DEA

Policy

The DEA Fights Drugs by Collecting Your Phone Records

The government acknowledges another warrantless metadata program.

Jacob Sullum | 1.19.2015 3:10 PM

Culture

How the DEA Stole Christmas

Jesse Walker | 1.1.2015 12:00 PM

Politics

Best of 2014: "Sex, Spice and Small-Town Texas Justice: The Purple Zone Raid"

Anthony Fisher | 1.1.2015 9:00 AM

DEA

Sex, Spice, and Small-Town Texas Justice

A rogue prosecutor makes the war on drugs personal.

Anthony Fisher | 12.27.2014 1:30 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Gruber? I Just Met Her! Plus Bill Nye the Science Guy, Robert Bryce on Keystone, Kmele Foster on the USA Freedom Act, Michael Weiss on ISIS, After-show, and More!

Matt Welch | 11.17.2014 8:27 PM

Policy

DEA Searches NFL Teams for Illegally Prescribed Painkillers, Drugs

Nick Gillespie | 11.17.2014 11:00 AM

Department of Justice

All in the Timing: DOJ Releases Thousands of Docs About 'Fast and Furious'

No doubt it's just a coincidence

Reason Staff | 11.4.2014 4:40 PM

Policy

Hells Angels vs. DEA Agents and SWAT Team With Explosives

Zenon Evans | 10.31.2014 11:40 AM

Militarization of Police

Texas Prosecutor Responds to Reason's "Purple Zone Raid" Article/Video

Anthony Fisher | 10.28.2014 1:50 PM

Politics

"A Blatant Lie": Texas Prosecutor Rod Ponton Responds to Reason

Anthony Fisher | 10.28.2014 1:45 PM

Militarization of Police

Sex, Spice, and Small-Town Texas Justice: The Purple Zone Raid

Anthony Fisher | 10.25.2014 7:00 PM

DEA

DEA Agent Creates Fake Profile With Photos Pilfered From Woman's Seized Phone

Ed Krayewski | 10.7.2014 9:56 AM

Politics

DEA Improperly Paid Amtrak Worker $850,000 for Passenger Info that It Could Have Gotten for Free.

Nick Gillespie | 8.11.2014 8:05 PM

Civil Liberties

More on the DEA's War on "Synthetic Drugs"–and One Texas Smoke Shop

Brian Doherty | 8.8.2014 8:08 PM

Civil Liberties

DEA Agents Left Daniel Chong Abandoned in Holding Cell, Justice Department Confirms

J.D. Tuccille | 7.9.2014 12:12 PM

Policy

The DEA's 'Four Decades of Impeding and Rejecting Science'

Jacob Sullum | 6.10.2014 4:24 PM

Policy

Will a Congressional Rebuke Stop the DEA From Treating Hemp Like Pot?

Jacob Sullum | 6.9.2014 1:35 PM

Politics

The Former DEA Agent Turned Cannabis Investor

Paul Detrick | 5.31.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

House Approves Measures to Keep DEA Hands Off Hemp

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.30.2014 10:03 AM

Policy

Free Hemp From Stupid Restrictions

Kentucky's lawsuit against the DEA may point the way to change.

Baylen Linnekin | 5.24.2014 8:00 AM

FBI

Finally, Government Surveillance to Get Behind: FBI to Start Recording Interrogations

Scott Shackford | 5.21.2014 5:00 PM

Policy

NSA Records All Cell Phone Calls in the Bahamas, Finds Some Guy Mailing Marijuana

Scott Shackford | 5.20.2014 11:40 AM

Politics

Thomas Massie Eats Hemp on Live TV

Matt Welch | 5.20.2014 10:22 AM

War on Drugs

DEA Chief Dials Back Drug War Bluster After Talk With Holder

The Huffington Post | 5.16.2014 12:25 PM

Sentencing

Obama's DEA Chief Refuses To Support Drug Sentencing Reforms

The Huffington Post | 5.6.2014 12:46 PM

Civil Liberties

Oregon Cops Illegally Parked Cars, Arrested Tow Truck Employees Who Asked for Proof of Ownership, Lawsuit Alleges

