The House Ethics Committee's findings, combined with Gaetz's lack of relevant experience, again raise the question of why Donald Trump picked him for attorney general.
Using force to make people give up drugs is both dangerous and morally wrong.
Though he commuted some drug offenders' sentences, Biden never delivered on the rest of his drug reform promises.
Joe Biden says his son did not deserve prison for violating firearm laws that the president vigorously defends and has made more severe.
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The proposal brings to mind the classic "bootleggers and Baptists" theory in which both moralists and competitors oppose a substance.
The nominee for attorney general passes the Trump loyalty test, but he lacks relevant experience and has repeatedly demonstrated poor judgment.
Ksenia Karelina was prosecuted as part of a larger “treason” crackdown that is unprecedented even by Russia’s illiberal standards.
The ballot initiative says a whiff of weed does not establish probable cause for a search or seizure, which was already doubtful in light of hemp legalization.
Despite a few bright spots, the disappointing returns suggest that the road to pharmacological freedom will be rockier than activists hoped.
Residents of the two deep-red states have approved medical use of cannabis but remain leery of going further.
Whether the policy will actually be implemented depends on the outcome of a legal challenge.
A majority of the state's voters said yes to Amendment Three, but that wasn't enough to clear the 60 percent threshold required to pass a Florida ballot initiative.
The two-time Libertarian Party presidential nominee shares his thoughts on Chase Oliver and the election.
Whether you're facing existential dread about this election's outcome or just hoping that we at least know the outcome before the week is over, cannabis can be a welcome stress reliever.
The change in official warnings and news coverage reflects the dearth of evidence that malicious pranksters are trying to dose trick-or-treaters.
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The ballot initiatives would allow recreational marijuana use in Florida and the Dakotas, authorize medical marijuana in Nebraska, and decriminalize five natural psychedelics in Massachusetts.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz both back marijuana legalization, but they took different paths to get there.
A trucker lost his job because he tested positive for marijuana after consuming a supposedly THC-free CBD tincture.
Mom-and-pop marijuana operations do not exist in Florida. That's by design.
Mom-and-pop marijuana operations do not exist in Florida. That's by design.
Although the framing is a transparent political ploy, it is reassuring to see that the vice president has not abandoned her opposition to the federal ban.
The new law should help licensed retailers compete with the black market while mitigating the odor that offends Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.
The recordings demonstrate yet again that drug warriors always knew marijuana wasn't that bad—they just didn't care.
Newsom's "emergency" rules banning all THC in hemp products doesn't square with his insistence that his state provides more freedom than Florida under Gov. Ron DeSantis.
His new stance could encourage Vice President Kamala Harris to emphasize her opposition to federal marijuana prohibition.
"We are living in pure chaos," an incarcerated woman at a federal prison in Minnesota tells Reason following a string of suspected overdoses.
It remains unclear whether either would do anything about that as president.
At least he draws the right conclusion from this imaginary hazard, acknowledging the dangers created by prohibition.
Trump says the legislature should ban public pot smoking but that we shouldn't waste money arresting adults for possession.
The official Democratic Party platform no longer endorses abolishing the death penalty, decriminalizing marijuana, or repealing mandatory minimums.
Democrats' official 2024 platform praises President Joe Biden's marijuana pardons but fails to call for decriminalization.
The Democratic vice presidential nominee has a long record of supporting cannabis reform.
While lawmakers remain resistant to change, most of the public thinks it's high time to stop treating marijuana as dangerous.
The ruling means it's not child neglect for a pregnant woman prescribed medical marijuana to use it. But some judges say it should be.
The presumptive Democratic nominee has a more liberal drug policy record than both the president and the Republican presidential nominee.
How legislators learned to stop worrying about the constitutionality of federal drug and gun laws by abusing the Commerce Clause.
Under the law, the feds couldn't deny you a job or security clearance just because you've used marijuana in the past.
Defending the federal ban on gun possession by drug users, the government's lawyers seem increasingly desperate.
Every year, thousands of U.S. residents are deported for drug-related activity, including minor offenses and conduct that states have legalized.
How legislators learned to stop worrying about the constitutionality of federal drug and gun laws by abusing the Commerce Clause
The Manhattan Institute's Charles Fain Lehman misleadingly equates a survey's measure of "cannabis use disorder" with "compulsive" consumption that causes "health and social problems."
A widely cited study commits so many egregious statistical errors that it's a poster child for junk science.
The state has thousands of unauthorized shops but fewer than 200 licensed marijuana sellers.
The blanket pardon is one of the largest yet, and another sign of the collapse of public support for marijuana prohibition.
Does the National Labor Relations Board have jurisdiction over a medical marijuana dispensary's treatment of its employees?
The state's gun permit policy underlines the absurdity of assuming that cannabis consumers are too dangerous to be trusted with firearms.
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