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FDA Advisers Overwhelmingly Oppose Approval of MDMA As a Psychotherapeutic Catalyst

MDMA Jacob Sullum | 6.5.2024 4:20 PM Efforts to make MDMA legally available as a psychotherapeutic catalyst hit a...

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Donald Trump and Hunter Biden Face the Illogical Consequences of an Arbitrary Gun Law

Second Amendment Jacob Sullum | 6.5.2024 12:01 AM On the heels of a New York conviction that stripped Donald Trump...

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Hunter Biden's Trial Highlights a Widely Flouted, Haphazardly Enforced, and Constitutionally Dubious Gun Law

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Trump's Conviction Requires Him To Surrender His Guns. Civil Libertarians Should Be Troubled.

Second Amendment Jacob Sullum | 6.2.2024 7:40 PM Last September, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung caused a...

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The Prosecution's Story About Trump Featured Several Logically Impossible Claims

Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 5.31.2024 1:35 PM Last January, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg summed up his...

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Trump's Conviction Suggests Jurors Bought the Prosecution's Dubious 'Election Fraud' Narrative

Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 5.30.2024 8:00 PM After deliberating for a little more than a day, a Manhattan jury on...

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These Strange Bedfellows Want SCOTUS To Remind the 5th Circuit That Journalism Is Not a Crime

First Amendment Jacob Sullum | 5.30.2024 5:10 PM Sylvia Gonzalez, a former Castle Hills, Texas, city council member,...

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Trump Jury Instructions Invite Conviction Based on a Hodgepodge of Dubious Theories

Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 5.29.2024 5:25 PM To convert a single hush payment into 34 state felonies in the New...

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Trump Decries Disproportionate Drug Penalties While Threatening Dealers With Death

Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 5.29.2024 12:01 AM Joe Biden "was a key figure in passing the 1994 Crime Bill, which...

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Prosecutors Say Trump Tried to 'Hoodwink the American Voter,' Which Is Not a Crime

Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 5.28.2024 5:50 PM During his closing argument in Donald Trump's criminal trial in...

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In Hawaii, Permission To Use Medical Marijuana Precludes Permission To Own a Gun

Second Amendment Jacob Sullum | 5.27.2024 3:35 PM Back in 2017, Honolulu's police chief abandoned a contentious plan...

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Prosecutors Are Still Hedging on Exactly What 'Crime' Trump Tried To 'Aid' or 'Conceal'

Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 5.24.2024 3:10 PM Donald Trump is charged with 34 felonies in New York because he...

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Trump's Anti-Crime Agenda Contradicts His Criticism of Biden's Legislative Record

Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 5.23.2024 7:10 PM During his 2020 presidential campaign, Donald Trump attacked Joe Biden...

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Alvin Bragg's Case Against Trump Presents a Tangle of Interacting Laws and Intent Puzzles

Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 5.22.2024 3:35 PM During four days of testimony in Donald Trump's trial, his estranged...

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Biden Decries a 'Failed Approach to Marijuana' but Sticks With It

Drug Policy Jacob Sullum | 5.22.2024 12:01 AM For half a century, critics have argued that marijuana does not belong...

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Biden Decries a 'Failed Approach to Marijuana' but Sticks With It

For half a century, critics have argued marijuana does not belong in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, a category supposedly reserved for...

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The Evidence Suggests the DEA Still Has Not Come Around on Rescheduling Marijuana

Marijuana Jacob Sullum | 5.21.2024 6:35 PM Just a few years ago, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)...

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The New York Times Implausibly Blames 'Looser' Gun Laws for a Homicide Spike That Is Now Receding

Gun Control Jacob Sullum | 5.20.2024 2:50 PM Like many other cities across the country, Columbus, Ohio, saw a spike...

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Kamala Harris Implausibly Claims Biden's Marijuana Pardons Number in the 'Tens of Thousands'

Marijuana Jacob Sullum | 5.17.2024 5:20 PM "We have pardoned tens of thousands of people with federal convictions for simple marijuana possession,"...

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Biden's Spin on Marijuana's Rescheduling Exaggerates Its Practical Impact

Marijuana Jacob Sullum | 5.16.2024 8:20 PM President Joe Biden describes the Drug Enforcement Administration's proposal to reclassify marijuana...

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The 'Heart' of Alvin Bragg's Case Against Trump Is Misdirection

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The 'Heart' of Alvin Bragg's Case Against Trump Is Misdirection

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Here Is Why a Federal Judge Rejected Hunter Biden's Second Amendment Challenge to His Gun Charges

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The Details of Stormy Daniels' Story About Sex With Trump Are Legally Irrelevant

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California Students Get $1 Million After They Were Expelled for Wearing Supposedly Racist Acne Masks

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Stormy Daniels' 'Credibility Issues' Reflect a Broader Problem With Key Witnesses Against Trump

Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 5.8.2024 4:05 PM On July 13, 2006, Stormy Daniels says, she had sex with former President Donald Trump in his suite at...

