War on Drugs
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
Drug Legalization and the News Media
The Eighth International Conference on Drug Policy Reform, Washington, D.C. (1994)
The New, New World: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez
Richard Rodriguez on culture and assimilation
Revolutionary Appeals
Chiapas tells the old story of peasant Indians used by urban intellecturals.
Mind Alteration: An Interview with Ethan Nadelmann
Drug-policy scholar Ethan Nadelmann on turning people against drug prohibition
A Free Market in Drugs
Seventh International Conference on Drug Policy Reform, Washington, D.C.
America's Economic Refugees
In an overregulated economy, the best preparation for survival may be a Third World education
