Prohibition

Bootleggers and Baptists

Watch This: FSU Student's Film Shows Craziness of Craft Beer Laws in 'A Story So True, It's Stupid'

Robby Soave | 8.13.2014 12:47 PM

Science & Technology

You Can't Stop the Dark Net (Yet Everyone Keeps Trying)

Dark net drug sales have more than doubled since the FBI shut down Silk Road.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.1.2014 11:38 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: The Road to Hell

Matt Welch | 7.25.2014 11:43 AM

Politics

Pot, Poker, and Prohibitionism

Do Republicans want to be the party of unprincipled killjoys?

Jacob Sullum | 7.1.2014 12:00 PM

Policy

How Not to Legalize a Drug

Yanking alcohol back out of the black market left America with a wicked Prohibition hangover.

Garrett Peck | 6.4.2014 1:00 PM

Politics

Letters

Reason Staff | 5.31.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Where the War on Pot Will Go to Die

Nick Gillespie | 5.23.2014 11:24 AM

Marijuana

The Long Road to Dismantling Prohibition

Ed Krayewski | 5.9.2014 12:59 PM

Politics

Read Reason's Complete May 2014 Issue

Reason Staff | 5.3.2014 12:00 PM

Politics

Florida Trying to Make Microbreweries Sell, Buy Their Own Beer Back from Distributors

Nick Gillespie | 4.9.2014 10:50 AM

Politics

Millennials, the Tech-savvy, Independents, and Libertarians Say Bitcoin Should Be Allowed; Bitcoin Tells Us Who Cares About Choice

Emily Ekins | 4.7.2014 9:10 AM

Politics

What Are You Going to Do Now That You've Lost the Drug War? Blame George Soros!

Matt Welch | 4.4.2014 10:43 AM

Politics

Uncle Sam's Drinking Game

The federal government's definition of excessive alcohol consumption mixes medicine with moralism.

Jacob Sullum | 3.21.2014 10:00 AM

Policy

Georgia CBD Medical Marijuana Bill Wins in House Committee, Still Has Shortcomings

Tracy Oppenheimer | 3.1.2014 9:30 AM

Politics

The Prohibitionist Curse

Success softened drug warriors' arguments. Now failure has exposed them.

Matt Welch | 2.13.2014 10:00 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Penn Jillette, Anti-NSA Politics, Minimum Wage Hypocrisy, Beyonce's Behind, SOTU Preview, and Interview With Prohibitionist Kevin Sabet

Matt Welch | 1.27.2014 7:47 PM

Politics

On #RepealDay, Remember "Prohibition Vogue" with Ken Burns, Dan Okrent, and Boardwalk Empire

Nick Gillespie | 12.5.2013 10:59 AM

Policy

Hoist a Glass to the End of One Prohibition, and Hope for an End to Others

J.D. Tuccille | 12.5.2013 9:33 AM

War on Drugs

Paper Shows International Split in War on Drugs

South American countries want to pursue alternatives to prohibition

Reason Staff | 12.2.2013 1:40 PM

Politics

On Legalizing Weed, Virginia Should Just Say Yes

Prohibition is expensive, unnecessary, and hurts people.

A. Barton Hinkle | 11.13.2013 3:00 PM

Politics

Colorado's Rump Prohibitionists

A Denver suburb tries to opt out of marijuana legalization.

Jacob Sullum | 10.16.2013 9:00 AM

Politics

The Clueless Crusade to Ban E-Cigarettes

Prohibitionists target a safe alternative because...it looks like smoking?

Nick Gillespie | 8.28.2013 4:30 PM

Politics

Anti-Smoking Activists' Clueless Crusade Against E-Cigarettes

Nick Gillespie | 8.25.2013 10:22 AM

Politics

Matt Welch Talks Holder's Drug Reforms, Ridicules Notion That Pot Is More Dangerous Than Alcohol on CNBC

Matt Welch | 8.16.2013 8:51 AM

Policy

Oglala Sioux Tribe Votes To End Prohibition on Reservation

1,871 to 1,679

Reason Staff | 8.15.2013 7:32 AM

Policy

FDA Attacks Menthol Cigarettes for Smooth Flavor

Guy Bentley | 7.25.2013 1:20 PM

Policy

Cigarette Smuggling Makes Nanny State Taxes Go Up in Smoke

Prohibition is creating a tobacco black market in Washington state.

Shelby Sebens | 7.20.2013 1:00 PM

Policy

Chicago Lawyer Suing City For Allowing Wine Store in 'Dry' Area

People in the neighborhood voted 31 years ago to ban alcohol

Reason Staff | 7.11.2013 1:40 PM

Politics

Is Indiana Ready for Cold Beer at Convenience Stores? Is America Ready to End Prohibition?

Stupid, ridiculous booze laws still haunt the Land of the Free.

Nick Gillespie and Joshua Swain | 7.1.2013 3:00 PM

Policy

Six Plainclothes Cops Attack and Arrest University of Virginia Sorority Woman After She Buys Water From Grocery Store

Brian Doherty | 6.28.2013 11:52 AM

Culture

Adam Kokesh Arrested at Anti-Prohibition Protest in Philly

Charged with resisting arrest. But for what?

Reason Staff | 5.19.2013 1:20 PM

Policy

A Never-Ending Game of Cat and Mouse

The battle between smugglers and the state forged the U.S.

Nicholas Snow | 4.16.2013 7:00 AM

Policy

At Least 51 People are Dead in Libya After Drinking Homemade Alcohol

Sale and consumption of alcohol is illegal in Libya

Reason Staff | 3.11.2013 8:04 PM

Culture

Chicago Names Mexican Drug Lord "Public Enemy Number One"

Just like Capone

Reason Staff | 2.14.2013 2:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Green Hat Gin Gets to Keep Its Name

Meredith Bragg | 2.12.2013 5:59 PM

Policy

Are Prohibitionists Trying To Make the Tuccille Family Rich?

J.D. Tuccille | 2.8.2013 6:31 PM

Policy

Americans Support Treating Marijuana Like Alcohol

Want feds to leave states alone

Reason Staff | 1.31.2013 3:00 PM

Policy

Prohibitions Don't Work, And New Technology Makes That More Obvious

J.D. Tuccille | 1.7.2013 8:48 PM

Policy

Prohibitionists Respond to Repeal: Bootlegging, Racketeering, and Kidnapping Will Go Up Now! You'll Come Crawling Back, Just Wait and See!

A flashback to 1933

Jesse Walker | 12.5.2012 11:15 AM

Policy

Despite Laws and Prevention Efforts, Hazing Continues

Another failure of prohibition people can't get their heads around

Reason Staff | 11.20.2012 7:30 PM

Politics

Marijuana Initiatives Also Thrive on the Municipal Level

Six cities scale down their drug wars

Scott Shackford | 11.7.2012 4:33 PM

Policy

America's War on Drugs Keeps It From Being the Freest Country on Earth

A war on drugs-on people, that is-is unworthy of a country that claims to be free.

John Stossel | 8.29.2012 12:00 PM