Drugs
Does Oregon’s decriminalization reversal show drugs should be illegal?
Drug policy scholar Kevin Sabet and Reason's Zach Weissmueller debate the resolution, "The failure of Oregon's experiment in decriminalizing all drugs is compelling evidence that other attempts at complete…
Trump dares Congress to take its war powers seriously in Venezuela
The framers of the Constitution had a clear idea of how war should work. Although the President is "commander in chief" of the military, the Constitution states that Congress has the power "to declare war,…
Does Oregon’s decriminalization reversal show drugs should be illegal?
Drug policy scholar Kevin Sabet and Reason's Zach Weissmueller debate the resolution, "The failure of Oregon's experiment in decriminalizing all drugs is compelling evidence that other attempts at complete…
Singapore can’t execute its way to a drug-free society
When I met Angelia Pranthaman and her brother Joshua in Singapore two years ago, they were still cheerful and upbeat. They had a couple of hours to kill before their bus back to Malaysia, a long journey they undertook as…
Did the U.S. kill an innocent fisherman during military strike on Colombian boat?
Submarine struck: Colombian President Gustavo Petro has accused the U.S. of murdering one of his people—an innocent fisherman—in a strike intended for boats carrying drugs and narcotraffickers. This accusation angered…
Trump secretly authorized the CIA to take action in Venezuela
"We're not talking about" regime change in Venezuela, President Donald Trump told reporters back in August. "I can only say that billions of dollars of drugs are pouring into our country from…
How Trump’s FTC Can Keep Drug Prices Down for Working Americans
How do leading retailers like Amazon and Walmart deliver low prices to their customers? The companies buy so much from their suppliers that they can demand discounts. That dynamic applies in the health care industry as well,…
Graham St. John’s ‘Strange Attractor’ explores Terence McKenna’s life and ideas
Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna, by Graham St. John, The MIT Press, 548 pages, $35 A large crowd filled the Scottish Rite Temple in downtown Los Angeles to hear the man who first synthesized LSD…
At Hearing, Bondi and Durbin Clash on National Guard Deployment
Attorney General Pam Bondi clashed with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on law enforcement issues at a fiery Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. Durbin, the ranking member of the committee, questioned Bondi about the…
Susannah Cahalan on ‘Acid Queen’ Rosemary Woodruff Leary
Rosemary Woodruff Leary is remembered—if she's remembered at all—as a muse, fugitive, and heavily indicted co-conspirator in Timothy Leary's psychedelic revolution of the 1960s and '70s. But her story is far…
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