The survey estimates that 7.5 percent of America adults use illegally produced fentanyl each year, 25 times the rate indicated by a government-sponsored survey.
Even when they are less patently ridiculous, the metrics of success favored by government officials make little sense.
Bondi said the president's drug policy prevented the deaths of 75 percent of Americans, in just his first 100 days.
The president's bizarre insistence that Kilmar Abrego Garcia "had MS-13 tattooed" on "his knuckles" makes him seem like a confused old man.
"All these government programs that regulate and control, they institutionalize mediocrity at best," argues Yaron Brook, head of the Ayn Rand Institute.
"I blew a zero, so now you're trying to think I smoked weed?” Tayvin Galanakis asked the officer who arrested him in 2022. “That's what's going on. You can't do that, man.”
Using the military to wage the drug war in Mexico raises practical and constitutional issues.
A Mississippi mom was charged with a felony years after she gave birth for drug use early in her pregnancy.
The state legalized medical marijuana but banned dispensary owners from advertising. Now, one owner is taking the fight to the Supreme Court.
Plus: New York state cut off from federal funding, Phil Magness on tariffs for JAQ, and more...
Authors James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber discuss their new book Microdosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance.
The researchers found that drug seizures in San Francisco were associated with a substantial increase in fatal opioid overdoses.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Jill Parrish emphasizes that religious freedom must protect "unpopular or unfamiliar religious groups" as well as "popular or familiar ones."
How pot bureaucrats used legal weed to push their social justice agenda
If tariffs are a poor method of collecting revenue or strengthening trade, they're even less effective at stopping the flow of illegal drugs.
Remember the bee apocalypse? The U.S. reversed that trend. What other trends can we reverse?
As part of a broader policy shift, the government plans to "start from scratch" regarding the permits.
Fogel's story closely mirrored that of Brittney Griner's. But he did not receive the same urgency from the Biden administration, even though he was arrested six months prior.
The agency's low points, from working with child sex abusers to enabling drug trafficking
The bill would permanently schedule fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I drugs—and impede therapeutic research.
Many people depicted in a supposedly "groundbreaking" book on psychedelics and religion are now speaking out against it.
Researchers gave psilocybin to two dozen religious clergy. Was it guided by science, religion, or some awkward combination?
After promising to stop the flow of drugs during his first term, the president blames foreign officials for his failure.
The president can cite meaningless "adequate steps," ambiguous drug seizure numbers, and a decline in drug deaths that began before he took office.
Pam Bondi cracked down on "pill mills" in Florida. The result was increased consumption of black-market alternatives.
Drug warriors deserve blame rather than credit for their role in recent overdose trends.
Local news reports detail how Polk County, Minnesota, charges drivers and petty offenders with drug-free zone violations like no other county in the state.
Two new meta-analyses make a case for individualistic approaches to puberty blockers and hormone treatments, driven by patients, parents, and doctors rather than the state.
In this POV haunted house film from the Ocean's 11 director, the camera plays the ghost.
Fulfilling a campaign promise to libertarians and the bitcoin community, the Silk Road founder's life sentence without parole is now over.
The evangelical Christian argues that drug legalization is the conservative thing to do.
Recent election results show the drug war’s punitive mentality still appeals to many Americans, even in blue states.
Patrick Darnell Daniels Jr. was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for violating a federal law that bars drug users from owning firearms.
Matthew Livelsberger’s alleged manifesto highlights an infamous U.S. drug raid.
Voters overwhelmingly favored the new policy, which a former state legislator unsuccessfully tried to block.
Although marijuana prohibition has collapsed in one state after another, Congress has yet to take even the modest step that Carter recommended back in 1977.
How cops, politicians, and bureaucrats tried to dodge responsibility in 2024
The House Ethics Committee's findings, combined with Gaetz's lack of relevant experience, again raise the question of why Donald Trump picked him for attorney general.
Pharmacological Perennialism crossed paths with the Catholic Church at a previously unreported "holy meeting."
Using force to make people give up drugs is both dangerous and morally wrong.
While a federal crackdown reduced opioid prescriptions, the number of opioid-related deaths soared.
Brandy Moore, who stopped using meth midway through her pregnancy, was charged with "aggravated domestic violence" because she decided not to have an abortion.
One 2022 study found that 91 percent of women given fentanyl in their epidurals later tested positive for the drug.
If stopping drugs from entering the country is as straightforward as the president-elect implies, why didn't he do it during his first term?
Since the president-elect refuses to admit that levies on imports are taxes paid by Americans, he sees no downside to raising them.
Though he commuted some drug offenders' sentences, Biden never delivered on the rest of his drug reform promises.
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