War on Drugs
Prohibition is the real opioid crisis, not prescriptions
Purdue Pharma recently reached a $7.4 billion settlement with all 50 states and the District of Columbia over its alleged role in fueling the opioid crisis through aggressive marketing of OxyContin. Regardless of the…
Legalize all drugs! ‘Reason’ versus ‘City Journal’
Reason was joined by City Journal for a lively, thought-provoking discussion. The resolution: "Legalize all drugs." Reason's Billy Binion and Jacob Sullum argued for the affirmative, while City Journal's…
Using the National Guard in DEA raids is the worst kind of drug war mission creep
The Trump administration deployed National Guard soldiers to assist the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and other federal law enforcement agencies during a large-scale marijuana raid last week in a stunning example of…
How LSD helped launch a radical libertarian counterculture
Today's guest is Susannah Cahalan, whose new book is The Acid Queen, a biography of Rosemary Woodruff Leary—muse, fugitive, and heavily indicted co-conspirator in Timothy Leary's psychedelic revolution. She talks…
FBI, DEA Testify to Cartels’ Criminal Impact on US Communities
A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday on international drug cartels emphasized that the organizations are effectively engaged in sophisticated terrorism. The hearing, “The Thin Blue Line Protecting America from the…
Psychedelic church puts Utah’s religious freedom law to the test
When Bridger Lee Jensen opened a spiritual center in Provo, Utah, he contacted city officials to let them know the religious group he had founded, Singularism, would be conducting ceremonies involving a tea made from…
Understand the economics of illegal drugs with ‘Schedule I’
Schedule I is a computer game that lets you rise from a lowly weed dealer to be Walter White or Tony Montana. More specifically, the game is a black market econ simulator in the tradition of Drug Wars—a buy-low-sell-high…
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