Longtime Ban on Home Distilling May Finally End
Why is making spirits for personal use any of the government’s business in the first place?
Why is making spirits for personal use any of the government’s business in the first place?
One thing seems clear: Drug warriors do not deserve credit for the turnaround, although they deserve blame for the previous explosion in fatal overdoses.
Three people have pled guilty and two will go to trial over the actor's death.
His new stance could encourage Vice President Kamala Harris to emphasize her opposition to federal marijuana prohibition.
Prosecutors' attempts to convert accidental overdoses into homicides are dangerous and morally dubious.
Washington bureaucrats are rewriting the rules on drinking, and a hidden panel of unelected officials could be paving the way for Prohibition 2.0.
The blanket pardon is one of the largest yet, and another sign of the collapse of public support for marijuana prohibition.
Australia’s Prohibition-style attempts to abolish nicotine use have predictably led to a new drug war being fought over a legal substance.
New research and paternalistic legislators could threaten our last in-flight comfort.
Rescheduling does not resolve the conflict between federal pot prohibition and state rejection of that policy.
Regulating artificial intelligence presents a "Baptists and bootleggers" problem.
The head of Students for Sensible Drug Policy clarifies the misconceptions around decriminalization, safe injection sites, and whether Trump or Biden is better on drug policy.
I asked artificial intelligence to tell me how to take psychedelic mushrooms.
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Florida’s protectionist ban on the nascent industry sacrifices conservative principles in the name of a culture war that politicizes everything.
"We should be building a wall around the welfare state, not the United States," Nick Gillespie argued at a recent immigration debate.
Economist Michael Clemens has the most extensive and sophisticated analysis of this issue to date.
Columbia law professor David Pozen recalls the controversy provoked by early anti-drug laws and the hope inspired by subsequent legal assaults on prohibition.
Don't trust the do-gooders campaigning against drinking, smoking, and gambling.
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.
Sadly, not by drinking it—the government just lost a fifth of the state’s inventory.
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 judicially approved Brookline ban reflects a broader trend among progressives who should know better.
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.
The reversal of a landmark reform was driven by unrealistic expectations and unproven assertions.
Recent research finds "no evidence" that it did, undermining a key claim by critics of that policy.
In 2024, the FDA will decide whether or not MDMA can be used to treat patients suffering from PTSD.
The infamous food-beverage ratio may be reformed, but not abolished.
Liquor store owners and store association lobbyists claimed that allowing alcohol sales on Sunday would negatively impact their livelihoods.
Jordan S. Rubin's Bizarro tells the story of the men who tried and failed to challenge the government's arbitrary rules on synthetic drugs.
Nannies never fall out of love with failed authoritarianism and curbs on freedom of choice.
Today’s nicotine prohibitionists may do well to take a few moments to contemplate their anti-alcohol predecessors.
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Intoxicating drugs never do as much damage as the laws that impotently attempt to eradicate them.
The death of the Friends star should remind us of the costs of the war on drugs.
Plus: A listener asks the editors to weigh in on a hypothetical executive order to establish an American Climate Corps.
The late California senator always seemed to err on the side of more government power and less individual freedom.
The culprit is prohibition, not lax border policing.
The Republican presidential candidate ignores the lethal impact of the drug policies he avidly supports.
Prohibition is at the root of the hazards that have led to record numbers of opioid-related deaths.
For five decades, drugs have been winning the war on drugs.
The FDA failed to consider whether premium cigars warranted a different regulatory approach than cigarettes.
Mixing other drugs with xylazine is driven by the economics of prohibition.