"For every dollar gained in tax revenue," the Centennial Institute claims, "Coloradans spent approximately $4.50 to mitigate the effects of legalization."
Numerous motorists say rogue cops in a small Northern California town ripped them off during bogus traffic stops.
The crackdown on analgesics continues to push nonmedical users toward deadlier alternatives.
Legislators in Trenton plan to address past pot convictions while preventing future ones.
It is unconstitutional for the government to discriminate against organizations based on their viewpoint.
Roughly 800 federal inmates are sentenced to life under an obscure sentencing enhancement that lawmakers in Congress might soon vote to reduce.
The Texas senator is now allied with longtime opponents of reform in resisting the FIRST STEP Act.
But losing taught libertarians how to win
Safe injection facilities and other harm reduction measures are the answer.
That seems like a bit of an overreaction.
The modest changes in the FIRST STEP Act are no threat to public safety.
After years of opposition, Kennedy has finally jumped on the pro-weed legalization bandwagon.
Assessing the import of presidential tantrums, media hyperbole, military complaints, and the near-arrival of federal sentencing reform
The TSA's policy is to report any weed they find to local law enforcement. But they'll have to notice it first.
The physician group says widespread "misapplication" of the guidelines is hurting patients.
A new bill in the Texas legislature would repeal criminal penalties for possessing less than an ounce of marijuana.
The Detroit Free Press columnist seems oblivious to black-market competition.
LSD, psilocybin, and other hallucinogenics are gaining new acceptance as serious medicine. But what if you want to do them just for fun, asks Jacob Sullum.
Chris Christie is a notorious pot prohibitionist.
Democratic control of the House, the passage of marijuana legalization referenda in three states, and the removal of Jeff Sessions presage a brighter future for legalized pot.
Two-thirds of the states have now legalized marijuana for medical or recreational use.
Amash and Massie will return. Michigan will have legal weed. No Nevada brothels will be banned. And more...
The initiative's success is especially striking given the Mormon church's opposition.
It is the first state in the Midwest to allow nonmedical use.
The initiative lost by a big margin in a state that approved medical use two years ago.
Patients with doctors' recommendations will be allowed to grow their own medicine or buy it from state-licensed dispensaries.
Michael Pollan's new book portrays Timothy Leary as a reckless self-promoter, but Leary asked the right questions about psychedelics.
A Colorado jury rejected claims that an indoor cultivation facility had injured the owners of a neighboring horse ranch.
Buying and consuming CBD is legal in California, but selling food or drinks infused with CBD isn't.
The court says the government may not prosecute people for possession, use, or home cultivation of marijuana.
District Attorney finds too many questionable stop and search practices in campaign of harassment aimed at Burners.
It had been the only state to ban non-THC, non-CBD beer from being sold.
Under Tennessee's harsh drug-free school zone laws, Bryant received a 17-year sentence for a first-time drug offense.
One year after their final sessions, three-quarters of the subjects no longer qualified for a diagnosis.
Ballot initiatives in Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, and Utah will give voters a chance to loosen their cannabis laws.
The number of past-month users was up last year from 2016, but it was still lower than in several previous years.
A GOP candidate claims she's the only person in the race who opposes a life-saving opioid policy, but her Democratic opponent is against it as well.
The designation could be a prelude to approving the forbidden psychedelic drug as a medicine.
During a forum at a high school, a Rhode Island candidate for attorney general compared the term to an extreme racial epithet and called it "a curse to my people."
"A toxic combination of harsh mandatory minimum sentencing, race, poverty and fatally arbitrary enforcement."
Our northern neighbors are handling the transition from prohibition to regulation better than the U.S. in several ways.
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