On Marijuana and Guns, Clarence Thomas Still Wants To Limit Federal Power
The conservative justice continues to wage a lonely legal crusade over the Commerce Clause.
Drugs
Fiddlers, Drunkards, Marijuana, and the Second Amendment
The Supreme Court's unanimous decision in Hemani.
Supreme Court Makes It Clear There Is No Drug Exception to the Second Amendment
The unanimous decision upholding the gun rights of cannabis consumers is striking given the Supreme Court's long history of accommodating the war on drugs.
Supreme Court Rules Government Cannot Bar Marijuana Users From Owning Guns
A notable 9-0 Second Amendment decision that features three concurring opinions, all of which make good points.
SCOTUS Says Federal Prosecution of Marijuana-Using Gun Owner Violates the Second Amendment
A landmark win for the right to keep and bear arms in United States v. Hemani.
Iowa Man Seen in Viral Body Camera Footage Wins $105,000 Wrongful Arrest Lawsuit
After nearly four years of legal battles, Tayvin Galanakis has finally won his case against the officers who arrested him for allegedly driving while intoxicated without probable cause.
Mitch McConnell's Hemp Ban Betrays the Industry He Helped Create
Federal prohibition of hemp-derived THC products would destroy a $37.5 billion industry to solve a problem states are already handling.
The Enhanced Games Proved Enhancement Works But Youth Works Better
But many older enhanced athletes did achieve better results than their younger selves.
Just 1 World Record at the Enhanced Games Shows the Integrity of the Competition
I watched hours and hours of the Enhanced Games so you didn’t have to.
Is the End of the Obesity Epidemic Near? People Lost Up to 85 Pounds Using New Weight Loss Drug
Eli Lilly's retatrutide is a significant advance on the promising results from drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy.
Lawsuits Accuse Corporate 'Cartel' of Monopolizing Missouri's Weed Market
A 10 percent ownership cap was supposed to prevent monopolies in Missouri's marijuana market. Instead, the state's licensing regime may have created a blueprint for companies to build one.
The FDA's New Psychedelic Rules Are Groovy, but the Agency Is Still a Bad Trip
The new rules will fast track clinical testing, but a far cry from legalization or decriminalization.
Reason Receives 17 Nominations for Southern California Journalism Awards
Nominees include stories on America's gerontocracy, the war on chocolate, how Texas beat California on housing, and more.
Patients Have a Right To Try. Why Can't They Use It?
Terminally ill patients were promised access to experimental treatments, but the "right to try" exists mostly on paper.
Damned if You Do
Plus: Ella Emhoff's SSRIs, measuring childhood independence, the hantavirus cruise ship, and more...
What To Do About Saudi Arabia's Sports Takeover? Nothing, Apparently.
Plus: The NFL has no easy response to the Dianna Russini–Mike Vrabel affair, and how ketamine may have helped the Sixers upset the Celtics
The FDA Fast-Tracks Its Review of Psilocybin and Methylone, 2 Promising Psychedelics
The agency issued "national priority vouchers" for the two drugs six days after President Donald Trump promised to facilitate approval of psychedelic therapies.
'Shoot and Kill'
Plus: California fails to unmask ICE agents, the illogic of medical-only marijuana rescheduling, driverless cars in D.C., and more...
Medical Marijuana Rescheduling Is Legally Puzzling but a 'Huge Win' for Patients, Suppliers, and Scientists
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's distinction between medical and recreational cannabis is hard to reconcile with the relevant scientific and statutory criteria.
Marijuana Rescheduled
Plus: skyway socialism, reconsider the lobster, D.C.'s urban growth, and more...
Trump's Embrace of Psychedelic Therapy Leaves Most Users on the Wrong Side of the Law
The medical model assumes that people should be allowed to use psychedelics only for government-approved reasons.
The Least Psychedelic President in History Supports Psychedelic Research More Than Any of His Predecessors
Donald Trump is an unlikely but powerful champion of drug reform.
Trump's Pro-Union Labor Secretary Out
Plus: Scandal at the Department of Labor, the real reasons people use psychedelics, more problems with Trump's triumphal arch, and more...
Can New York Survive Mamdani's Tax Plan?
Plus: Trump orders psychedelic drug research, Palantir calls for national service, and confusion surrounds Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.
