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• Colorado, Washington State Vote to Tax and Regulate Recreational Marijuana for Adults
  Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Criminal Justice and Corrections
  Harris Kenny and Andrew Livingston
  May 6, 2013
• Legislature Has the Chance to Set a Standard on 64
  It is in policymakers' best interests to get this right—even if they didn’t support the initiative in the first place.
  Harris Kenny and Leonard Gilroy
  December 28, 2012
• Why Colorado’s Marijuana Legalization Initiative Could Be In Vain
  State policymakers need to develop sensible marijuana regulations, not destructive ones.
  Harris Kenny and Leonard Gilroy
  December 14, 2012
• Union-Propagated Red Herrings Continue to Mar Corrections Research
  Meaningful reform requires an all-of-the-above strategy, including privatization.
  Harris Kenny
  June 13, 2012
• Your Lying Eyes
  How fallible memories send innocent people to prison
  Jacob Sullum
  August 31, 2011
• Serve and Protect
  The dangers of our increasingly militarized police
  A. Barton Hinkle
  August 23, 2011
• Cannabis Capitulation
  The marijuana exception to Jan Brewer's federalism
  Jacob Sullum
  July 27, 2011
• The Week of Lying Dangerously
  Obama displays a Clintonian desire to have things both ways.
  Jacob Sullum
  July 6, 2011
• The Devil’s Bargain
  How plea agreements, never contemplated by the Framers, undermine justice
  Tim Lynch
  July 5, 2011
• Keeping Kids Outside the System
  Alternatives to juvenile detention are cheaper and more effective.
  Irene Sullivan
  July 4, 2011
• Collars for Dollars
  How the drug war sacrifices real policing for easy arrests.
  Peter Moskos
  June 29, 2011
• Among the Biotech Conventioneers
  A dispatch on the value of failed drugs, new vaccines against superbugs, and the prospect of a molecular stethoscope.
  Ronald Bailey
  June 28, 2011
• Bad Boys
  A rogue’s gallery of misbehaving prosecutors, plus three worth praising
  Radley Balko
  June 27, 2011
• Indefensible
  Public defenders are too overloaded to protect the rights of the accused.
  Clay Conrad
  June 22, 2011
• Rape Factories
  Why is the government doing so little to end sexual assault in prisons?
  Lovisa Stannow
  June 20, 2011
• The Crime Rate Puzzle
  Did incarceration reduce the crime rate, or did it get in the way?
  Radley Balko
  June 20, 2011
• The Price of Prohibition
  Forty years after Nixon declared war on drugs, it's time to give peace a chance.
  Jacob Sullum
  June 15, 2011
• The Guilt Market
  Criminal snitching threatens the integrity of the justice system.
  Alexandra Natapoff
  June 13, 2011
• All Aboard the Latin American Drug War Gravy Train
  Waging the war on drugs in Latin America is a gold mine for contractors, a waste for taxpayers
  Mike Riggs
  June 10, 2011
• Prison Math
  What are the costs and benefits of leading the world in locking up human beings?
  Veronique de Rugy
  June 8, 2011
• Wrongful Convictions
  How many innocent Americans are behind bars?
  Radley Balko
  June 7, 2011
• Declare Defeat and Go Home
  The War on Drugs has failed. Let's try something else.
  A. Barton Hinkle
  June 7, 2011
• Locked Up, Locked Out
  The social costs of incarceration
  Bruce Western
  June 6, 2011
• The Ends Didn’t Justify the Means
  Our complicity in the devastating war on crime
  Matt Welch
  June 6, 2011
• Brown v. Plata Ruling Highlights Need for Reform (Not Tax Increases)
  A multi-faceted approach is necessary to finally reform California's correctional system
  Harris Kenny and Adam Summers
  June 2, 2011
• When Punishment Is a Crime
  The Supreme Court takes on California's overcrowded prison system.
  Steve Chapman
  May 30, 2011
• Big Brother Is Watching You
  Overreaching law enforcement puts privacy rights at risk.
