All-Time High" UPDATED!

Nick Gillespie | 10.21.2014 1:45 PM

Politics

Get Over It, Hickenlooper, Beauprez: Pot is the New Normal

Nick Gillespie | 10.17.2014 11:31 AM

Policy

State Department's Top Drug Warrior Says Legalization Must Be Tolerated

Jacob Sullum | 10.14.2014 5:08 PM

Policy

Scalia, Thomas, and Ginsburg File Rare Dissent from SCOTUS Refusal to Hear Crack-Cocaine Sentencing Case

Damon Root | 10.14.2014 10:32 AM

Policy

3 Striking Signs of Growing Pot Tolerance

Jacob Sullum | 10.13.2014 1:59 PM

Politics

'Extremely Misunderstood' Pot Prohibitionist Likens Cannabis Consumers to Drunk Drivers

Jacob Sullum | 10.6.2014 2:46 PM

Policy

Rise of the Mystery Highs

How prohibition drives people toward riskier drugs

Jacob Sullum | 10.6.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

The Mystery of Cloud 9: How Drug Laws Make Drugs More Dangerous

Jacob Sullum | 10.3.2014 12:40 PM

Economics

Silk Road Drugs: MDMA Most Popular, Lots of Prescription Meds, And More Data

Zenon Evans | 10.2.2014 11:45 AM

Policy

New Survey Data Deflate Two Drug Scares

As heroin use and teenage pot smoking fall, alarm about them rises.

Jacob Sullum | 9.29.2014 8:30 AM

Policy

As Heroin Use And Teenage Pot Smoking Fall, Alarm About Them Rises

Jacob Sullum | 9.26.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

Joseph McNamara, Drug Warrior Turned Conscientious Objector, RIP

Jacob Sullum | 9.22.2014 3:34 PM

Policy

Alarm About a 'Heroin Epidemic' Skyrockets As Heroin Use Falls

Jacob Sullum | 9.17.2014 1:16 PM

Civil Liberties

Zane Kesey and the New Merry Pranksters' Acid(-Free) Tests

They're keeping counterculture kicking.

Zenon Evans | 9.17.2014 11:00 AM

Policy

How Much Pot Does It Take to Turn Teenagers Into Suicidal Dropouts?

Jacob Sullum | 9.15.2014 12:15 PM

Politics

Ending the Global Drug War: Voices from the Front Lines

Anthony Fisher | 9.14.2014 1:00 PM

Policy

Formerly Timid Statesmen Recommend Broad Drug Legalization

Jacob Sullum | 9.9.2014 4:00 PM

Culture

How 'Boardwalk Empire' Made Prohibition Talk in Vogue Again

Paul Detrick | 9.7.2014 5:00 PM

Policy

New Survey Data: More Pot Smoking, Less Heroin and Cocaine Use

Jacob Sullum | 9.5.2014 6:52 PM

Policy

25 Years Ago President George Bush Waved a Bag of Crack in Our Faces. What Good Came of It?

Brian Doherty | 9.5.2014 1:11 PM

Policy

Rand Paul Says Criminal Justice Reform Can Expand the GOP's Appeal

Jacob Sullum | 9.3.2014 1:42 PM

Science & Technology

Agora Is the Web's Top Black Marketplace

Zenon Evans | 9.2.2014 1:00 PM

War on Drugs

Santa Fe Becomes First City in New Mexico to Decriminalize Marijuana

City council skips ballot measure, saves $80,000

Reason Staff | 8.28.2014 12:30 PM

Politics

Why Legal Pot is Better Than the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS

Nick Gillespie | 8.27.2014 11:12 AM

Policy

States With Medical Marijuana Laws Have Lower Opioid Overdose Rates

Jacob Sullum | 8.25.2014 7:35 PM

Policy

PCP Hallucinations in Ferguson

Blaming drugs for Michael Brown's death revives an ugly stereotype.

Jacob Sullum | 8.25.2014 8:30 AM

Policy

The Shooting of Michael Brown and the Phantom Menace of Drug-Crazed Blacks

Jacob Sullum | 8.22.2014 11:19 AM

Policy

Pot Prohibitionists Emphasize That Marijuana Is Mainstream and Respectable

Jacob Sullum | 8.4.2014 1:02 PM

Policy

Rand Paul Amendment Would Bar Prosecution of Medical Marijuana Patients

Jacob Sullum | 7.24.2014 6:27 PM

Policy

Drug War Refugees

Thousands of Central American children are fleeing prohibition-related violence.

Jacob Sullum | 7.23.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

Vote to Apply Sentencing Change Retroactively Could Let Nearly Half of Federal Drug War Prisoners Go Free Early

Jacob Sullum | 7.18.2014 1:40 PM

War on Drugs

WHO: Decriminalize Intravenous Drug Use to Help End HIV

Paul Best | 7.17.2014 3:56 PM

Policy

Michael Gerson Explains Why Libertarians Should Want to Ban Everything

Jacob Sullum | 7.16.2014 3:55 PM

Policy

Since When Do Libertarians Support Gun Control and Taxpayer-Funded Abortions?

Jacob Sullum | 7.16.2014 1:29 PM

Policy

Should Expectant Moms Who Test Positive For Drugs Go to Jail?

Tennessee's law criminalizing drug use during pregnancy arbitrarily heaps punishment on reviled women.

Jacob Sullum | 7.16.2014 7:00 AM