The Promise and Limits of Trump's Psychedelic Therapy Order
The president's facilitation of research and FDA review could help make psychedelics available to approved patients. But what about everyone else?
3 Disasters That Legal Weed Didn't Unleash—Despite the Forecasts
From higher crime to teenage stoners, here are things that the weed debate got wrong.
Afroman on Becoming the 2028 Libertarian Presidential Nominee
Afroman discusses his free speech court victory, why he thinks he could unite America, and whether he feels pressure to always be high.
Trump Signs Psychedelics Order
Plus: ship seizures, the best free bread in America, and more...
Another Drug Boat Bombing
Plus: The U.S. blockade widens, Los Angeles teachers get a pay bump, the sunny side of a treeless national mall, and more...
Colorado Becomes First State To Protect Defendants Against Faulty Roadside Drug Tests
A 2024 study estimated that 30,000 people every year may be getting wrongly arrested due to unreliable roadside drug tests used by police.
Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Colombian Coca, Seattle PayUp Law, Dog Bombs (Vol. 21)
Good intentions, bad results.
Rodrigo Duterte's 'Death Squads' Fought in the Philippines' War on Drugs. Now He Might Get Life in Prison.
As many as 30,000 people may have died at the hands of the state-sponsored death squads.
Josh Hawley Moves To Ban Abortion Pills
His push relies on dubious data about the pills' safety.
Will the War in Iran Crash the Global Economy?
Plus: Kristi Noem is fired as DHS secretary, a listener asks about libertarian drug use, and new polling reveals Americans distrust AI and each other.
Killing Drug Lords Won't End Mexico's Cartels. Ending the Drug War Might.
The death of El Mencho shows why decades of prohibition enforcement have only strengthened cartels.
3 Reasons Why Trump's Math on Drug Boat Bombings Doesn't Add Up
The president claims that thousands of American lives are saved every time the government blows up a suspected drug boat.
Civil Libertarians Left and Right Unite To Oppose Disarming Cannabis Consumers
A Supreme Court case illustrates the potential for trans-partisan alliances between critics of gun control and critics of the war on drugs.
An Iowa Pot User Serving 4 Years for Gun Possession Gets Another Chance To Challenge His Prosecution
Alexander Ledvina was convicted of violating a federal law at the center of a Second Amendment case that the Supreme Court is considering.
SCOTUS Seems Skeptical of the Federal Ban on Gun Possession by Cannabis Consumers
Most of the justices seemed unsatisfied by the Trump administration's argument that the law is constitutional as applied to a Texas marijuana user.
The ACLU, Long Leery of the Second Amendment, Joins the NRA in Urging SCOTUS To Uphold Pot Users' Gun Rights
"We see this as an important civil liberties issue," says an ACLU lawyer.
5 Reasons To Doubt Trump's Boast About Bringing Down Fentanyl Smuggling
A drop in seizures doesn't necessarily mean a decline in the supply.
Police Drug Tests Are Notoriously Unreliable. They Got This Man Wrongly Charged With Trafficking Fentanyl.
Roughly 30,000 people every year may be getting wrongfully arrested because of unreliable field drug tests, according to one estimate.
FDA Commissioner Says 'Everything Should Be Over the Counter.' Don't Count on Big Pharma To Lead the Way.
A system that allows drug makers to profit from restricted access will never liberalize on its own—and patients will continue to bear the cost.
The Heavy Pot Taxes Favored by The New York Times Would Undermine Legalization
The newspaper’s plan to address marijuana abuse would compound the disadvantages that state-licensed suppliers face in competing with the black market.
The NRA and NORML Unite To Oppose the Federal Gun Ban for Marijuana Users
Drug policy reformers and Second Amendment advocates team up in a case before the Supreme Court.
Trump Administration Insists Blowing Up Boats Is Not 'Hostilities'
The legal rationale for bombing suspected drug boats in the Caribbean doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
Supreme Court to Decide Firearms Ban for Marijuana Users
NRA Amicus Brief Argues that Ban Fails Bruen Test
Disarming Millions of Americans Simply Because They Use Marijuana Is Unconstitutional, a SCOTUS Brief Says
The Liberty Justice Center is urging the Supreme Court to uphold a 5th Circuit decision rejecting the claim that cannabis consumers have no Second Amendment rights.
