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- ‘You Cut Spending’
Former New Mexico governor and possible presidential candidate Gary Johnson talks about Obamanomics, ending the drug war, and climbing the highest mountains.
Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch
March 16, 2010 - Pre-Crime Policing
Allegedly “disgruntled” man has his guns seized, and “voluntarily” surrenders to two SWAT teams and dozens of police officers for a crime that hadn’t been committed
Radley Balko
March 16, 2010 - The Other Broken Windows Fallacy
The NYPD is accused of under-reporting serious crimes while manufacturing petty ones.
Radley Balko
March 8, 2010 - Keep Your Laws Off My Body
The case for legalizing drugs, prostitution, organ sales, and other consensual acts.
John Stossel
March 4, 2010 - 4.5 SWAT Raids Per Day
Maryland's SWAT transparency bill produces its first disturbing results
Radley Balko
March 1, 2010 - Whose Body Is It?
The government should "protect" us less and respect our liberty more.
John Stossel
February 25, 2010 - Fight the Power
The unfulfilled promise of “constitutional conservatism”
Jacob Sullum
February 24, 2010 - Flashbangs Under Fire
It's time to stop using stun grenades during drug raids.
Radley Balko
February 17, 2010 - That Other War
Reagan-era drug war rhetoric is still with us, and so is the accompanying collateral damage.
Radley Balko
January 11, 2010 - The Sports Stadium and Arena Debacle
Samuel Staley
July 1, 2009, 8:20am - Medical Marijuana Dispensary Owner Charles Lynch Discusses His Prison Sentence
Lynch sentenced to one year and one day in prison; Lynch will appeal
June 12, 2009 - Cutting Government Workers and Raising Taxes
Adrian Moore
June 10, 2009, 11:36am - Gov. Schwarzenegger Says Its Time to Discuss Legalizing Marijuana
Adrian Moore
May 6, 2009, 3:09pm - L.A. City Council Votes to Study Parking Meter, Garage Privatization
Leonard Gilroy
May 1, 2009, 5:28pm - Queue No More
Canada's surprising proposal for fast tracking new drugs to patients
Ronald Bailey
April 14, 2009 - Medical Rationing Masquerading as Quality Care
Shikha Dalmia
April 9, 2009, 11:12am - The French Patient
Shikha Dalmia
April 6, 2009, 9:59pm - Taxation by Mis-Representation
Shikha Dalmia
March 21, 2009, 5:26pm - Baseball's Persistent Drug Culture
Banning steroids will not prevent further substance abuse
Steve Chapman
February 12, 2009 - Marijuana Arrests Fall in Denver After Ballot Initiative
Adrian Moore
February 10, 2009, 10:00am - People at Michael Phelps Party Arrested
Adrian Moore
February 10, 2009, 12:00am - What Michael Phelps Should Have Said
Smoking pot shouldn't be a crime. Or the public's business.
Radley Balko
February 2, 2009 - The Drug War's Collateral Damage
Drug prohibition militarizes our police, enriches our enemies, undermines our laws, and condemns our sick to suffering.
Radley Balko
January 23, 2009 - Bongs Away!
How the crusade against drug paraphernalia punishes controversial speech
Jacob Sullum
January 16, 2009 - Death by SWAT Raid
Collateral raid damage
Radley Balko
December 5, 2008 - Environmental Costs of Hemp Prohibition in the United States
Comparing the environmental performance of industrial hemp relative to substitutes in key industrial applications
Skaidra Smith-Heisters
October 27, 2008 - The Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act: Prison Overcrowding, Parole and Sentencing Reform (Proposition 5)
Policy Brief 74
Skaidra Smith-Heisters
October 1, 2008 - Feds Try to Send California Business Owner to Jail for Filling Doctors' Prescriptions
When it comes to medical marijuana, Reason.tv's Drew Carey asks if the government is treating adults like children
June 11, 2008 - Protecting Your Daughter in Your Own Home Gets You Life In Prison
Reason.tv's Drew Carey tells the story of "two of the countless casualties of the war on drugs"
May 8, 2008 - Study: U.S. Hemp Ban Hurts Environment, Economy
Hemp is cheaper, more environmentally-friendly than crops now used to make car parts, jeans
March 13, 2008 - Illegally Green: Environmental Costs of Hemp Prohibition
Skaidra Smith-Heisters
March 13, 2008 - Drew Carey Defends Medical Marijuana
New Reason.tv video examines the war on drugs and dubious DEA raids on legal medical marijuana dispensaries
November 1, 2007 - Our Militarized Police Departments
Testimony to House Subcommittee on Crime
Radley Balko
July 2, 2007 - Industrial Hemp Can Boost Economy, Cut Pollution
Schwarzenegger's drug war concerns are way off base
Skaidra Smith-Heisters
April 19, 2007 - Study Corrects LAPD Inaccuracies on Medical Marijuana
Think tank urges city to take "sensible approach" in regulating dispensaries
March 20, 2007 - Sensible Policies for Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Los Angeles
Skaidra Smith-Heisters
March 1, 2007 - State Governments Have a Drug Habit: Crack Taxes and Drug Stamps
Feds gave up taxing drugs, but 21 states seek income from illegal drug taxes
February 15, 2007 - Taxing Illegal Drugs: How States Dabble in Drugs and Why They Shouldn't
Policy Study 357
Paul Messino
February 1, 2007 - Let Them Have Their Pot
The feds should stop harassing sick patients who have the legal right to use marijuana
Manuel S. Klausner
January 26, 2007 - Schwarzenegger Vetoes Industrial Hemp
Law would've helped reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Skaidra Smith-Heisters
October 2, 2006 - The Culture War's French Connection
Morning-after pill fuels hypocrisy on both sides
Shikha Dalmia
February 7, 2006 - Raich Continues Medical Marijuana Fight, Reason Foundation Files New Brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
December 13, 2005 - Surf City's Shameful Pols
Huntington Beach's medical marijuana stand ignores state law
David Nott
February 10, 2005 - Reason Files Brief with United States Supreme Court Supporting Raich, Medical Marijuana
October 13, 2004 - A Show of Support for Medical Marijuana
California fights feds
David Nott
October 15, 2003 - Kill DARE Now
It's Costly. It Doesn't Work. It Can't Reform.
David Nott
February 10, 2003
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Drugs Blog
- 40th Anniversary of the Rockefeller Drug Laws: Time to Re-think Sentencing Policy (5/8)
- New at Reason: Privatization Developments in Criminal Justice and Corrections (5/6)
- Developments in Criminal Justice and Corrections (5/6)
- Colorado, Washington State Vote to Tax and Regulate Recreational Marijuana for Adults (5/6)
- Reason’s First Feature-Length Documentary: “America’s Longest War” (3/25)
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