Pot Shots
Governmental resistance to medical marijuana represents a triumph of ideology over science.
War on Drugs
Pot of Trouble
Grow marijuana for medical use in California, and you can get off. Do it in Oklahoma, and you can get 93 years.
Prescription: Drugs
When California and Arizona overwhelmingly passed initiatives allowing the medical use of marijuana, drug warriors were apoplectic. What do these measures mean?
No Relief in Sight
Torture, despair, agony, and death are the symptoms of "opiophobia," a well-documented medical syndrome fed by fear, superstition, and the war on drugs. Doctors suffer the syndrome. Patients suffer the consequences.
The Reason of the Clerks
Believe it or not, federal bureaucrats can be the taxpayers' best friends.
Smoke Alarm
This weed will make you stupid, unemployable, and lethargic. Now it's pot. It used to be tobacco.
Drugs: Club Medicine
Support for medical marijuana is growing, but many patients are not waiting for a change in policy.
Alcohol: Getting Wetter?
There are signs of a healthy shift away from hostility toward alcohol in the United States.
That "Can't Do" Spirit
Why owning your own business is no longer a recipe for independence.
Drugs: Mock Debate
A DEA manual on how to argue against legalization shows lack of imagination.
"All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry
Dave Barry on laughing at Very Big Government
