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 two U.S. allies were OK with helping arrest suspected drug smugglers, but not with helping kill them.
Author Katie Herzog examines new approaches to treating addiction, the cultural obsession with moralizing sobriety, and why she believes freedom means choosing how to heal.
The most common uses of "magic mushrooms" will never gain FDA approval.
Filmmaker Jon Shenk and former Navy SEAL Marcus Capone discuss how psychedelics are helping veterans recover from war trauma.
President Trump’s pretextual claim that fentanyl carrying drug boats in the Caribbean are an existential threat to Americans doesn’t pass muster.
Humboldt County, California's sketchy code enforcement scheme piles ruinous fines on innocent people and sets them up to lose.
Cities and states promised to use opioid settlement money to fight addiction. Instead, they’re spending it on concerts, police cars, and political perks.
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 president bet that no one would stop him from land attacks in Venezuela. And Congress hasn’t given him any reason to think otherwise.
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.
Plus: Karl Marxing my neighborhood, No Kings, the limits of tariff revenue, and more...
Until now, the president concedes, interdiction has been "totally ineffective." Blowing up drug boats won't change that reality.
Plus: Law and order in Philly, SCOTUS audience, Ackman drops some dough, and more...
A new biography explores the life and ideas of the man who founded the first primitive religion of the future.
A new law hands hemp distribution to the same powerful middlemen who dominate liquor sales and block out-of-state suppliers.
The lesson isn’t that decriminalization can’t work. It’s that Portland-style governance is broken.
"She was a behind-the-scenes character who was propping up [Timothy] Leary," says the author of The Acid Queen.
In her new book, 107 Days, the former vice president reminds us that she is ever the prosecutor.
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.
Most U.S. drug traffickers are Americans, but the president is ordering extrajudicial maritime killings while ignoring the domestic demand that drives the market.
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.
California tried to use drones to find illegal marijuana operations, but they found building code violations instead.
The agency's puzzling concerns about the Lykos Therapeutics drug application
The logic of the war on terror means infinitely expandable government power.
The attack follows the largest U.S. military buildup in Latin America since 1989, as Washington escalates its campaign against cartels tied to Nicolás Maduro’s regime.
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."
A bizarre criminal conspiracy in the ranks of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg
Federal terrorist lists were not supposed to be an open-ended war authorization. But it sure looks like it’s being used as one.
Canada accounts for a tiny percentage of fentanyl smuggling, which cannot be stopped by trying harder.
The Third Circuit held that such organizations may raise religious exemption claims, though it declined to decide (at this stage of the litigation) whether the claim would prevail on the facts of this case.
William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg's trip reports form one of the most entertaining books in the Beat canon.
I participated along with Andrew Morris of the New Civil Liberties Alliance.
The contrast between the two cases illustrates the haphazard impact of an arbitrary, constitutionally dubious gun law.
The success of "contingency management" belies the notion that addiction is an uncontrollable disease caused by a drug's impact on dopamine levels.
West Virginia's overdose data prove it: Officials misunderstood the problem, and patients paid the price.
City Journal's Rafael Mangual and Charles Fain Lehman debate Reason's Billy Binion and Jacob Sullum on legalizing all drugs.
Drug Smuggler. Fugitive. Icon. Meet the Acid Queen.
Researchers argue that "we may need to reevaluate the causal assumptions that underlie brain disease models of addiction."
In Greed to Do Good, a former CDC physician calls the agency's war on opioids a disaster.
A religious group using psilocybin mushrooms in ceremonies "put the State of Utah's commitment to religious freedom to the test," a federal judge wrote.
A new book looks at addiction through the lens of choice and responsibility.
A spiritual successor to the Drug Wars game that proliferated on high school graphing calculators
