The 'Whack Jobs' Were Right
Plus: A listener asks the editors to weigh in on a hypothetical executive order to establish an American Climate Corps.
Plus: A listener asks the editors to weigh in on a hypothetical executive order to establish an American Climate Corps.
The culprit is prohibition, not lax border policing.
The life-saving drug stops opioid overdoses as they happen, restoring breathing and preventing death. Why did it take so long for the FDA to expand its use?
The agency's action ignores the government's own role in creating a black market in the first place.
A North Carolina detective may have inhaled a significant amount during a drug bust.
Less punitive responses to drug addiction are good, but what about people still stuck in federal prison?
A RAND report highlights the importance of new synthesis methods, cheap international shipping, and online distribution aided by privacy-protecting technologies.
Dyron Rashad Primus is serving 15 years for synthetic marijuana charges. That's absurd.
On the upside, agency promises to review over-the-counter drug rules, approve more new drugs, and liberate French dressing.
New data show the share of opioid-related fatalities involving fentanyl analogs is rising.
Journalists continue to claim that the Causeway Cannibal was under the influence of synthetic cathinones.
Plodding prohibitionists try once again to ban drugs that do not exist yet.
The SCOTUS nominee plumbs the peculiarities of prohibition in cases involving imitation pot and medical marijuana.
A 19-year-old man stabbed two strangers to death and tried to eat the face of one of them, once again provoking warnings about the "zombie drug" flakka.
Food is exempted, but what about catnip and flowers?
Contrary to overheated press reports, they were under the influence of nothing but religious fanaticism.
Impossibly potent marijuana edibles, formaldehyde in e-cigarettes, pills of war, MDMA disguised as Halloween candy, and superhuman flakka zombies.
Super-potent pot, formaldehyde in e-cigarettes, the supersoldier pill, MDMA in trick-or-treat bags, and "$5 insanity"
Wisconsin becomes the fourth state to ban kratom, which is closer to caffeine than opium.
Captagon captures the imaginations of yellow journalists.
Flakka-fortified humans reportedly are stronger than Vulcans.
Five hallmarks of anti-drug hysteria
If Congress insists on telling adults what substances they may not consume, the least it can do is specify the substances.
Flakka is the worst drug ever yet somehow also the "hot new drug of choice."
How could a drug Rudy Eugene never took make him chew off someone's face?
A deluge of drunks, deadly synthetics, ecigs and smoking, heroin hype, and THC-tainted treats.
A Rogue Prosecutor Makes the Drug War Personal
Mario gives up mushrooms for Molly
Nothing beats the real stuff