Cato Institute immigration policy expert David Bier outlines how the US immigration system bars the vast majority of potential migrants, much like Prohibition banned almost all uses of alcohol.
A study suggests that "selectively targeting large-scale drug vendors" on the dark web can succeed where all previous enforcement efforts have failed.
The harm caused by marijuana abuse does not justify reverting to an oppressive policy that criminalized peaceful conduct.
High taxes and heavy regulations are as effective as prohibition at creating black markets.
An expanded surveillance state can’t solve problems created by drug prohibition.
Kathy Hochul isn't just waging a war on menthols. She's also floating a ban on all cigarette sales in the state.
The trend is driven by a huge drop in prosecutions in Arizona, the U.S. Sentencing Commission reports.
Q&A about the future of drug policy, drug use, and drug culture.
Conservatives have been slow to recognize the threat that drug prohibition poses to gun rights and other civil liberties.
And now the state thinks it needs to crack down even more.
Both parties are complicit in the lethal policies that gave us fentanyl disguised as Percocet.
It doesn't make sense to create laws that restrict activities enjoyed by the general populace to protect a tiny minority that will undoubtedly partake in those activities anyway.
The agency's action ignores the government's own role in creating a black market in the first place.
Is it just to punish the many for the excesses of the few?
Plus: a listener question on prohibition and a lightning round on the editors' favorite Super Bowl moments
Cannabis consumers should have the same commercial leisure spaces that alcohol drinkers do.
These days, he may run for president. His politics have changed.
Stanford University psychologist Keith Humphreys misconstrues libertarianism and ignores its critique of prohibition's deadly impact.
Q&A with the co-author of Raising the Bar: A Bottle-by-Bottle Guide to Mixing Masterful Cocktails at Home.
Q&A with Jacob Grier, co-author of Raising the Bar: A Bottle-by-Bottle Guide to Mixing Masterful Cocktails at Home.
The country's strategy ignores the failures of prohibition.
Pauline Sabin was a freedom-loving heroine.
Your tax-deductible support helps us make the case against today's overbearing nanny state.
While Biden issued pardons and ordered a review of marijuana's Schedule I status, he still supports the federal ban on weed.
How a Prohibition-era legal precedent allows warrantless surveillance on private property.
The ACLU of Oregon is calling on other state governors to follow suit.
Alcohol-related ballot measures were in play in several states last week. The results were lukewarm.
The black market for drugs empowers bad actors while imposing serious burdens on innocents.
Plaintiffs want the nanny state to nanny harder.
Peaky Blinders reminds us that when the government bans or artificially limits a resource, control of that resource often gets decided through violence.
"We have to make changes now to save lives," Brooke Jenkins said, announcing tougher penalties for fentanyl dealers.
With 28 percent of Americans trying hallucinogens, the days are numbered for bans.
California bartenders will need to be certified, while Virginians can now bring up to three gallons of booze across state lines.
Firework seizures and buyback programs won't stop millions of Americans from setting off black-market bottle rockets tonight.
Bureaucrats say they want to save lives. But they're moving to block a tool that is proven to help smokers quit entirely.
The tragic recent deaths of some 50 migrants in Texas highlights the dangers they face. But those dangers are the products of laws making legal immigration difficult or impossible for most who want to do it.
What was once a classic Silicon Valley success story has become the victim of an intensely ideological war on nicotine.
Doctors Adriane Fugh-Berman and Jeffrey A. Singer debate the harms of prescription opioids.
Doctors Adriane Fugh-Berman and Jeffrey Singer debate the harms of prescription opioids
According to new CDC numbers, the death toll rose 15 percent last year after jumping 30 percent in 2020.
An increasing number of overdoses were the result of fentanyl and methamphetamine, each of which have proliferated amid government crackdowns.
The justice overlooks the long American tradition of pharmacological freedom and the dubious constitutional basis for federal bans.
Plus: Lawsuit against Twitter can move forward, antitrust bills targeting Big Tech falter, and more...
The proposed rule, which targets the cigarettes that black smokers overwhelmingly prefer, will harm the community it is supposed to help.
Killing barroom social networks kills innovation.
Regulators have long targeted tobacco products, but there's new energy behind outright bans on vapes and cigarettes.
Plus: tasting rooms in Alaska and liquor delivery in Alabama
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