Drug Policy

Policy

How Cops Became Baby Burners

The horrifying collateral damage inflicted by the war on drugs

Jacob Sullum | 6.4.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

Republicans Say Obama Has a Crappy Clemency Record—and They Want to Keep It That Way

Jacob Sullum | 6.3.2014 4:53 PM

Black Markets

Researchers Ponder Whether Online Drug Markets Like Silk Road Reduce Violence

Scott Shackford | 6.2.2014 4:45 PM

Policy

Why Did Baby-Burning Drug Warriors Think There Were No Children in the Home They Attacked? [UPDATED]

Jacob Sullum | 6.2.2014 1:31 PM

Policy

Anti-Pot Prejudice vs. Federalism

Growing Republican support for letting states go their own way on medical marijuana

Jacob Sullum | 6.2.2014 10:00 AM

Politics

Anti-Pot Republicans Forsake Federalism in Medical Marijuana Vote

Jacob Sullum | 5.30.2014 11:29 AM

Policy

House Votes to Stop Medical Marijuana Raids

Jacob Sullum | 5.30.2014 7:54 AM

Policy

Recipe for a Life Sentence: Mix Two Kinds of Prohibitionist Idiocy

Mix hash brownies with two kinds of prohibitionist idiocy.

Jacob Sullum | 5.26.2014 1:30 PM

Politics

Where the War on Pot Will Go to Die

Nick Gillespie | 5.23.2014 11:24 AM

Policy

How to Make Hash Brownies (Into a Life Sentence)

Jacob Sullum | 5.23.2014 11:00 AM

Policy

Another Study That Does Not Show Legalizing Pot Boosts Traffic Fatalities

Jacob Sullum | 5.22.2014 10:40 AM

War on Drugs

FBI Director Scolded for 'Making Light' of Marijuana Use

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.21.2014 5:10 PM

Politics

Nick Gillespie on CNN's Erin Burnett Outfront, Talking Life Sentence for Hash Brownies

Nick Gillespie | 5.21.2014 4:47 PM

Policy

How You Can Get Life for Hash Brownies in Texas

Jacob Sullum | 5.20.2014 7:43 PM

Policy

The Deadhead Who Got Life for Mailing LSD—and Five Other Leading Candidates for Clemency

Jacob Sullum | 5.19.2014 4:05 PM

Policy

Marco Rubio Stonewalls on His Pot Smoking—for the Children

Jacob Sullum | 5.19.2014 1:58 PM

Marijuana

The Feds Say: Don't You Dare Call Marijuana Medicine

The Justice Department prosecutes medical marijuana patients while tolerating commercial cannabis.

Jacob Sullum | 5.19.2014 8:30 AM

Policy

If Pot Is Legal in Washington, Why Do These Medical Marijuana Users Face At Least 10 Years in Prison?

Jacob Sullum | 5.16.2014 11:12 AM

Culture

Responses to Reason's Gamer Poll: Is Personal Choice Really a Libertarian Thing?

Scott Shackford | 5.12.2014 5:30 PM

Policy

Anti-Pot Group Trumpets Obama's 2011 Comment on Drug Legalization As 'Huge News!'

Jacob Sullum | 5.12.2014 11:47 AM

Policy

The Need for Speed and the Politics of Panics

The results of meth hysteria have been uglier than a tweeker in an anti-drug ad.

Jacob Sullum | 5.12.2014 8:30 AM

Politics

It's Not Racist to Hate the Government

Democrats and progressives are flat-out wrong about libertarians.

Nick Gillespie | 5.11.2014 3:30 PM

Policy

Will Congress Keep D.C. From Decriminalizing Marijuana?

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.9.2014 3:25 PM

Policy

NYPD Busts Lots of Pot Smokers Despite Drop in Street Stops

Jacob Sullum | 5.9.2014 2:25 PM

Policy

School Drug Testing All Its Students Censors 'Seditious' Dissent

Zenon Evans | 5.9.2014 1:25 PM

Policy

The Politics of Meth Panics

Jacob Sullum | 5.9.2014 10:35 AM

Civil Liberties

Brickbat: How Appealing

Charles Oliver | 5.9.2014 6:00 AM

Policy

Drug Warriors Target Dangerous Pot Substitutes Popularized by Prohibition

Jacob Sullum | 5.7.2014 7:26 PM

Policy

Can We End the War on Drugs Without Repealing Prohibition?

Jacob Sullum | 5.6.2014 8:02 PM

Policy

British Deputy PM Backs 'Ending the Drug Wars' Report

Matthew Feeney | 5.6.2014 10:55 AM

Policy

Washington's Marijuana Regulators Pick Retail License Finalists

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2014 1:39 PM

Policy

Why America Leads the World at Putting People in Cages

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2014 9:35 PM

Policy

Obama Finds His Clemency Pen

Commutations could be the president's most admirable legacy.

Jacob Sullum | 4.30.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

More States Moving to Legalize Industrial Hemp Farming

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.29.2014 4:10 PM

Politics

Obama Is Right on Clemency for Non-Violent Drug Offenders

Conservatives have no good reason to caterwaul this time.

Gene Healy | 4.29.2014 12:00 PM

Policy

Pot Prohibitionists Will Have to Do Better Than Bill Bennett's BS

Jacob Sullum | 4.28.2014 4:16 PM

War on Drugs

DOJ to Attempt to Determine Just How Racist Police Are

Federal grants will be offered for more research.

Scott Shackford | 4.28.2014 2:30 PM

Politics

John Paul Stevens, Leading Enabler of the War on Drugs, Says Pot Prohibition Was a Big Mistake

Jacob Sullum | 4.25.2014 1:34 PM

Policy

New Clemency Policy Could Free 'Hundreds, Perhaps Thousands' of Drug War Prisoners (and Yes, That Would Be Constitutional)

Jacob Sullum | 4.23.2014 2:04 PM

Sentencing

Criteria Set for DOJ Reviews of Clemency Application

Have to be non-violent with no significant criminal history and already in jail 10 years

Ed Krayewski | 4.23.2014 11:16 AM

Policy

Is a Major, Merciful Change in Presidential Pardon Policy Brewing?

Scott Shackford | 4.21.2014 4:00 PM

Politics

"Pot, Meth, Heroin, Gay": Stephen Colbert on the Ultimate Gateway-Drug Progression

Nick Gillespie | 4.21.2014 9:12 AM

Policy

Obama Surpasses the Awful Commutation Records of Three Republicans but Still Falls Far Short of Nixonian Mercy

Jacob Sullum | 4.17.2014 12:35 PM