Yesterday Maine voters, by a margin of 59 percent to 41 percent, approved Question 5, a ballot initiative that expands the conditions covered by the state's medical marijuana law and establishes a system of state-licensed dispen...

Louisiania Gov. Bobby Jindal's recent health care proposals in the Washington Post drew a mixed response from free-market commentators, including Reason's own Peter Suderman and the Cato Institute's Michael Cannon, ...

More and more, I find myself wondering if Michael Steele's tenure at the RNC is actually a rather involved ploy to combat the perception that Republicans are manipulative, evil, rigorously planned, hyper-disciplined political mast...

Last March, Sally Harpold, an Indiana grandmother of triplets, bought two boxes of cold medication in less than a week. Together, the two boxes contained 3.6 grams of pseudoephedrine, putting her in violation of the state's methamphetamine-fighti...

California NORML reports that the Drug Enforcement Administration participated in raids this week on 14 medical marijuana dispensaries in San Diego County and that two of the 31 people arrested will face federal charges that carry mandatory minimum s...

Remember when President George W. Bush limited federal funding of new embryonic stem cell lines back when the 21st century was yet young? In part President Bush imposed his limitations because, as he explained: I also...

If President Barack Obama was thinking straight, he would regard Climategate, especially its timing, not as a great setback for his global warming agenda—but a great godsend. Why? As Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia...

Yesterday a federal judge in St. Louis sentenced BetOnSports, which just a few years ago billed itself as "the largest online wagering company in the world," to probation and a $28 million fine that, per A.P., "lawyers on both sides...

Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner says Americans are starting "to save again, after a long period where people were not putting enough aside against the risk of a recession or a job loss." The Associated Press writes, "The U.S....

The Miami Herald's Dan Le Batard reveals the really tragic outcome of the Tiger Woods sex scandal: It has unleashed Dan Le Batard to write sentences like this: The rules changed on Tiger Woods in mid-swing, and it had to...