There are stories of marijuana business owners showing up at California's tax agency offices with trash bags filled with cash, even though the agency generally doesn't allow cash payments.
The discussion during last night's debate grossly exaggerated the role of prescription pain pills in opioid-related deaths.
California is turning to tech solution to clear bureaucratic hurdles.
Naama Issachar, a 26-year-old woman who was arrested while catching a connecting flight in Moscow, was charged with drug smuggling.
Stossel's full interview with Tulsi Gabbard covering war, drugs, free healthcare, free college, the minimum wage, and more.
Vague lung disease warnings tar harm-reducing e-cigarettes while obscuring the role of black-market cannabis products.
“As though the only way that we can relate with other countries in the world is by bombing them.”
A comparison with other states finds "no statistically significant long-term effects" on violent or property crime rates.
Tulsi Gabbard and Stossel discuss war, drug legalization, and government spending.
Mayo Clinic researchers say tissue samples from 17 patients were consistent with toxic exposure rather than lipoid pneumonia.
Allie Nelson is the latest plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging Chicago's vehicle impound racket, which seizes cars from the innocent and guilty alike.
A safe place meant to help prevent overdose deaths is not the same as a crackhouse.
Federal drug prohibition played a big role in creating the opioid crisis. Unfortunately, the government is also slowing the spread of one possible solution to it.
Marion County, Indiana, joins a growing list of jurisdictions where prosecutors are refusing to file charges for petty marijuana offenses.
It's a historic moment in Congress, but Senate support remains uncertain.
This vote is "a hopeful sign that the harmful policies of marijuana prohibition will soon be a relic of the past."
The SAFE Banking Act will be the first stand-alone marijuana legalization bill to reach the floor of the U.S. House.
Friday A/V Club: A prank from the final days of the Soviet Union
Fines continued to pile up for almost a decade.
Ontario has lost millions trying to sell cannabis.
His bill would authorize felony prosecutions of drivers with THC in their blood even when they are not impaired.
Nixon's pursuit of draft-dodgers and pot smokers fueled the communist ideology it was trying to contain
The black market still dominates. And more enforcement and fines aren’t going to fix it.
Bad science and panics by those who want to escalate the opioid drug war.
Policies aimed at curtailing the harms caused by substance abuse may instead magnify those harms.
Among patients in Illinois and Wisconsin, 83 percent admitted vaping cannabis extracts bought on the black market.
Next week, the Berkeley city council will consider a measure to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms and other "entheogenic" substances.
Kerri Owens' firing from her job at Allen High School may well be a First Amendment violation.
Although the warrant was based on a heroin purchase that never happened, Art Acevedo says, there was other, unmentioned evidence that would have justified a search.
The science is unsettled, and a complete evaluation has to consider benefits as well as risks.
Former DEA special agent Chad Scott has been convicted of perjury, obstruction of justice, and falsifying government records.
A RAND report highlights the importance of new synthesis methods, cheap international shipping, and online distribution aided by privacy-protecting technologies.
The Houston Police Officers' Union is no longer covering the legal fees of Gerald Goines, who faces two murder charges.
Blaming opioid makers for the "opioid crisis" may be emotionally satisfying, but the reality is more complicated.
Can legal sales of prescription opioids constitute a nuisance? Two decisions, based on nearly identical statutes, reach diametrically opposed conclusions.
Government incompetence made an innocent man spend months in jail and lose both of his jobs.
While the narcotics officers charged with murder and evidence tampering were bad eggs, Art Acevedo says, their colleagues acted "in good faith."
The agency takes one small, mostly symbolic step for kind bud.
Gerald Goines justified the raid, which killed a middle-aged couple, based on a heroin purchase that apparently never happened.
Nonmedical use of prescription analgesics did not become more common, but it did become more dangerous.
Sanders' plan takes aim at every part of the justice system, including typical Sanders targets like private prisons and corporate "profiteers."
Plus: Marvel Comics cancels Art Spiegelman, prohibition still doesn't work, and more
A new RAND report puts spending on marijuana, heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine at $146 billion in 2016.
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