Drug Policy
Drug Trial
Is "medicalization" the first step in ending the drug war? Or just the next step in continuing it? Jacob Sullum lays out the "public health" issues and a panel of experts responds.
Public Health As an Alternative to the War on Drugs
Delivered at the Drug Policy Foundation's 11th International Conference on Drug Policy Reform, October 17, 1997.
Prescription: Drugs
When California and Arizona overwhelmingly passed initiatives allowing the medical use of marijuana, drug warriors were apoplectic. What do these measures mean?
No Relief in Sight
Torture, despair, agony, and death are the symptoms of "opiophobia," a well-documented medical syndrome fed by fear, superstition, and the war on drugs. Doctors suffer the syndrome. Patients suffer the consequences.
Smoke Alarm
This weed will make you stupid, unemployable, and lethargic. Now it's pot. It used to be tobacco.
Alcohol: Getting Wetter?
There are signs of a healthy shift away from hostility toward alcohol in the United States.
Drugs: Mock Debate
A DEA manual on how to argue against legalization shows lack of imagination.
Drug Legalization and the News Media
The Eighth International Conference on Drug Policy Reform, Washington, D.C. (1994)
Mind Alteration: An Interview with Ethan Nadelmann
Drug-policy scholar Ethan Nadelmann on turning people against drug prohibition
A Free Market in Drugs
Seventh International Conference on Drug Policy Reform, Washington, D.C.
