Drug Policy

Policy

Arrested Bitcoin Leader Offered Freedom for $1 Million Bond

Charged with laundering money to Silk Road black market

Reason Staff | 1.27.2014 7:15 PM

Policy

SCOTUS Makes It Harder to Punish Drug Dealers for Their Customers' Deaths

Jacob Sullum | 1.27.2014 5:08 PM

Policy

Supreme Court Tosses Out Drug Conviction Based on User's Overdose Death

Unanimous ruling that dealer can't be held accountable if drug is a 'contributing' factor, not entirely main reason

Reason Staff | 1.27.2014 1:50 PM

Politics

Chuck Schumer, Marijuana Federalist

Jacob Sullum | 1.27.2014 1:30 PM

Politics

DEA Head Criticizes Obama for Telling the Truth About Marijuana

Jacob Sullum | 1.27.2014 12:01 PM

Politics

Rep. Trey Radel To Resign Following Cocaine Possession Arrest

Went to rehab after pleading guilty

Reason Staff | 1.27.2014 8:46 AM

Politics

Ending the War on Pot is Obama's Best Hope for a Legacy

He knows it's wrong, so why won't he do something to change federal policy?

Nick Gillespie | 1.25.2014 11:00 AM

Policy

Anti-Pot Activist Concedes Marijuana Is Safer Than Alcohol

Jacob Sullum | 1.24.2014 5:34 PM

Civil Liberties

The Dangers of Federal Snooping into Our Prescription Drug Records

Brian Doherty | 1.24.2014 2:20 PM

Politics

"Obama's Unfathomable, Bottomless, Contemptible Cowardice on Pot"

Nick Gillespie | 1.24.2014 1:54 PM

Policy

Jacob Sullum in Forbes: The President Forgets to Lie About Marijuana, and Prohibitionists Are Outraged

Reason Staff | 1.24.2014 10:30 AM

Policy

How Candy Snorting Went From a Joke to an Epidemic (Yet Remained a Joke)

Jacob Sullum | 1.23.2014 8:55 PM

Politics

UPDATED With Video!: Nick Gillespie vs. Patrick Kennedy on Pot Legalization; CNN 7.10pm ET

Nick Gillespie | 1.22.2014 9:26 PM

Policy

Chris Christie Will End the War on Drugs—Just Like Obama Did

Jacob Sullum | 1.22.2014 1:16 PM

Politics

WTF: Your Pot or Your Guns?!?! Illinois, BATF Say It's One or the Other!

Nick Gillespie | 1.22.2014 12:53 PM

Politics

Gov. Christie Calls for Alternatives to Drug War During Inauguration Speech

Calls for bipartisanship to end incarceration tendencies

Reason Staff | 1.21.2014 7:20 PM

Politics

Nick Gillespie vs. Patrick Kennedy, Talking Pot Legalization Tonight TOMORROW on CNN

Nick Gillespie | 1.21.2014 12:07 PM

Politics

Yes We Cannabis!: Obama's Best Shot at a Legacy is Ending the War on Pot

Nick Gillespie | 1.21.2014 9:50 AM

Politics

Ending the War on Pot Would Help Complete Martin Luther King's Call for Civil Rights

Nick Gillespie | 1.20.2014 9:58 AM

Policy

Obama Worries About the Gateway Effect of Marijuana Legalization

Jacob Sullum | 1.20.2014 9:53 AM

Policy

Obama Concedes Pot Prohibition Is Unscientific and Unjust

Jacob Sullum | 1.20.2014 8:48 AM

War on Drugs

Houston Police Just Assume Guy Giving Change to Homeless Man Is Dealing Drugs

Quarters, not quarter bags, officer

Scott Shackford | 1.17.2014 10:25 AM

Policy

Washington Legislators Mull Ban on Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, Competition for State-Licensed Pot Shops

Jacob Sullum | 1.16.2014 5:56 PM

Policy

Washington, D.C., on Verge of Decriminalizing Marijuana Possession

Scott Shackford | 1.15.2014 6:30 PM

Policy

DC City Council Panel Approves Marijuana Decriminalization

Would turn it into the equivalent of a parking ticket

Reason Staff | 1.15.2014 6:20 PM

Policy

Amnesty Boxes For Pot Set Up in Colorado Airport

For those who don't know it is illegal to have marijuana on a plane

Reason Staff | 1.15.2014 11:30 AM

Policy

Victim of Dog-Authorized Anal Assault Receives $1.6 Million Settlement

Jacob Sullum | 1.14.2014 5:58 PM

Policy

DC Council to Vote Wednesday on Marijuana Decriminalization

For one ounce or less for personal use

Reason Staff | 1.14.2014 3:40 PM

Policy

Study: Drug Testing in Schools Ineffective

Doesn't stop students from trying them

Reason Staff | 1.14.2014 1:40 PM

Policy

Krokodil Crock

How rumors of a "flesh-eating zombie drug" swept the nation

Jacob Sullum | 1.14.2014 10:00 AM

War on Drugs

See America's Longest War in Austin

Reason Staff | 1.13.2014 1:51 PM

Policy

Ted Cruz Faults Obama for Not Imposing Marijuana Prohibition on States That Have Rejected It

Jacob Sullum | 1.13.2014 12:18 PM

Policy

Syria Becomes "Major Amphetamines Exporter and Consumer" Amid Civil War

Matthew Feeney | 1.13.2014 9:59 AM

Politics

Reason TV: Rabbi Fights Feds to Open Pot Shop

Amanda Winkler | 1.11.2014 7:27 PM

Policy

When You're Covering the Bogus Krokodil Epidemic, Even Rumors of a Rumor Will Do

Jacob Sullum | 1.10.2014 1:26 PM

Policy

Jacob Sullum in Forbes: How Rumors of a 'Flesh-Eating Zombie Drug' Swept the Nation

Reason Staff | 1.10.2014 11:41 AM

Policy

How Pro Sports Should React to Pot Legalization (But Won't)

Nick Gillespie | 1.9.2014 7:01 PM

Policy

Cuomo's Medical Marijuana Plan: The Mystery Deepens

Jacob Sullum | 1.9.2014 6:50 PM

Policy

Nuclear Launch Officers Tied to Narcotics Investigation

How comforting

Reason Staff | 1.9.2014 6:20 PM

Policy

Media-Induced Krokodil Hallucinations Sweep the Country

Jacob Sullum | 1.8.2014 2:48 PM

Policy

Colorado Pot Sales Bring in More Than $5 Million in First Week

Around $600 million in sales projected annually

Reason Staff | 1.8.2014 12:10 PM

Politics

What Pot Legalization Could Teach Obamacare

Nick Gillespie | 1.8.2014 10:43 AM

Politics

Pathetic Pot Prohibitionists

Legalization in Colorado reveals the intellectual poverty of the war on marijuana.

Jacob Sullum | 1.8.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Bill O'Reilly Makes Millions of Marijuana Arrests Disappear

Jacob Sullum | 1.7.2014 6:57 PM

Politics

David Brooks' Anti-Pot NY Times Col No Dumber Than His Paper's Editorial

Nick Gillespie | 1.7.2014 4:59 PM

Politics

CNN Finds Most Americans Want to Legalize Pot, Demonstrating It Is Just As Unreliable As Gallup

Jacob Sullum | 1.7.2014 11:18 AM

Policy

CNN/ORC International Poll: Majority of Americans Support Legalizing Marijuana

55 percent support legalization

Reason Staff | 1.7.2014 10:10 AM

Policy

Where Will Cuomo Get His Medical Marijuana?

Jacob Sullum | 1.6.2014 2:34 PM