Cops also apparently cursed out a business owner who warned them they were parked illegally

Ed Krayewski | 3.13.2014 12:18 PM

Medical Marijuana

DEA Agent Joins Marijuana Industry

Paul Detrick | 3.1.2014 8:00 PM

Civil Liberties

DEA Documents Training Agents to Conceal Surveillance Program Info Released

Designed to keep from having to tell defense attorneys where info came from

Reason Staff | 2.3.2014 4:45 PM

Politics

Obama Retreats From the War on Drugs

He shouldn't stop now.

Steve Chapman | 1.23.2014 12:00 PM

War on Drugs

Marijuana Legalization Scares Us, Panicked DEA Official Tells Senators

J.D. Tuccille | 1.17.2014 4:29 PM

Policy

DEA Operations Chief Calls State Level Legalization of Marijuana 'Reckless and Irresponsible'

Shocker

Reason Staff | 1.16.2014 8:50 AM

Policy

Prescription Privacy

DEA vs. ACLU

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.31.2013 7:00 AM

Policy

Former DEA Agent Quits Job, Joins the Marijuana Industry

Jess Remington | 12.11.2013 5:45 PM

Culture

North Korea May Be Pushing Meth at "Breaking Bad" Purity Level

Alleged drug dealer boasts of North Korea's role in high-grade meth he was selling, according to federal indictment

Reason Staff | 11.21.2013 12:10 PM

Science & Technology

Another Silk Road Vendor Charged

Did he also turn federal informant?

Reason Staff | 11.7.2013 2:50 PM

War on Drugs

Michigan Medical Marijuana Raids Involve 160 Cops from 16 Law Enforcement Agencies at 28 Locations, 27 People Indicted, Charges Dropped "Temporarily" a Few Days Later

Raids obviously involved asset seizures too

Ed Krayewski | 10.30.2013 3:08 PM

War on Drugs

Supposed Flesh Eating Drug Krokodil in U.S. Seems to Be a Crock

Brian Doherty | 10.29.2013 1:05 PM

Policy

Florida Man Arrested After Allegedly Impersonating a DEA Officer To Get Into Strip Clubs

Benjamin William Mejias

Reason Staff | 10.16.2013 7:40 AM

War on Drugs

Former Soldiers Charged in Plot to Kill DEA Agent

In order to protect drug shipments

Reason Staff | 9.27.2013 2:30 PM

Civil Liberties

ACLU: DEA Say There's No "Constitutionally Protected Privacy Interest" to Prescription Records

In response to an ACLU lawsuit

Reason Staff | 9.24.2013 4:00 PM

Policy

The DEA: On Its 40th Anniversary, Don't Reform, Eradicate!

Brian Doherty | 9.12.2013 12:47 PM

Politics

Report: DEA Has Been Secretly Snooping on More Americans' Phone Calls Than Even the NSA

Matt Welch | 9.2.2013 9:20 AM

Civil Liberties

DEA Phone Database Eclipses NSA Efforts

Working with AT&T to access phone data going back to 1987

Reason Staff | 9.1.2013 10:45 PM

Policy

DEA Orders Security Companies to Stop Working with Pot Dispensaries

Deliberately creating the circumstances to make legal clinics more dangerous

Reason Staff | 8.23.2013 11:15 AM

Culture

DEA Taskforce Member Accused of Stealing Tens of Thousands of Dollars Worth of Drugs

Heroin and oxycodone pills

Reason Staff | 8.22.2013 4:30 PM

Policy

Family of Teen Killed by DEA Agents Gets $3 Million

Federal judge says the agents did have reason to believe they were in danger

Reason Staff | 8.22.2013 7:00 AM