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Ron DeSantis Says Letting People Buy Cultivated Meat Is Like Forcing Them To Eat Bugs

Ron DeSantis Jacob Sullum | 5.8.2024 12:01 AM It is not yet clear whether the alternative protein products known...

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Minnesota's Indefinite Detention of Sex Offenders Is Ineffective As Well As Unjust

Sex Crimes Jacob Sullum | 5.6.2024 5:25 PM Twenty states authorize civil commitment of sex offenders who have...

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Biden Exaggerates His Work To Reform Marijuana Policy

War on Drugs Jacob Sullum | From the June 2024 issue In a campaign video directed at "young voters" that she posted...

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The New York Case Against Trump Relies on a 'Twisty' Legal Theory That Reeks of Desperation

Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 5.3.2024 4:10 PM Jurors in Donald Trump's trial at the New York County Criminal...

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A Year Before Albuquerque's Police Corruption Scandal Made Headlines, an Internal Probe Found Nothing

Corruption Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2024 1:35 PM In December 2022, the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) received a tip...

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Rescheduling Marijuana Does Not Address Today's Central Cannabis Issue

Marijuana Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2024 3:10 PM The Justice Department yesterday confirmed that the Drug Enforcement...

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Journalism Is Not a Crime, Even When It Offends the Government

First Amendment Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2024 12:01 AM WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been imprisoned in London for...

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Journalism Is Not a Crime, Even When It Offends the Government

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been imprisoned in London for five years, while Texas journalist Priscilla Villarreal was only briefly detained...

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A Texas Reporter Busted for Asking Questions Asks SCOTUS To Reject the Criminalization of Journalism

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SCOTUS Weighs the Risk of Presidential Timidity Against the Risk of Presidential Impunity

Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 4.25.2024 6:18 PM Without "absolute immunity" from criminal prosecution for their...

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The Alarming Implications of Trump's Immunity Claim

Executive Power Jacob Sullum | 4.24.2024 12:01 AM When Congress impeaches and removes a federal official, the...

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The Alarming Implications of Trump's Immunity Claim

When Congress impeaches and removes a federal official, the Constitution says, "the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to...

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Does the Constitution Protect the Right To Get High?

Drug Policy Jacob Sullum | 4.23.2024 7:00 AM The Constitution of the War on Drugs , by David Pozen, Oxford...

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Alvin Bragg's 'Election Interference' Narrative Is Nonsensical

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SCOTUS Misses a Chance To Protect Peaceful Protesters

First Amendment Jacob Sullum | 4.17.2024 12:01 AM In his last protest march, Martin Luther King Jr. led a parade of...

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SCOTUS Misses a Chance to Protect Peaceful Protesters

In his last protest march, Martin Luther King Jr. led a parade of demonstrators down Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, lending his support to...

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Most Justices Seem Skeptical of Charging Capitol Rioters With Obstructing an Official Proceeding

Capitol Riot Jacob Sullum | 4.16.2024 5:30 PM About 350 Donald Trump supporters who participated in the 2021 Capitol...

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The Best of Reason: Anti-Chinese Xenophobia Fueled America's First Drug War

War on Drugs Jacob Sullum | 4.16.2024 5:55 PM This week's featured article is "Anti-Chinese Xenophobia Fueled...

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Alvin Bragg Says Trump Tried To Conceal 'Another Crime.' What Crime?

Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 4.15.2024 1:30 PM As jury selection begins this week in the New York criminal case...

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Anti-Chinese Xenophobia Fueled America's First Drug War

War on Drugs Jacob Sullum | From the May 2024 issue Around 2 a.m. on Monday, December 6, 1875, a "posse of police"...

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Critics of the Arizona Supreme Court's Abortion Ruling Seem Confused About What Judges Are Supposed To Do

Abortion Jacob Sullum | 4.11.2024 3:15 PM When the Arizona Supreme Court resurrected a sweeping 19th-century...

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A Florida Judge Says $165,000 in Fines for 3 Minor Code Violations Is Not 'Excessive'

Excessive Fines Jacob Sullum | 4.10.2024 2:30 PM A Florida judge yesterday ruled against a Lantana homeowner who...

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Trump's Abortion Stance Is Convenient, but That Does Not Mean He's Wrong

Abortion Jacob Sullum | 4.10.2024 12:01 AM "On abortion," The New York Times claims, former President Donald Trump...

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Trump's Abortion Stance Is Convenient, But That Does Not Mean He's Wrong

"On abortion," The New York Times claims, former President Donald Trump "chose politics over principles." In reality, Trump's recent clarification of...

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