Drugs

Policy

Recipe for a Life Sentence: Mix Two Kinds of Prohibitionist Idiocy

Mix hash brownies with two kinds of prohibitionist idiocy.

Jacob Sullum | 5.26.2014 1:30 PM

Policy

Free Hemp From Stupid Restrictions

Kentucky's lawsuit against the DEA may point the way to change.

Baylen Linnekin | 5.24.2014 8:00 AM

War on Drugs

Missing Your Latest Order From That Online Pharmacy? Blame the FDA (And Maybe Interpol)

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.23.2014 3:23 PM

Politics

Where the War on Pot Will Go to Die

Nick Gillespie | 5.23.2014 11:24 AM

Policy

How to Make Hash Brownies (Into a Life Sentence)

Jacob Sullum | 5.23.2014 11:00 AM

Marijuana

Uruguay Understands You Can't Tax Legal Weed If You Want to Undercut Black Market

Ed Krayewski | 5.23.2014 8:14 AM

Policy

Another Study That Does Not Show Legalizing Pot Boosts Traffic Fatalities

Jacob Sullum | 5.22.2014 10:40 AM

War on Drugs

FBI Director Scolded for 'Making Light' of Marijuana Use

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.21.2014 5:10 PM

Politics

Nick Gillespie on CNN's Erin Burnett Outfront, Talking Life Sentence for Hash Brownies

Nick Gillespie | 5.21.2014 4:47 PM

Civil Liberties

Feds to Raided Smoke Shop Owner: Say Your Sister Assaulted a Federal Agent or No Bail For You

Brian Doherty | 5.21.2014 3:07 PM

Civil Liberties

Another Day, Another Cop Shoots a Dog

It's time to teach the police some new tricks.

A. Barton Hinkle | 5.21.2014 10:30 AM

Policy

'I Have to Hire a Great Work Force to Compete With Those Cyber Criminals and Some of Those Kids Want to Smoke Weed on the Way to the Interview'

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.21.2014 10:06 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Jeffrey Miron on the Stimulus, John Stossel on Good News, Deroy Murdock on the V.A., Mary Katharine Ham on the CIA & Life Sentences for Teen Hash Dealers, Plus Call-in Aftershow and More!

Matt Welch | 5.20.2014 8:37 PM

Policy

How You Can Get Life for Hash Brownies in Texas

Jacob Sullum | 5.20.2014 7:43 PM

Politics

Thomas Massie Eats Hemp on Live TV

Matt Welch | 5.20.2014 10:22 AM

Policy

The Deadhead Who Got Life for Mailing LSD—and Five Other Leading Candidates for Clemency

Jacob Sullum | 5.19.2014 4:05 PM

Policy

Marco Rubio Stonewalls on His Pot Smoking—for the Children

Jacob Sullum | 5.19.2014 1:58 PM

Politics

Newark's New Mayor Wants to Decriminalize All Drugs…Maybe

Ras Baraka's comments on the drug war.

Jesse Walker | 5.19.2014 10:33 AM

Marijuana

The Feds Say: Don't You Dare Call Marijuana Medicine

The Justice Department prosecutes medical marijuana patients while tolerating commercial cannabis.

Jacob Sullum | 5.19.2014 8:30 AM

Civil Liberties

Another Drug Bust Gone Bad

Cops can't get their story straight in the killing of Eugene Mallory.

Zach Weissmueller | 5.18.2014 12:00 PM

Policy

Uruguay's Buttoned-Down Version of Marijuana Legalization

Jacob Sullum | 5.16.2014 5:54 PM

Civil Liberties

Pregnant Women Increasingly Face Criminal Prosecution for Positive Drug Tests

Hello fetus, goodbye civil liberties

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.16.2014 1:30 PM

War on Drugs

DEA Chief Dials Back Drug War Bluster After Talk With Holder

The Huffington Post | 5.16.2014 12:25 PM

Policy

If Pot Is Legal in Washington, Why Do These Medical Marijuana Users Face At Least 10 Years in Prison?

Jacob Sullum | 5.16.2014 11:12 AM

Politics

Ron Paul on GOP Fear of Pot Legalization: 'They still perceive that it's a risky political position to take'

Matt Welch | 5.16.2014 8:33 AM

Policy

There's a Food Truck That Hawks Legal Cannabis-Laced Edibles

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.15.2014 3:31 PM

Politics

Rick Santorum: Libertarian Ideas 'don't work in practice'

Matt Welch | 5.15.2014 8:57 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Red Meat Wednesday, With Ron Paul, Robert Bryce, Jedediah Bila, Tom Shillue…and Rick Santorum!

Matt Welch | 5.14.2014 8:17 PM

Policy

What Does Denver Have Against Getting Stoned and Listening to Music?

Jacob Sullum | 5.14.2014 5:09 PM

Civil Liberties

Don't Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em

Charles Oliver | 5.14.2014 6:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Brickbat: Don't Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em

Charles Oliver | 5.14.2014 6:00 AM

War on Drugs

U.S. Customs Seize Kentucky-Bound Hemp Seeds

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.13.2014 10:45 AM

Culture

Responses to Reason's Gamer Poll: Is Personal Choice Really a Libertarian Thing?

Scott Shackford | 5.12.2014 5:30 PM

Marijuana

The Medical Marijuana Debate in Minnesota Continues

Paul Feine | 5.12.2014 4:25 PM

Uruguay

Uruguay's President Lectures Americans on Cigarettes and Becoming a Bilingual Country

Recently signed a bill into law that legalized and regulated marijuana

Ed Krayewski | 5.12.2014 1:50 PM

Policy

Anti-Pot Group Trumpets Obama's 2011 Comment on Drug Legalization As 'Huge News!'

Jacob Sullum | 5.12.2014 11:47 AM

Policy

The Need for Speed and the Politics of Panics

The results of meth hysteria have been uglier than a tweeker in an anti-drug ad.

Jacob Sullum | 5.12.2014 8:30 AM

Politics

It's Not Racist to Hate the Government

Democrats and progressives are flat-out wrong about libertarians.

Nick Gillespie | 5.11.2014 3:30 PM

Policy

Washington's Marijuana Lottery: Good Odds, Big Cash Prizes

Jacob Sullum | 5.9.2014 4:52 PM

Politics

Happy 90th Birthday! Feds Send WWII Vet to Prison for Drug Smuggling

Zenon Evans | 5.9.2014 4:00 PM

Policy

Will Congress Keep D.C. From Decriminalizing Marijuana?

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.9.2014 3:25 PM

Policy

NYPD Busts Lots of Pot Smokers Despite Drop in Street Stops

Jacob Sullum | 5.9.2014 2:25 PM

Policy

School Drug Testing All Its Students Censors 'Seditious' Dissent

Zenon Evans | 5.9.2014 1:25 PM

Marijuana

The Long Road to Dismantling Prohibition

Ed Krayewski | 5.9.2014 12:59 PM

Policy

The Politics of Meth Panics

Jacob Sullum | 5.9.2014 10:35 AM

Civil Liberties

Brickbat: How Appealing

Charles Oliver | 5.9.2014 6:00 AM

Culture

Is Reason's New Video Game Cover Sexist?

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.8.2014 7:22 PM