Jacob Sullum recounts the story of a New Mexico woman that was taken against her will and fruitlessly probed by drug warriors and their ‘medical’ helpers.
Carrying cash is not a crime. But that didn't stop the federal government from seizing $11,000 from Charles Clarke. Charles, a 24-year-old college student, was flying home after visiting family and friends in Cincinnati, when he lost his entire life savings to civil forfeiture.
The disconnect between the classification of state-sanctioned cannabis and the federal prohibition of cannabis has created another impossible situation for the law to resolve. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on June 15th that companies can legally fire employees who use cannabis.
Even in one of the country’s most marijuana-friendly states, smoking pot off the job and away from work can still get an employee fired. That was the unanimous conclusion of the Colorado Supreme Court on Monday, in a closely watched workplace lawsuit involving ...
Yarrow Kubrin was recently to be sentenced to four years in prison. His crime? He was growing medical cannabis in complete compliance with state laws.
What to do with the prisoners of a failed war? Since 2012, when voters in Colorado and Washington approved the tax and sale of recreational marijuana, the cognitive dissonance of America's drug penalties has become even more absurd.
Freddie Gray's criminal background of several drug related offenses has been being tossed around quite a bit by people who bring it up as though it somehow justifies what happened to him.
