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.
The agency's low points, from working with child sex abusers to enabling drug trafficking
The bill would permanently schedule fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I drugs—and impede therapeutic research.
Many people depicted in a supposedly "groundbreaking" book on psychedelics and religion are now speaking out against it.
Researchers gave psilocybin to two dozen religious clergy. Was it guided by science, religion, or some awkward combination?
After promising to stop the flow of drugs during his first term, the president blames foreign officials for his failure.
The president can cite meaningless "adequate steps," ambiguous drug seizure numbers, and a decline in drug deaths that began before he took office.
Pam Bondi cracked down on "pill mills" in Florida. The result was increased consumption of black-market alternatives.
Drug warriors deserve blame rather than credit for their role in recent overdose trends.
Local news reports detail how Polk County, Minnesota, charges drivers and petty offenders with drug-free zone violations like no other county in the state.
Two new meta-analyses make a case for individualistic approaches to puberty blockers and hormone treatments, driven by patients, parents, and doctors rather than the state.
In this POV haunted house film from the Ocean's 11 director, the camera plays the ghost.
Fulfilling a campaign promise to libertarians and the bitcoin community, the Silk Road founder's life sentence without parole is now over.
The evangelical Christian argues that drug legalization is the conservative thing to do.
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.
Matthew Livelsberger’s alleged manifesto highlights an infamous U.S. drug raid.
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.
How cops, politicians, and bureaucrats tried to dodge responsibility in 2024
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.
Pharmacological Perennialism crossed paths with the Catholic Church at a previously unreported "holy meeting."
Using force to make people give up drugs is both dangerous and morally wrong.
While a federal crackdown reduced opioid prescriptions, the number of opioid-related deaths soared.
Brandy Moore, who stopped using meth midway through her pregnancy, was charged with "aggravated domestic violence" because she decided not to have an abortion.
One 2022 study found that 91 percent of women given fentanyl in their epidurals later tested positive for the drug.
If stopping drugs from entering the country is as straightforward as the president-elect implies, why didn't he do it during his first term?
Since the president-elect refuses to admit that levies on imports are taxes paid by Americans, he sees no downside to raising them.
Though he commuted some drug offenders' sentences, Biden never delivered on the rest of his drug reform promises.
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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 attorney general nominee's record as a drug warrior epitomizes the predictably perverse consequences of prohibition.
The problems with these test kits are well-known, and there have been hundreds of documented cases of wrongful arrests based on them.
The proposal brings to mind the classic "bootleggers and Baptists" theory in which both moralists and competitors oppose a substance.
Trump's pick for attorney general is manifestly unqualified for the job, even without considering the salacious details of the ethics charges against him.
The nominee for attorney general passes the Trump loyalty test, but he lacks relevant experience and has repeatedly demonstrated poor judgment.
Many seriously ill people die waiting for the FDA to approve drugs that regulators in other advanced countries have already approved.
The DEA's attempts to enforce the nation's drug laws have been a resounding failure by pretty much any measure.
Ksenia Karelina was prosecuted as part of a larger “treason” crackdown that is unprecedented even by Russia’s illiberal standards.
Making DOI and DOC Schedule I drugs would interfere with psychiatric research.
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.
Trippy author Ernesto Londoño points out that supposedly ancient psychedelic rituals don't always lead to great outcomes.
Despite a few bright spots, the disappointing returns suggest that the road to pharmacological freedom will be rockier than activists hoped.
