Illicit fentanyl and heroin accounted for the vast majority of opioid-related deaths, while only 1 percent of cases involved drugs for which people had prescriptions.
Gutting Section 230 would make it harder to track drug deals, not easier.
Deaths continue to rise, thanks to increased use of less-safe black market pain pills.
Reason's Jacob Sullum and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson debate eliminating laws that prohibit the use and sale of narcotics.
There are stories of marijuana business owners showing up at California's tax agency offices with trash bags filled with cash, even though the agency generally doesn't allow cash payments.
The discussion during last night's debate grossly exaggerated the role of prescription pain pills in opioid-related deaths.
California is turning to tech solution to clear bureaucratic hurdles.
Naama Issachar, a 26-year-old woman who was arrested while catching a connecting flight in Moscow, was charged with drug smuggling.
Vague lung disease warnings tar harm-reducing e-cigarettes while obscuring the role of black-market cannabis products.
A comparison with other states finds "no statistically significant long-term effects" on violent or property crime rates.
Mayo Clinic researchers say tissue samples from 17 patients were consistent with toxic exposure rather than lipoid pneumonia.
A safe place meant to help prevent overdose deaths is not the same as a crackhouse.
Federal drug prohibition played a big role in creating the opioid crisis. Unfortunately, the government is also slowing the spread of one possible solution to it.
Marion County, Indiana, joins a growing list of jurisdictions where prosecutors are refusing to file charges for petty marijuana offenses.
It's a historic moment in Congress, but Senate support remains uncertain.
This vote is "a hopeful sign that the harmful policies of marijuana prohibition will soon be a relic of the past."
The SAFE Banking Act will be the first stand-alone marijuana legalization bill to reach the floor of the U.S. House.
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Fines continued to pile up for almost a decade.
Ontario has lost millions trying to sell cannabis.
His bill would authorize felony prosecutions of drivers with THC in their blood even when they are not impaired.
Nixon's pursuit of draft-dodgers and pot smokers fueled the communist ideology it was trying to contain
The black market still dominates. And more enforcement and fines aren’t going to fix it.
Bad science and panics by those who want to escalate the opioid drug war.
Policies aimed at curtailing the harms caused by substance abuse may instead magnify those harms.
Among patients in Illinois and Wisconsin, 83 percent admitted vaping cannabis extracts bought on the black market.
Next week, the Berkeley city council will consider a measure to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms and other "entheogenic" substances.
Kerri Owens' firing from her job at Allen High School may well be a First Amendment violation.
Although the warrant was based on a heroin purchase that never happened, Art Acevedo says, there was other, unmentioned evidence that would have justified a search.
The science is unsettled, and a complete evaluation has to consider benefits as well as risks.
A RAND report highlights the importance of new synthesis methods, cheap international shipping, and online distribution aided by privacy-protecting technologies.
Blaming opioid makers for the "opioid crisis" may be emotionally satisfying, but the reality is more complicated.
Can legal sales of prescription opioids constitute a nuisance? Two decisions, based on nearly identical statutes, reach diametrically opposed conclusions.
Government incompetence made an innocent man spend months in jail and lose both of his jobs.
Nonmedical use of prescription analgesics did not become more common, but it did become more dangerous.
Sanders' plan takes aim at every part of the justice system, including typical Sanders targets like private prisons and corporate "profiteers."
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A new RAND report puts spending on marijuana, heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine at $146 billion in 2016.
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A drug bust gone wrong in a Pittsburgh suburb leaves the suspect dead, an agent injured, and kids and shoppers terrified.
It would allow adults, age 21 and older, to visit official service centers on the recommendation of a medical professional
In a speech to police, Barr called for citizens to shut up and do what officers tell them to.
The Illinois boy now suffers from severe PTSD and will walk with a limp for the rest of his life, the lawsuit says.
Obama denied him clemency. Will Trump set him free?
The bipartisan bill says "using drugs or illegal substances to cause a person to engage in a commercial sex act" or in any kind of labor counts as human trafficking.
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