Marijuana

Marijuana

The Feds Say: Don't You Dare Call Marijuana Medicine

The Justice Department prosecutes medical marijuana patients while tolerating commercial cannabis.

Jacob Sullum | 5.19.2014 8:30 AM

Policy

Uruguay's Buttoned-Down Version of Marijuana Legalization

Jacob Sullum | 5.16.2014 5:54 PM

Policy

If Pot Is Legal in Washington, Why Do These Medical Marijuana Users Face At Least 10 Years in Prison?

Jacob Sullum | 5.16.2014 11:12 AM

Politics

Ron Paul on GOP Fear of Pot Legalization: 'They still perceive that it's a risky political position to take'

Matt Welch | 5.16.2014 8:33 AM

Policy

There's a Food Truck That Hawks Legal Cannabis-Laced Edibles

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.15.2014 3:31 PM

Politics

Rick Santorum: Libertarian Ideas 'don't work in practice'

Matt Welch | 5.15.2014 8:57 AM

Policy

What Does Denver Have Against Getting Stoned and Listening to Music?

Jacob Sullum | 5.14.2014 5:09 PM

Civil Liberties

Don't Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em

Charles Oliver | 5.14.2014 6:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Brickbat: Don't Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em

Charles Oliver | 5.14.2014 6:00 AM

War on Drugs

U.S. Customs Seize Kentucky-Bound Hemp Seeds

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.13.2014 10:45 AM

Marijuana

The Medical Marijuana Debate in Minnesota Continues

Paul Feine | 5.12.2014 4:25 PM

Uruguay

Uruguay's President Lectures Americans on Cigarettes and Becoming a Bilingual Country

Recently signed a bill into law that legalized and regulated marijuana

Ed Krayewski | 5.12.2014 1:50 PM

Policy

Anti-Pot Group Trumpets Obama's 2011 Comment on Drug Legalization As 'Huge News!'

Jacob Sullum | 5.12.2014 11:47 AM

Policy

Washington's Marijuana Lottery: Good Odds, Big Cash Prizes

Jacob Sullum | 5.9.2014 4:52 PM

Policy

Will Congress Keep D.C. From Decriminalizing Marijuana?

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.9.2014 3:25 PM

Policy

NYPD Busts Lots of Pot Smokers Despite Drop in Street Stops

Jacob Sullum | 5.9.2014 2:25 PM

Marijuana

The Long Road to Dismantling Prohibition

Ed Krayewski | 5.9.2014 12:59 PM

Culture

Is Reason's New Video Game Cover Sexist?

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.8.2014 7:22 PM

Culture

Operation Grow4Vets Is Helping Colorado Veterans With Free Marijuana and Grow Lessons

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.8.2014 2:29 PM

Politics

Did Massachusetts' High Quality Health Care System Give Romneycare a Boost?

Peter Suderman | 5.8.2014 2:10 PM

Policy

Why Colorado's 'Cannabis Credit Co-Ops' Won't Solve the Marijuana Banking Problem

Jacob Sullum | 5.8.2014 12:04 PM

Policy

Drug Warriors Target Dangerous Pot Substitutes Popularized by Prohibition

Jacob Sullum | 5.7.2014 7:26 PM

Policy

Feds Prosecute Medical Marijuana Users in Washington City Where Cannabusinesses Openly Operate

Jacob Sullum | 5.7.2014 1:50 PM

Policy

Can We End the War on Drugs Without Repealing Prohibition?

Jacob Sullum | 5.6.2014 8:02 PM

Policy

British Deputy PM Backs 'Ending the Drug Wars' Report

Matthew Feeney | 5.6.2014 10:55 AM

Politics

Update: School District Sues County in Case of Autistic Teen Entrapped for Selling Pot

Amanda Winkler | 5.5.2014 5:00 PM

Policy

Washington's First State-Licensed Pot Dealer May Share a Building With Its First State-Licensed Pot Grower

Jacob Sullum | 5.5.2014 3:59 PM

Civil Liberties

2,770 Teens Drug Tested by Company Headed by School Principal's Brother

Drug war crusaders are stripping high school students of privacy and trust.

Zenon Evans | 5.2.2014 4:31 PM

Police Abuse

Rapper Meek Mill Loses Lawsuit Over 10-Hour Traffic Stop in Philadelphia

Ed Krayewski | 5.2.2014 3:25 PM

Policy

Washington's Marijuana Regulators Pick Retail License Finalists

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2014 1:39 PM

Policy

Why America Leads the World at Putting People in Cages

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2014 9:35 PM

Policy

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Expands Police Power to Conduct Warrantless Car Searches

Damon Root | 5.1.2014 11:31 AM

Culture

'Classically Cannabis': Colorado Symphony Orchestra Goes to Pot

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.1.2014 10:46 AM

Policy

Washington Court Rejects Legal Rationale for Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, but That's Not Why Their Days Are Numbered

Jacob Sullum | 4.30.2014 6:11 PM

Politics

Mediaite: 'Here Are the Best Moments from Hannity's Clownshow Weed Panel'

Matt Welch | 4.30.2014 12:47 PM

Politics

The State of Marijuana Legalization

A 50-state guide to the legality of pot

John Ross | 4.30.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Obama Is Right on Clemency for Non-Violent Drug Offenders

Conservatives have no good reason to caterwaul this time.

Gene Healy | 4.29.2014 12:00 PM

Policy

Pot Prohibitionists Will Have to Do Better Than Bill Bennett's BS

Jacob Sullum | 4.28.2014 4:16 PM

Marijuana

What We Saw at the Denver 4/20 Celebration of Marijuana Legalization

Paul Feine | 4.25.2014 6:00 PM

The Independents

Tonight on The Independents: Up in Your Business! And Immediately After, Watch Matt Welch Debate Pot Prohibitionists on Hannity

Matt Welch | 4.25.2014 2:54 PM

Culture

AirTHC Aims to Connect Weed-Friendly Homeowners and Travelers

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.25.2014 2:46 PM

Politics

John Paul Stevens, Leading Enabler of the War on Drugs, Says Pot Prohibition Was a Big Mistake

Jacob Sullum | 4.25.2014 1:34 PM

Politics

Watch Matt Welch Debate Pot Prohibitionists Tonight at 10 p.m. on Hannity (Update: False Alarm)

Matt Welch | 4.23.2014 9:26 PM

Policy

Arizona Supreme Court Makes It Harder to Convict Unimpaired Pot Smokers of Driving Under the Influence

Jacob Sullum | 4.23.2014 4:58 PM

Policy

New Clemency Policy Could Free 'Hundreds, Perhaps Thousands' of Drug War Prisoners (and Yes, That Would Be Constitutional)

Jacob Sullum | 4.23.2014 2:04 PM

Culture

Ohio Alt-Weekly 'Can't Locate' Anyone to Argue Against Legal Weed

The Dayton City Paper, an alt-weekly out of Dayton, Ohio, recently ran a "debate" on marijuana legalization. On one side of the page, a DCP staffer argued in favor of Ohio moving to legalize. The other side of the page was mostly blank.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.23.2014 12:55 PM

Sentencing

Criteria Set for DOJ Reviews of Clemency Application

Have to be non-violent with no significant criminal history and already in jail 10 years

Ed Krayewski | 4.23.2014 11:16 AM