War on Drugs

Policy

"The Doctor Wasn't Cruel Enough"

How one physician escaped the panic over prescription drugs

Maia Szalavitz | 6.2.2006 4:43 PM

Politics

Sleepwalking Into History, Kennedy Style

How Patrick Kennedy's dangerous driving became Ambien's fault

John Tabin | 5.15.2006 9:50 AM

Policy

Blow for Injustice

The scandal of Tulia is the scandal of the war on drugs.

Jacob Sullum | 5.5.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Pill Penalty Puzzle

Should Rush Limbaugh be grateful he didn't get 25 years?

Jacob Sullum | 5.3.2006 3:23 PM

Policy

Speed Misreading

Meth survey on crack

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

Government Goons Murder Puppies!

The drug war goes to the dogs.

Radley Balko | 4.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Blow in the Wind

Cocaine interdiction fiction.

Jacob Sullum | 4.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Artifact: Drug Freak Show

Jacob Sullum | 3.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Making a Meth of the PATRIOT Act

Legislative mission creep will turn runny noses and lobster fishing into terrorist acts

John Berlau | 2.23.2006 3:15 PM

Politics

Down From the High

Do Bush's drug warriors have a time machine?

Jacob Sullum | 2.8.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

The Crimes of Pot Justice

When marijuana arrests might be death sentences.

Brian Doherty | 2.6.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

America's Criminal Immigration Policy

How U.S. law punishes hard work.

Jesse DeConto | 2.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

That Chemo Cachet

Medical marijuana and kids.

Jacob Sullum | 1.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Poppy Flop

The drug war's high yields.

Jacob Sullum | 12.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

The Looming Immigration War

Tancredo for president, and other battles

Jeff Taylor | 11.28.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Ice, Ice Baby

Infant speed freaks?

Jacob Sullum | 11.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Does Pot Lead to Suicide for Supreme Court Justices?

Vague Commerce Clause precedents give free rein to personal preferences.

Jacob Sullum | 10.7.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

The End of Physician Assisted Suicide?

What the Supreme Court's pot case means for the right to end your life

Ronald Bailey | 10.5.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Honest Agents

Narcs on the Web.

Daniel Koffler | 10.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

In Defense of Happy Pills

Why talk to a shrink if Prozac or Zoloft will do the trick?

Maia Szalavitz | 10.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Prostituting the Constitution

An adult entertainment magnate takes on foreign aid prudery

Kerry Howley | 8.16.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

There Is No Joy in Juiceville. Why Not?

Nick Gillespie | 8.11.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Data: Pot Bust

Jacob Sullum | 8.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Locking Up Life-Saving Drugs

Prescription laws make us sicker and poorer.

Kerry Howley | 8.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Editor's Note: Medical Marijuana Madness

Nick Gillespie | 8.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Self-Medicating in Burma

Pharmaceutical freedom in an outpost of tyranny.

Kerry Howley | 8.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

The Search for Real Absinthe

Like Tinkerbell, the Green Fairy lives only if we believe in her.

Jacob Sullum | 8.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Converts for CAFTA?

Bush sells free trade among the unbelievers

Jeff Taylor | 7.18.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Is Janice Rogers Brown Really Walter Mondale?

To confirm their judge, Republicans abandoned their ideas

Jonathan Rauch | 7.7.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Heresy on the Right

Conservatives and the drug war.

Jacob Sullum | 7.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

A Heap of Precedents

Slippery slopes, stare decisis, and popular opinion

Jonathan Rauch | 7.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

No Clause for Celebration

Flush that commerce, it's the feds!

Jacob Sullum | 6.10.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Lying: The Government's Drug

How Raich helps us delude ourselves

Matt Welch | 6.8.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

What were those justices smoking?

The medical marijuana ruling is legally and morally flawed.

Nick Gillespie | 6.7.2005 12:12 AM

Politics

In Defense of Steroids

Jose Canseco's surprisingly sensible case for juice.

Aaron Steinberg | 6.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Legalize Now!

War-weary Colombia--and its Conservative Party--consider ending the drug war.

Toby Muse | 6.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Psychedelic Revival

Research on forbidden drugs.

Jacob Sullum | 6.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

The Poison in the Pill

Nick Gillespie | 5.17.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

The Other Insurrections

People power south of the border

Jesse Walker | 5.11.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Injustice is Blind

Federal sentencing in flux.

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Advertising Dissent

Drug warriors back down.

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Psychedelic Tea

Drugs and religious freedom

Jacob Sullum | 3.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Disappearing Docs

DEA painkiller flip-flop

Jacob Sullum | 2.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Look Back in Failure

Colin Powell, we knew ye too well

Brian Doherty | 1.19.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Medicinal Grass

Petitioning for pot.

Jacob Sullum | 1.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Speed Tracers

Sudafed clampdown

Jacob Sullum | 1.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Trust Busters

A pain doctor's drug trafficking conviction sets a chilling precedent

Jacob Sullum | 12.17.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

George Bush vs. Barry Bonds

The government's effective smear campaign against baseball's best player

Matt Welch | 12.8.2004 12:00 AM