Massachusetts Could Lift Its Decades-Old Happy Hour Ban
The ban hasn't prevented deadly drunk driving incidents, but it is hamstringing bars and restaurants hurt by COVID shutdowns.
The ban hasn't prevented deadly drunk driving incidents, but it is hamstringing bars and restaurants hurt by COVID shutdowns.
Ripped for use of excessive force, the Springfield, Massachusetts, Narcotics Bureau is becoming a Firearms Investigation Unit.
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Prohibitions drive hazardous activities underground, which makes them more risky.
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Decades of advocacy from libertarian-leaning academics have failed to end the federal ban on kidney sales. Can a personal injury attorney from New York and a service dog trainer from New Jersey get the job done instead?
Defying authoritarian laws helps to preserve freedom and to undermine prohibitions.
Certain politicians and pundits are living in a 1930s fantasy world.
Hawaii's 10-cent booze tax draws ire of brewers, while Alabama moves toward legalizing alcohol delivery.
The winners in every battle over restrictions are the people who do whatever they please without regard for government officials.
The Columbia neuroscientist talks frankly about using heroin responsibly and "chasing liberty in the land of fear."
In a glimpse of a gloriously rule-breaking future, contraband has boldly gone where more is sure to follow.
Reason's writers and editors share their suggestions for what you should be buying your friends and family this year.
Virginia Postrel's new book explores economics, politics, and technology through textiles.
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Experts are blasting proposed federal guidelines that call for men to consume no more than one alcoholic beverage per day.
Where are calorie-counting scolds when you need them?
Too bad. Deregulation could (and should) be here to stay.
Allowing cocktails-to-go and outdoor drinking can help bartenders and restaurant staff survive the COVID-19 shutdowns.
Ontario has added new protections for agricultural workers and relaxed restaurant regulations.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is creating a task force to crackdown on the sale and use of illegal fireworks.
Starring Tom Hardy as the aging crime kingpin, the movie is an intriguing failure.
But we can't ban our way out of the research chemical problem.
Gov. Gina Raimondo wants to sell weed to balance the state's budget.
The great state of New Jersey idiotically compares vaping to jumping out of an airplane without a parachute.
The East African khat trade is thriving, even as global prohibition creeps in around the edges.
Independent booze retailers are trying to stifle competition using arguments from Prohibition.
Confusing regulations put well-run businesses at the mercy of bureaucratic brutes.
The House is simultaneously advancing bills that would legalize marijuana and ban the vast majority of vaping products.
A pending ban on flavored nicotine vaping products would destroy most of their industry warn vaping advocates.
From Australia to Massachusetts, illegal gun makers step in to supply what legal markets aren’t allowed to produce.
Reason's Jacob Sullum and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson debate eliminating laws that prohibit the use and sale of narcotics.
Once again, underground suppliers step in when over-regulated markets can’t satisfy customers.
When the human condition resists perfection through legislation, the answer always seems to be more—and stupider—laws.
Bad laws can cause problems long after they've been passed and forgotten.
History provides a window into how abortion bans will play out if re-instituted.
Policies aimed at curtailing the harms caused by substance abuse may instead magnify those harms.
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Nick Gillespie speaks with Viceland's Hamilton Morris about why he's so interested in drugs.
Castle Danger Brewing is the latest of the state's craft breweries to be victimized by a law that forbids all but the smallest operations from selling growlers on location.
R Street's Jarrett Dieterle explains five of the most absurd alcohol laws still on the books today.
Cocaine offers better value than the market in prohibitionist fears.
The moral arc of the universe is actually a squiggly line
Tanzania follows in the footsteps of Rwanda and Kenya.
Restrictionists once again discover that draconian rules aren’t enough to overcome people unwilling to obey.
It's hard to undo decades of bad policy with a single bill