  A. Barton Hinkle
  May 25, 2011
• Home Insecurity
  Two privacy rulings hit us where we live.
  Jacob Sullum
  May 25, 2011
• A Fate Worse Than Death Panels?
  Legislation that would improve access to pain medication for the elderly is five months behind schedule, and no one will say why.
  Mike Riggs
  May 20, 2011
• False Forbearance
  Obama breaks his promise to respect medical marijuana laws.
  Jacob Sullum
  May 11, 2011
• Drug Control vs. Pain Control
  A crackdown on opioid prescriptions will hurt patients.
  Jacob Sullum
  April 27, 2011
• Watch the Watchmen
  It shouldn't be a crime to record the cops.
  John Stossel
  April 21, 2011
• Constitutional Refuseniks
  Stewart Rhodes on his controversial group the Oath Keepers and the orders they won't obey
  Radley Balko
  April 11, 2011
• Failing Upward in Criminal Justice
  The prosecutor who wrongly put a paraplegic in prison wants to be a judge.
  Radley Balko
  March 22, 2011
• How Drug Cops Go Bad
  We shouldn't be surprised when the police officers we ask to break the laws they enforce turn corrupt.
  Radley Balko
  March 21, 2011
• End the Drug War, Save Black America
  Why drug legalization is a civil rights issue
  John Stossel
  March 17, 2011
• Mitch Daniels' Pot Luck
  The Indiana governor's escape from prison taught him the importance of being tough on drug users.
  Jacob Sullum
  March 2, 2011
• The Mind of a Police Dog
  How misconceptions about dogs can lead to abuse of humans
  Radley Balko
  February 21, 2011
• The Man’s Best Friend
  Drug dogs sniff at the Fourth Amendment
  Greg Beato
  February 17, 2011
• What’s the Matter with Provincetown?
  The Democrats’ two years of control delivered zero social liberalism.
  Tim Cavanaugh
  February 1, 2011
• Government Pills
  I'm from the government and I'm here to help with new drug discovery
  Ronald Bailey
  January 25, 2011
• A Beating in Pittsburgh
  A year after three cops beat an unarmed music student, they are still getting paid to do nothing.
  Radley Balko
  January 24, 2011
• Just a Matter of When?
  Legalizing marijuana has failed in California. But even in defeat, Proposition 19 might mark the beginning of the end for prohibition.
  Brian Doherty
  January 18, 2011
• Justice for Sal
  After five years, the family of a Virginia optometrist killed by a SWAT team finally gets some closure.
  Radley Balko
  January 17, 2011
• When Booze Was Banned but Pot Was Not
  What can today’s antiprohibitionists learn from their predecessors?
  Jacob Sullum
  January 13, 2011
• Follow the Bouncing Buck
  The year's highlights in blame shifting
  Jacob Sullum
  December 29, 2010
• Beyond Bars
  A new project has conservatives thinking more seriously about crime.
  Radley Balko
  December 20, 2010
• The SWAT Team Would Like to See Your Alcohol Permit
  How police use regulatory inspections to conduct warrantless searches
  Radley Balko
  December 13, 2010
• Chilling Her Softly
  The secret silencing of a pain treatment activist
  Jacob Sullum
  November 17, 2010
• “It’s No Longer a Matter of If, It’s a Matter of When”
  Staying high on marijuana legalization after the defeat of Proposition 19
  Brian Doherty
  November 5, 2010
• The Media Aren't Liberal
  Prop. 19 highlights the authoritarian tendencies of the mainstream press.
  Radley Balko
  November 1, 2010
• More Democracy, More Incarceration
  The devastating mix of politics and crime policy
  Radley Balko
  October 25, 2010
• The Amazing Elastic Commerce Clause
  The individual health insurance mandate tugs on an overstretched federal power.
  Jacob Sullum
  October 20, 2010
• America's Most Successful Stop Snitchin' Campaign
  The failure to protect whistle-blowing cops is inexcusable.
