Trump and Trial Lawyers Target Drug Companies Over Opioid Addiction
Making drug-company shareholders foot the bill for a public health crisis is flaky and counterproductive.
Making drug-company shareholders foot the bill for a public health crisis is flaky and counterproductive.
Our top federal law enforcement officer has no idea what real pain is really like-or what doctors do to manage it.
The current regime makes it hard for licensed cannabusinesses to compete with the black market.
El Paso Democrat, trying to change Texas from red to blue, talks about guns, weed, and how we've already got "record safety and security on our border"
The president has never encountered a problem he can't imagine solving with violence.
There's little discussion of the war on drugs at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Howard Wooldridge wants to change that.
The Drug Policy Alliance's Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno talks about her new book.
It's all a matter of the suddenly important "security clearance."
Restricted distribution is a barrier to generic competition.
The attorney general does not seem to understand how the drive to minimize opioid use hurts innocent people.
Lawmakers are considering long-overdue civil asset forfeiture reform, and law enforcement leaders aren't happy.
People applauded when government shut down the drug website Silk Road. But online drug sales increased.
The interference seems inconsistent with the president's support for cannabis as a medicine.
"No reliable evidence to support the use of kratom as a treatment for opioid use disorder and significant safety issues exist."
Paternalistic nudging in action
The attorney general thinks people should suffer needlessly, just like John Kelly.
Billy Williams wants to work with state marijuana regulators to address his concerns about "overproduction and diversion."
Sessions: "We think a lot of this is starting with marijuana and other drugs, too."
When initial prescriptions are too short, refills are more likely.
Making popular things illegal rarely diminishes their use.
They will be privately funded and operated by nonprofits.
Doubling down on a drug war that has failed for 40 years.
Governments have gone to great effort to keep the sources and methods of their death penalty regimes secret.
The Trade offers access to cartels, addicts, and cops alike.
Next week's budget showdown will include a fight over an amendment prohibiting the DOJ from preventing states from legalizing medical marijuana.
Federal pot prohibition breeds state socialism.
Retroactivity is a powerful tool we don't use often enough.
The opioid crisis is starting to drive people crazy.
D.C.'s marijuana gift economy shows that markets exist whether we want them to or not.
"Most Drug-Free Zone laws were established decades ago but have not been reformed despite evidence they're arbitrary and often unnecessarily broad."
The facts don't add up in re-enactment of famous LSD death of Frank Olson.
What the 2nd Circuit's opinion in U.S. v. Tigano reveals about the state of our criminal justice system
A survey by an anti-marijuana group finds that only 16 percent of Americans support the current federal policy.
A new bill introduced by state lawmakers would require a criminal conviction for the government to keep someone's property.
The city's new district attorney also supports the idea.
It's time we unleashed non-physicians to help opioid addicts.
Eight out of 13 have indicated that Jeff Session's marijuana memo won't affect their prosecutorial decisions.
How patients feel on psilocybin has a huge impact on how they feel weeks and possibly months later.
Today the governor signed a bill that eliminates penalties for possession and home cultivation.
While the risk of "opioid misuse" increased with the duration of the prescription, the overall rate was low.
The federal "shutdown" doesn't lead to anarchy. It won't even lead to less government spending.
People who want to keep the drug czar's office running can't come up with a good reason why.
"DEA's use of proceeds acquired through civil asset forfeiture to expand marijuana enforcement makes the already unacceptable practice even worse."
Arrested by the FBI, the deputy will be suspended without pay during the criminal case.
The 18th Amendment was ratified, extending an existing ban on liquor passed during World War I.