New York Set to Hobble 'Legal' Cannabis with Taxes and Regulations
Empire State politicians will soon wonder why the marijuana black market still thrives.
Empire State politicians will soon wonder why the marijuana black market still thrives.
The "epidemic" of adolescent vaping seems to be fading fast, and vaping is replacing smoking among adults, a harm-reducing trend that regulators seem determined to discourage.
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A Florida woman has been threatened with fines for giving tips without the proper occupational licensing.
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Enemies of educational freedom are using inane regulations to target learning pods.
After 18 months of dealing with the FDA, some distillers are regretting making hand sanitizers at all.
It is unlikely to stop mass shootings, but it will restrict Second Amendment rights and unjustly send people to prison.
The West Virginia senator proposes marginal reforms to a federal permitting process that policy wonks say needs a root-and-branch overhaul.
Wherever markets are free, new wealth gets created. Then almost everyone wins.
The FDA has effectively thrown up its hands over its most important food-related role.
The Senate majority leader’s marijuana bill would pile on more taxes and regulations, despite years of complaints about the barriers they create.
The senator urged the Department of Transportation on Monday to regulate airline consolidation and levy heavy fines for canceled flights.
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The FDA should not stand in the way of parents doing what’s best for their children.
It may now require notice and comment to rescind final rules that were never published in the Federal Register.
Elaborate labeling requirements blocked the importation of direly needed European baby formula.
The Senate majority leader's 296-page bill would compound the barriers to successful legalization.
The terrible consequences of A.B. 5 keep coming.
The bill makes little note of parents' ability to control their own children's social media access.
Atlanta, Sioux Center, and too many other cities and towns are still treating food trucks like second-class businesses.
Florida's governor has declared a regulatory war on one of the state's biggest employers. But it's the taxpayers who may ultimately pay the price.
My review of Reviving Rationality:Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health by Michael Livermore and Richard Revesz.
Regulations ban food sales, limit the number of events, and include other inane requirements.
A 1942 decision about the Commerce Clause takes on new importance post-Roe.
California bartenders will need to be certified, while Virginians can now bring up to three gallons of booze across state lines.
Borough officials in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, told Mission First and Christ Episcopal churches that their charitable work goes beyond what the zoning code allows for downtown churches.
Many states allowed restaurants to sell to-go cocktails during COVID-19. Research shows that change is not linked to an increase in drunk driving deaths.
The agency’s policies would boost the black market and smoking-related deaths.
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Any future regulations will require clear authorization from Congress.
The United States should consider adopting a market-based strategy for increasing electric vehicle usage.
Railroads spent a decade and billions of dollars fulfilling a costly federal mandate, at the expense of addressing less eye-catching causes of rail-related deaths.
The conservative Supreme Court justice is wrong about economic liberty and the Constitution.
The unanimous decision will rein in prosecutions that have long had a chilling effect on pain treatment.
Although the chief justice's incrementalism did not sway his colleagues, his observations about the meaning of a "right to choose" could be relevant in state legislatures.
Regulatory uncertainty is keeping the seaweed market from reaching its full potential.
Most states are unlikely to enact bans, but 22 either have them already or probably will soon.
Another example of the infuriating cronyism behind CON regulations, which won't apply to a well-established hospital in Charleston that's looking to move.
A new proposed regulation from the Department of Energy would effectively require homeowners to shift to more expensive, more efficient condensing gas furnaces.
The fine print of the latest alcohol regulation proposal in Massachusetts is revealing.
Now that the pandemic is fading and much of the available rent relief has been spent, L.A.'s eviction moratorium seems like pure regulatory inertia.
Meanwhile, Delaware's governor has blocked a more modest step, and a legalization initiative has qualified for the ballot in South Dakota.
Congress has radically restricted the number of pilots without doing anything to increase safety.
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