Four Months After Biden Promised Marijuana Pardons, He Has Not Issued Any
The president reaped political benefits with his pre-election proclamation but has yet to follow through.
The president reaped political benefits with his pre-election proclamation but has yet to follow through.
Is it just to punish the many for the excesses of the few?
Because legislators omitted a crucial letter, there is no straightforward way to downgrade convictions for offenses that are no longer felonies.
As Biden mentioned fentanyl deaths in his State of the Union address, Republicans called on him to close the border. But "open borders" aren't to blame for overdoses.
The government argued that marijuana users have no Second Amendment rights because they are dangerous, unvirtuous, and untrustworthy.
Gov. Andy Beshear issued a conditional pardon aimed at protecting people who use marijuana for medical purposes from criminal prosecution.
The senator bemoans the "cannabis crisis" he helped maintain by blocking the SAFE Banking Act.
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As the drug war retreats, individualist approaches to substance use and abuse will make us all better off.
Andrew Tatarsky and Maia Szalavitz push individualist approaches to substance abuse as the drug war retreats.
Like other authorizations for the use of military force—or AUMFs—it would be an unnecessary, unwise expansion of executive power.
A North Carolina detective may have inhaled a significant amount during a drug bust.
The prospects in the next session, when Republicans will control the House, are iffy.
Stanford University psychologist Keith Humphreys misconstrues libertarianism and ignores its critique of prohibition's deadly impact.
The year’s highlights in buck passing feature petulant politicians, brazen bureaucrats, careless cops, loony lawyers, and junky journalists.
S.B. 58, which emulates an initiative that Colorado voters approved last month, would legalize the use of five psychoactive substances found in fungi and plants.
Although both bills have broad bipartisan support, they never got a vote in the Senate and were excluded from the omnibus spending bill.
Q&A with the co-author of Raising the Bar: A Bottle-by-Bottle Guide to Mixing Masterful Cocktails at Home.
Q&A with Jacob Grier, co-author of Raising the Bar: A Bottle-by-Bottle Guide to Mixing Masterful Cocktails at Home.
The legal distinction between the smoked and snorted forms of cocaine never made sense.
The attorney general's memo to prosecutors is an improvement, but it is no substitute for legislation.
The Senate majority leader is suddenly keen to pass legislation that he portrayed as a threat to broader reform.
The agency is determined to ban the flavors that former smokers overwhelmingly prefer. For the children.
Another officer claims to have been laid out just by being close to the drug. That’s not how it works.
A study credits "an overall lower police search rate," the result of new priorities and legal constraints.
The country's strategy ignores the failures of prohibition.
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Naloxone could be available without a prescription by spring.
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While Griner's release is welcome news, it's important to remember the thousands of Americans imprisoned for drug offenses here in the U.S.
Making it easier for scientists to study marijuana is a far cry from the liberalization that most Americans want.
While Biden issued pardons and ordered a review of marijuana's Schedule I status, he still supports the federal ban on weed.
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Nearly 20 months after the state legalized recreational use, no licensed pot shops have opened, but the black market is booming.
To be eligible for a pardon, patients will have to obtain cannabis from other states and document their diagnoses and purchases.
Legalization is unlikely in the foreseeable future, but banking reform and expungement could be feasible.
By making e-cigarettes less appealing, it will discourage smokers from switching to a much less hazardous nicotine habit.
Lighter regulation is one likely explanation.
Proposition 122 is the broadest liberalization of psychedelic policy ever enacted in the United States.
Two more states legalized recreational marijuana on Tuesday, while decriminalization of five natural psychedelics looks like a winner in Colorado.
Some reformers opposed the initiative, deeming it anti-competitive and needlessly prescriptive.
A 2020 initiative was overturned by the courts, and this year's version was rejected by voters.
Early polling showed a majority favored the change, but support fell in the face of opposition from leading Republicans and conservative groups.
Since approving medical marijuana by a wide margin in 2016, North Dakotans have said no twice to allowing recreational use.
Voters approved a constitutional amendment allowing adults 21 or older to use cannabis and instructing legislators to authorize commercial production and distribution.
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The damage done by the original guidelines, including undertreatment and abrupt dose reductions, could have been avoided if the CDC had not presumed to advise doctors on how to treat pain.
The ballot initiative also would authorize state-licensed "healing centers" where adults could obtain psychedelics for supervised use.