Up Close and Personal With Philadelphia's Heroin Crisis
Journalist Christopher Moraff talks about a better way to report on drug culture in America.
Journalist Christopher Moraff talks about a better way to report on drug culture in America.
MDMA, which was banned by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1985, could be available by prescription as soon as 2021.
...if regulators don't get in the way first.
While the Silk Road founder's reputation has already been sullied by the untried accusations, the feds give up on those charges after Supreme Court declines to hear Ulbricht's appeal on his original conviction and sentencing.
Alice Marie Johnson's life sentence for a first-time drug offense was commuted by Trump. Now she's speaking out against mandatory minimums.
It's time to stop punishing people for their addictions.
Is a mom who passed drugs along to her infant via breastfeeding a real community threat?
New Jersey state Sen. Ron Rice is battling a bill to make New Jersey the 10th state in the nation with legal recreational marijuana.
The government's definition of "prompt" is a little different from everyone else's, especially when it comes to asset forfeiture.
New data show the share of opioid-related fatalities involving fentanyl analogs is rising.
Cannabis equity programs are growing in popularity, but do they actually work?
San Francisco was supposed to have sites up and running this month. It does not.
Drug war absurdity meets police recklessness.
The positives of legalizing weed would outweigh the negatives, a study found.
Police say there's evidence. His lawyer says it's a fishing expedition.
An Indiana judge just issued a blow to the state's First Church of Cannabis.
Does anyone actually call weed "shoe"?
The ninth state to legalize recreational pot
What if everybody on the Food Network was high?
Cop calls that supposedly show the trouble caused by dispensaries mostly had nothing to do with dispensaries.
Richard Nixon's battle with Timothy Leary puts today's culture wars to shame.
Licensed recreational sales are expected to begin in late August or early September.
The SITSA Act would turn the attorney general into the chief arbiter of what substances Americans can buy, sell, and put in their bodies.
A new British study shows that rescheduling hydrocodone, a powerful opiate painkiller, just forced users onto the darknet to get their fix.
The rolling lounges are one of the few options for visitors who want to use marijuana but can't find pot-friendly lodging.
Republicans in one of the most conservative states in the union gave a thumbs up to rolling back marijuana prohibition.
Roger Clark, under pseudonym "Variety Jones" and others, faces charges related to narcotics trafficking, hacking, and money laundering, but not murder-for-hire.
Chittenden County State's Attorney Sarah George will no longer prosecute misdemeanor buprenorphine cases.
Cory Gardner used confirmation holds to force a potential breakthrough on marijuana federalism. There's a lesson there.
Katherine Mangu-Ward talks about politics, culture, and Reason's next 50 years.
Commutations for people serving absurdly long sentences would be a great new way to torture the attorney general.
Trump disrupts the status quo on trade, diplomacy, North Korea, and pot.
More signs of the coming left-right convergence on marijuana legalization.
Like most people who become addicted to prescription opioids, the famous photographer had a history of substance abuse.
He has been a Democrat, a Republican, a lobbyist, and a cancer survivor. Now he wants to end the war on weed.
The president gave a hedged endorsement of a bill to exempt state-level legal weed from federal prohibition.
The anti-drug ads exaggerate the risk of addiction and falsely portray pain treatment as a highway to hell.
If it passes, this will be a major victory for both marijuana legalization and federalism.
John Hickenlooper claims letting pot store customers sample the merchandise conflicts with a ballot initiative that promised to regulate marijuana like alcohol.
Reason's Jacob Sullum and Zach Weissmueller talk about the human toll on patients and their doctors.
The Democrat-controlled Rhode Island state Senate agrees with President Donald Trump that harsher punishments are needed for drug dealers. Wrong!
When the cure for the "epidemic" proves worse than the disease, it's time to try something new.
"I figured a police officer would know what illegal drugs looked like."
Although the state recognizes cannabis as a treatment for epilepsy, it says letting your son use it is "reckless conduct."