While the issue is far from settled, a decline in Canadian beer sales and a drop in binge drinking among college students reinforce the case for a substitution effect.
In one week alone, newly legal dispensaries made $11 million in sales.
The Illinois State Police confirms that people who try newly legal marijuana are not considered "unlawful users" of narcotics.
"This is something that we knew would be provocative," said the state's Republican governor.
The pioneering psychedelic researcher, Timothy Leary collaborator, and New Age seeker exemplified America's postwar turn to individualism.
Marijuana merchants, restaurants, and "mobile premises" can let customers partake if they get state and local approval.
“Incarceration should not even be a response to drug possession.”
The East African khat trade is thriving, even as global prohibition creeps in around the edges.
Creating a sensible legal market would drive black market vape makers out of business.
Which state do you think will be more successful at moving cannabis consumers to the legal market?
The main danger to vapers is illicit cannabis extracts of unknown provenance and composition.
The state's Cannabis Advisory Committee blames high taxes, local bans, and onerous regulations.
A judge concluded that the restrictions violate the state constitution's free speech guarantee.
Biden's reputation as a bipartisan dealmaker might be appealing in these polarized times, but his record as a policy maker is atrocious.
The government and the press focus on newfangled contraptions instead of drug-related harm.
We found a lot of things to worry about over the past 10 years.
Tessa Majors may have been on way to buy illegal pot when she was stabbed to death. But if that's true, it's an argument against prohibition, not for it.
There are no supervised injection facilities openly operating in the United States. That might change soon.
When the vice president's son was caught using illegal drugs, he escaped legal problems. We should all be so lucky.
Despite notable progress in policies regarding pot and psychedelics, the war on drugs always finds new targets.
Police Chief Art Acevedo's observations about the fallen nature of humanity are no substitute for reforms aimed at preventing such abuses.
The vast majority of opium users in China were not the desperate addicts portrayed by proponents of prohibition.
The drug wars will continue until the state gets its cut of the money.
A deadly raid based on a bogus tip and a fraudulent search warrant affidavit highlights loose police practices in Houston.
U.S. life expectancy peaked in 2014.
When the government tries to hoover up all the money earned from legalized drugs, this is what happens.
Of the 50 states, three territories, and 10 provinces that make up the United States and Canada, all but one have legalized some form of either medical or recreational cannabis.
To his credit, Biden responded by calling for the decriminalization of marijuana and for releasing marijuana prisoners.
The Justice Department says Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas were killed in an operation based on a fraudulent warrant triggered by a false report to police.
The House is simultaneously advancing bills that would legalize marijuana and ban the vast majority of vaping products.
Somewhere between 650 and 1,000 Florida inmates are serving sentences under draconian opioid trafficking laws that have since been rolled back.
Afghanistan taught us the risks of miring troops in entrenched domestic security problems.
The correlation between cannabis consumption and use of other drugs is clear, but its meaning remains controversial and probably always will.
In Louisiana, the legal medical marijuana scheme is a mess: Physicians' hands are tied by state regulators and there's not enough pot to go around for the patients who need it.
Sexually scarring children with unnecessary strip searches to prevent them from committing misdemeanors
The CDC found vitamin E acetate in all 29 samples of lung fluid it analyzed.
Sessions has spent his career fighting to maintain draconian drug sentences.
In the unlikely event that the former New York mayor wins the Democratic nomination, the 2020 election will pit a billionaire busybody against a billionaire bully.
The Fox News star talks about Donald Trump, the 2020 election, the end of politics, and why he's ready for a whole new reality.
The Golden State is still taking punitive, costly, and pointless measures to fight illegal grow operations.
Even when a technology is valid in theory, haphazard methods can lead to wrongful convictions.
The cop claimed to detect "a strong smell of fresh marijuana coming from within the house," but police did not find any.
Reason's Jacob Sullum and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson debate eliminating laws that prohibit the use and sale of narcotics.
The 10th Circuit says Adlynn and Robert Harte should be allowed to pursue three federal claims against comically inept Kansas sheriff's deputies.
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