  Radley Balko
  October 18, 2010
• How to Profit by Expanding Freedom
  The case for drug legalization
  Steve Chapman
  October 11, 2010
• The Politics of Proposition 19
  Marijuana legalization hits the big time
  Brian Doherty
  October 7, 2010
• Pot Prohibitionist Prevarications
  Five whoppers told by opponents of California's marijuana legalization initiative
  Jacob Sullum
  October 6, 2010
• How to Slash the State
  14 ways to dismantle a monstrous government, one program at a time
  October 5, 2010
• Waiting for the Man
  The long road to marijuana legalization
  David Harsanyi
  September 29, 2010
• Federalism and Medical Marijuana
  Let the states serve as experimental laboratories.
  Patri Friedman
  September 24, 2010
• Needs More RAM
  Another drug raid gone bad
  Radley Balko
  August 31, 2010
• The Government's License To Steal
  Indiana's laws prohibiting police departments from enriching themselves via asset forfeiture would be much more effective if they weren't ignored.
  Radley Balko
  August 16, 2010
• Why Buy the Cow?
  Legal weed, jokes about communists, and the perils of purchasing your own milk maker.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  August 13, 2010
• These Buds Are for You
  Legal marijuana would be a boon for California consumers.
  Jacob Sullum
  July 28, 2010
• Police Blackout
  Law enforcement agencies in Northern Virginia say you have no right to know what they’re doing.
  Radley Balko
  June 29, 2010
• Confirmation Theater
  Elena Kagan is set to participate in a confirmation process she once dismissed as a charade
  Radley Balko
  June 28, 2010
• Another Marylander Arrested for Recording the Police
  According to state officials, only on-duty cops have a privacy right in public spaces.
  Radley Balko
  June 21, 2010
• End the Drug War
  Government goes astray when it tries to protect us from ourselves.
  John Stossel
  June 17, 2010
• Lessons from the Death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones
  How aggressive SWAT tactics contributed to the death of a 7-year-old Detroit girl.
  Radley Balko
  May 24, 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
  May 19, 2010
• A Drug Raid Goes Viral
  A violent drug raid posted to YouTube catches fire online. But the only thing unusual about the raid is that it was caught on video.
  Radley Balko
  May 11, 2010
• Gin, Girls, and Governance
  Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman on personal freedom, free speech, and the state
  Radley Balko
  May 10, 2010
• Los Angeles Destroys Functioning Businesses in a Recession
  But that’s OK with the city—those businesses are selling medical marijuana
  Brian Doherty
  May 6, 2010
• Watching the Detectives
  A nebulous "right" to videotape on-duty cops isn't enough. The right needs to be enforced.
  Radley Balko
  April 26, 2010
• Hash Bash
  Scenes from the 2010 International Cannabis and Hemp Expo
  Greg Beato
  April 20, 2010
• L.A.’s Pot Revolution
  How Los Angeles became the “wild West” of medical marijuana—and lived to tell the tale
  Brian Doherty
  April 12, 2010
• Smoke a Joint, Lose Your Country
  Rigid deportation rules make a mockery of justice.
  Jacob Sullum
  April 7, 2010
• In the Drug War, Drugs Are Winning
  The case for legalizing marijuana
  Steve Chapman
  March 29, 2010
• Another Senseless Drug War Death
  Stunning developments in the 2009 police shooting of Georgia pastor Jonathan Ayers
  Radley Balko
  March 23, 2010
• Death in Juarez
  The bloody consequences of America's pharmacological intolerance
  Jacob Sullum
  March 17, 2010
• ‘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
• Queue No More
  Canada's surprising proposal for fast tracking new drugs to patients
  Ronald Bailey
  April 14, 2009
• Baseball's Persistent Drug Culture
  Banning steroids will not prevent further substance abuse
  Steve Chapman
  February 12, 2009
• 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
• Industrial Hemp Can Boost Economy, Cut Pollution
  Schwarzenegger's drug war concerns are way off base
  Skaidra Smith-Heisters
  April 19, 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
• Surf City's Shameful Pols
  Huntington Beach's medical marijuana stand ignores state law
  David Nott
  February 10, 2005
• 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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