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Biden has not delivered on his promise to decriminalize marijuana.
Moving marijuana to Schedule III, as the DEA plans to do, leaves federal pot prohibition essentially untouched.
Once again, DeSantis is a guy who claims to love freedom—until he disagrees with the choices some adults make.
The former Cheers producer talks faith, ayahuasca, and what it’ll take to bring back the blockbuster comedy.
The change from Schedule I to Schedule III is welcome, but removing it from the schedules altogether is the best option.
New red tape will result in fewer safe and effective diagnostic tests.
"We should be building a wall around the welfare state, not the United States," Nick Gillespie argued at a recent immigration debate.
Lee announced in 2021 that he was fast-tracking clemency petitions for inmates serving mandatory minimums that had since been repealed. Earlier this year, he scrapped the program with applications still pending.
I'm the DEA's poster child for prescription stimulant abuse: a 30-something adult who needs a telehealth psychiatrist and can't remember what day the garbage truck comes.
Columbia law professor David Pozen recalls the controversy provoked by early anti-drug laws and the hope inspired by subsequent legal assaults on prohibition.
San Francisco's prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of respectable parentage" as well as "the vicious and the depraved."
The CDC’s numbers show that pain treatment is not responsible for escalating drug-related deaths.
San Francisco's prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of respectable parentage" as well as "the vicious and the depraved."
According to IRS guidance, any income derived from illegal activity is taxable, and there's no statute of limitations on when they can go after you.
Courts have repeatedly ruled that delta-8 and delta-10 products are legal. So why are officers and district attorneys still raiding shops?
Dewonna Goodridge quickly discovered that Kansas civil asset forfeiture laws were stacked against her when sheriff's deputies seized her truck.
The government still blames the private sector despite its own role in creating, exacerbating, and prolonging the shortage.
If drug warriors really wanted to punish "those responsible" for the transgender activist's death, they would start by arresting themselves.
The state’s policies and practices seemed designed to strangle the legal cannabis supply.
DARE to Say No details the history of an anti-drug campaign that left an indelible mark on America.
Gerald Goines' lawyers argued that the indictment did not adequately specify the underlying felony of tampering with a government document.
Oregon lawmakers recently voted to recriminalize drugs after voters approved landmark reforms in 2020.
New York's botched recreational marijuana rollout just keeps looking worse.
In the process, the court also rejected Texas's argument that illegal migration and drug smuggling qualify as "invasion."
Just stop it. Let elite athletes honestly choose to use performance enhancements or not.
Three years after the state legalized recreational marijuana, unauthorized weed shops outnumber licensed dispensaries by 23 to 1.
Peter Moskos, criminal justice professor and former Baltimore police officer, discusses ways to reform policing and turn failing cities around on the latest Just Asking Questions podcast.
Hours before the president said "no one should be jailed" for marijuana use, his Justice Department was saying no one who uses marijuana should be allowed to own guns.
William Barr and John Walters ignore the benefits of legalization and systematically exaggerate its costs.
Mind-altering drugs have long been seen as tools for both liberation and control.
New Orleans police found rats eating marijuana the department had confiscated as part of the War on Drugs.
The admission came as the agency pushed for funding. It's a reminder that the cops should spend fewer resources seizing cannabis and more on solving serious crimes.
The far-traveling smuggler turned breeder "never gave up" on his dream of recovering neglected marijuana strains.
The judicially approved Brookline ban reflects a broader trend among progressives who should know better.
The president has not expunged marijuana records or decriminalized possession, which in any case would fall far short of the legalization that voters want.
The total appropriations package would cut $200 billion over 10 years, as the national debt expands by $20 trillion.
Charlie Lynch’s ordeal is a vivid reminder of a senseless prohibition policy that persists thanks to political inertia.
Marijuana's classification has always been a political question, not a medical one.
The reversal of a landmark reform was driven by unrealistic expectations and unproven assertions.
The sequel is about ecology, politics, economics, imperialism, and much more. But mostly it's about worms.
"Nobody's ever reported that to me," Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey said after his deputies admitted to brutalizing innocent people.
The DEA is cracking down on manufacturers, hurting patients who genuinely need those drugs.
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