Drugs

Politics

Potheads, Puritans, and Pragmatists

Two marijuana initiatives put drug warriors on the defensive.

Jacob Sullum | 10.18.2006 3:48 PM

Policy

Studying Shrooms

Psilocybin and spirituality

Jacob Sullum | 10.1.2006 9:48 AM

Policy

The Case of Cory Maye

A cop is dead, an innocent man may be on death row, and drug warriors keep knocking down doors.

Radley Balko | 10.1.2006 8:42 AM

Policy

The Accidental Drug Trafficker

A repudiation of prosecutions that treat doctors' errors in judgment as felonies

Jacob Sullum | 8.30.2006 9:56 AM

Policy

Crystal Smear

Meth joke backlash

David Weigel | 8.20.2006 11:04 AM

Policy

Coping With Doping

If it's allowed, it's not cheating.

Jacob Sullum | 8.2.2006 4:09 PM

Policy

Bet On Handcuffs

The long arm of American paternalism

Jacob Sullum | 7.26.2006 4:03 PM

Policy

Data: Circle Game

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2006 2:31 PM

Policy

Impaired Reasoning

Should last week's joint disqualify a pot smoker from driving today?

Jacob Sullum | 6.28.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Tea for 130

Religious rituals and the drug war

Jacob Sullum | 6.5.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

"The Doctor Wasn't Cruel Enough"

How one physician escaped the panic over prescription drugs

Maia Szalavitz | 6.2.2006 4:43 PM

Politics

Sleepwalking Into History, Kennedy Style

How Patrick Kennedy's dangerous driving became Ambien's fault

John Tabin | 5.15.2006 9:50 AM

Policy

Blow for Injustice

The scandal of Tulia is the scandal of the war on drugs.

Jacob Sullum | 5.5.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Pill Penalty Puzzle

Should Rush Limbaugh be grateful he didn't get 25 years?

Jacob Sullum | 5.3.2006 3:23 PM

Policy

Speed Misreading

Meth survey on crack

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

Government Goons Murder Puppies!

The drug war goes to the dogs.

Radley Balko | 4.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Blow in the Wind

Cocaine interdiction fiction.

Jacob Sullum | 4.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Artifact: Drug Freak Show

Jacob Sullum | 3.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Making a Meth of the PATRIOT Act

Legislative mission creep will turn runny noses and lobster fishing into terrorist acts

John Berlau | 2.23.2006 3:15 PM

Politics

Down From the High

Do Bush's drug warriors have a time machine?

Jacob Sullum | 2.8.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

That Chemo Cachet

Medical marijuana and kids.

Jacob Sullum | 1.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Poppy Flop

The drug war's high yields.

Jacob Sullum | 12.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Ice, Ice Baby

Infant speed freaks?

Jacob Sullum | 11.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Honest Agents

Narcs on the Web.

Daniel Koffler | 10.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

In Defense of Happy Pills

Why talk to a shrink if Prozac or Zoloft will do the trick?

Maia Szalavitz | 10.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

There Is No Joy in Juiceville. Why Not?

Nick Gillespie | 8.11.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Data: Pot Bust

Jacob Sullum | 8.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Locking Up Life-Saving Drugs

Prescription laws make us sicker and poorer.

Kerry Howley | 8.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Self-Medicating in Burma

Pharmaceutical freedom in an outpost of tyranny.

Kerry Howley | 8.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

The Search for Real Absinthe

Like Tinkerbell, the Green Fairy lives only if we believe in her.

Jacob Sullum | 8.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Heresy on the Right

Conservatives and the drug war.

Jacob Sullum | 7.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

In Defense of Steroids

Jose Canseco's surprisingly sensible case for juice.

Aaron Steinberg | 6.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Legalize Now!

War-weary Colombia--and its Conservative Party--consider ending the drug war.

Toby Muse | 6.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Psychedelic Revival

Research on forbidden drugs.

Jacob Sullum | 6.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

The Poison in the Pill

Nick Gillespie | 5.17.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Injustice is Blind

Federal sentencing in flux.

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Advertising Dissent

Drug warriors back down.

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Psychedelic Tea

Drugs and religious freedom

Jacob Sullum | 3.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Disappearing Docs

DEA painkiller flip-flop

Jacob Sullum | 2.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Speed Tracers

Sudafed clampdown

Jacob Sullum | 1.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Trust Busters

A pain doctor's drug trafficking conviction sets a chilling precedent

Jacob Sullum | 12.17.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

George Bush vs. Barry Bonds

The government's effective smear campaign against baseball's best player

Matt Welch | 12.8.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

A Mania Called Horse

What is the new heroin? What isn't?

Radley Balko | 12.6.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Healers and Dealers

Prosecuting doctors for their patients' misuse of narcotics hurts people in pain

Jacob Sullum | 11.19.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Fluid Check

Drug test debunking.

Jacob Sullum | 11.1.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Tripped Up

Joel Miller's Bad Trip kills the government's anti-drug buzz. A Reason interview

Jeremy Lott | 10.6.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Injecting Tyranny

Anti-drug "vaccines"

Jacob Sullum | 10.1.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Open Secrets

How the government lost the drug war in cyberspace.

Michael Erard | 10.1.2004 12:00 AM