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."
The contrast between the two cases illustrates the haphazard impact of an arbitrary, constitutionally dubious gun law.
Next week could be a pivotal one, as a federal appeals court could decide whether to restore an injunction against Trump's tariffs.
Like it or not, Gonzales v. Raich remains good law, and federal prohibition is constitutional under current doctrine.
The former congressman, who died this week, transformed from a zealous prohibitionist into a drug policy reformer.
Six years after legalizing hemp and its by-products, the state is revising its drug policies and criminalizing products sold by thousands of Texas businesses.
The state legalized medical marijuana but banned dispensary owners from advertising. Now, one owner is taking the fight to the Supreme Court.
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As part of a broader policy shift, the government plans to "start from scratch" regarding the permits.
Fogel's story closely mirrored that of Brittney Griner's. But he did not receive the same urgency from the Biden administration, even though he was arrested six months prior.
Recent election results show the drug war’s punitive mentality still appeals to many Americans, even in blue states.
Patrick Darnell Daniels Jr. was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for violating a federal law that bars drug users from owning firearms.
Voters overwhelmingly favored the new policy, which a former state legislator unsuccessfully tried to block.
Although marijuana prohibition has collapsed in one state after another, Congress has yet to take even the modest step that Carter recommended back in 1977.
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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.
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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.
