The Case for Legalizing Weed
Adults should have the right to make their own decisions about what to put in their own bodies.
Adults should have the right to make their own decisions about what to put in their own bodies.
The relationship between cannabis consumption and psychiatric diagnoses is more subtle and ambiguous than the anti-pot polemicist implies.
Nearly a quarter of the U.S. population lives in a jurisdiction where recreational use is legal.
Gov. Jay Inslee, who intends to run for president, made the announcement on Friday.
The market's performance is falling far short of predictions.
Charles may be the first person to benefit from the sentencing reductions in the FIRST STEP Act.
"Must've taken some real investigative prowess to pull this off."
Democratic socialists prioritize economics first.
The officer who cooked up the story adds that he collects "a lot of great (and incredibly raw) intelligence" by reading comment threads.
2018 was a mixed bag, but that means there was still a lot of good news.
Cops supposedly smelled 25 grams of pot inside a plastic container inside a safe inside a closet 30 feet from a guy's doorstep.
The government is the villain of this story, not wealthy industrialists.
Reason's livestream with the founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), Rick Doblin.
A new Medicare prescription rule will aggravate undertreatment of pain.
Success attributed to tools like naloxone, not punitive drug wars.
On marijuana, New York's governor has lagged far behind his party's rank-and-file and the general public.
Congress should make sure the next attorney general respects states' authority to set their own marijuana policy.
The last-minute changes show how hard it is to make the criminal justice system more proportionate and discriminating.
The Office of National Drug Control Policy is required to fight marijuana legalization by any means necessary, even if it is working out well so far.
Rahm Emanuel wants pot legalization and a casino so the city can grab more taxes for its pension debts.
Trump's nominee for attorney general is apt to encourage his worst instincts on drug policy.
Tao Lin's Trip details how the author's experience with LSD, DMT, psilocybin, and more blew his mind while making him more human.
Trump's chief of staff was there to add a veneer of respectability to some of the president's worst positions.
Legalized pot is great. Taxing it to pay for public transit is not.
The lawsuit argues that the excessive penalty violated her Eighth Amendment rights. The Supreme Court is currently considering a similar case.
Jacob Sullum, Dana Rohrabacher, and Adrian Moore talk about the next steps in ending the war on drugs at Reason's 50th anniversary celebration.
A favorite prohibitionist theme is refuted by reality.
The government can't stop the flow of illegal drugs, but it can always make them more deadly.
And once again, Trump is distracted from real policy by symbolic brutality.
How an unscientific field test and the bail system stripped a Georgia grandmother of justice.
Your guide to marijuana in Michigan
A cringeworthy Fox & Friends segment
"For every dollar gained in tax revenue," the Centennial Institute claims, "Coloradans spent approximately $4.50 to mitigate the effects of legalization."
Numerous motorists say rogue cops in a small Northern California town ripped them off during bogus traffic stops.
The crackdown on analgesics continues to push nonmedical users toward deadlier alternatives.
Legislators in Trenton plan to address past pot convictions while preventing future ones.
It is unconstitutional for the government to discriminate against organizations based on their viewpoint.
Roughly 800 federal inmates are sentenced to life under an obscure sentencing enhancement that lawmakers in Congress might soon vote to reduce.
The Texas senator is now allied with longtime opponents of reform in resisting the FIRST STEP Act.
But losing taught libertarians how to win
Safe injection facilities and other harm reduction measures are the answer.
That seems like a bit of an overreaction.
The modest changes in the FIRST STEP Act are no threat to public safety.
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