Weed Salvaged the Lost Year
2020 was nobody’s idea of a good year, but the ability to smoke pot in my own backyard, mostly free from fear of arrest, majorly redeemed it.
2020 was nobody’s idea of a good year, but the ability to smoke pot in my own backyard, mostly free from fear of arrest, majorly redeemed it.
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Three recently approved plans show what politicians have learned (or failed to learn) since Colorado became the first state to allow recreational use.
L.A. teachers win $500 childcare concession, though New York union still holding firm on anti-scientific 2-case rule.
The book, which garnered a $4 million deal and touted Cuomo's purported pandemic-handling competence, may have gotten the governor into hot water.
Joe Biden, meanwhile, supports continued national prohibition, maintaining an untenable conflict between state and federal laws.
The law is surprisingly permissive in some ways, but it includes high taxes and other provisions that hurt consumers.
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It's too late for health passports to make a difference, but the damage could be immense.
A compromise is now circulating that would establish a market but also allow growing at home.
He should've focused on containing nursing home COVID spread, not getting VIP treatment for penthouse-dwelling Manhattanites (and his own family members).
The HALT Act would allow incarcerated people to be held in solitary confinement for no more than 15 days.
How New York's governor botched early-pandemic guidance to residential care facilities for intellectually disabled adults
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The governors of New York and California have botched major aspects of the pandemic response.
"You did it to yourself, hon," the officer says.
Why didn't Cuomo and De Blasio build a decent, user-friendly website?
Public-sector unions often protect the government at the expense of the people.
The New York governor should look to his own state.
No home cultivation? Increased criminal penalties? This is not the way to end a drug war.
Now officials in Chicago and New York are reconsidering their rules.
His original guidance forced hospitals to throw away vaccine doses. That still might happen.
More than 4,100 people died of COVID-19 yesterday across the country, but some New York medical providers are dumping vaccines instead of putting them in people's arms.
The legislation gives the government wide latitude to detain those who might have a contagious disease.
The factory fire was salt in the wound of this struggling iconic New York business.
The New York governor says hospitals have to increase vaccinations—but there's a catch.
A growing number of states are enshrining eviction moratoriums into laws that won't expire until well into next year.
A year into the pandemic, politicians still have not digested the dangers of careless public health measures.
The evidence is limited and mixed, but data from New York, Minnesota, and California suggest that restaurants there account for a small share of infections.
New York quickly reversed its ludicrous bathroom ban following backlash from the hospitality industry and anyone with a little common sense.
New York's unemployment rate is nearly 10 percent and roughly one-third of small businesses in New York City may have closed forever. Seems like a great time to make it more expensive to employ people, right?
Individually and in organized groups, people are pushing back against lockdown orders.
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Using police to forcefully shut down Mac's Public House is a violation of liberty and a waste of resources.
The New York Times columnist misconstrues the issues at stake in the challenge to New York's restrictions on houses of worship.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo described his policy as a "fear-driven response," cut by a "hatchet" rather than a "scalpel."
The New York governor is getting a shiny award for playing a good governor on TV.
The case gives SCOTUS another chance to enforce constitutional limits on disease control measures.
As the coronavirus reshapes daily life, two Reason editors crisscross the country and describe what they’ve seen.
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The subject of the new film Mighty Ira explains why social justice warriors are wrong to attack free speech.
Students and congregants may be collateral damage in a turf war between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.