Drug War
Nullification Through Human Action: Record Number of People Using Marijuana Despite Federal Prohibition
More and more people are nullifying federal marijuana prohibition through individual human action. Cannabis use has risen to record levels with more people now smoking marijuana than cigarettes. According to a Gallup poll, 16 percent of Americans reported using...
Federal Marijuana Cases Drop as More States Legalize Despite Federal Prohibition
While the federal government maintains a complete prohibition on cannabis, it’s mostly a lot of bark with less and less bite. Federal marijuana prosecutions have steadily decreased as more and more states legalize marijuana. There were 1,005 federal marijuana...
Step by Step for Liberty: Cannabis Edition
In the early days of the state-level movement to legalize marijuana, we often got opposition from a surprising camp – libertarians. You would think libertarians would be thrilled with laws rolling back cannabis prohibition, but for many, it wasn’t enough....
Neither Necessary nor Proper
It was sixteen years ago last month that the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of Gonzales v. Raich (2005), ruled that the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801) did not exceed the power of Congress under the Commerce Clause as applied to the intrastate cultivation...