Marijuana
Trump expected to reclassify marijuana as less dangerous on Thursday despite serious harms
Wed Dec 17, 2025 - 6:24 pm EST WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday directing federal agencies to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I drug to Schedule…
Should libertarians support federal AI regulation?
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch are joined by associate editor Liz Wolfe to discuss President Donald Trump's executive order blocking states from enforcing their own artificial…
What Trump’s marijuana rescheduling plan would—and wouldn’t—do
During his 2024 campaign, President Donald Trump indicated that he supported the Biden administration's plan to reclassify marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), saying "we will continue to focus on…
Trump moves toward federal marijuana reclassification
Schedule III: President Donald Trump is soon expected to push for the federal reclassification of marijuana. "Trump discussed the plan with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) in a Wednesday phone call from the Oval…
The DOJ says it will challenge unconstitutional gun policies. Maybe it should stop defending them.
The Justice Department recently established a "Second Amendment Section" within its Civil Rights Division. On its face, that move is a welcome development for defenders of the constitutional right to armed…
Philip Hamburger on “The Importance of Granting Cert in Canna Provisions v. Bondi”
Illustration: Lex Villena Columbia law Prof. Philip Hamburger - one of the nation's leading constitutional law and administrative law scholars - saw my post urging the Supreme Court to consider the case of Canna…
The Supreme Court Should Hear Case Seeking to Overturn Gonzales v. Raich
A cannabis plant. (NA) A recent petition for certiorari in the case of Canna Provisions, Inc. v. Bondi, asks the Supreme Court to overrule its terrible decision in Gonzales v. Raich (2005), which held that Congress'…
Psychoactive hemp products will be banned unless Congress intervenes
Thanks to a bill approved as part of the package that ended the federal shutdown, intoxicating hemp products will be federally prohibited as of November 13, 2026, a year after President Donald Trump signed the legislation.…
A Senate-approved bill would ban the hemp-derived THC products that Congress legalized in 2018
Forty states now allow medical use of marijuana, while 24, accounting for most of the U.S. population, also allow recreational use. Yet the federal ban on marijuana, first enacted in 1937, remains in place, which means…
California couple faces $1 million in fines for someone else’s code violations
A California couple is staring down stratospheric fines after their property allegedly ran afoul of local cannabis code violations. The kicker, however, is that the previous owner is to blame for the infractions. That has not…
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