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...

Commenter Pope Jimbo points us to a censorship* controversy at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Director** of social media Kurt Greenbaum recently ran a Friday thumbsucker asking commenters to name the "strangest things" they had ever eaten. ...

Horde Hoard stuffing this Thanksgiving. The Senate version of the Affordable Healthcare for Americans Act has passed out of committee by a vote of 60-39. After the Turkey Day vacation, the Senate will reconvene for floor...

Staffers in the Los Angeles and Washington offices of Reason Foundation, the nonprofit publisher of Reason magazine, Reason.com, and Reason.tv say thanks to the more-than-600 donors who pledged over $55,000 in the fight for "Free Minds and...

The Politico digs up enough stories of internecine fighting amongst the loose bunch of organizations supposedly responsible for, or furthering in specific locations, the Tea Party movement to generate a semi-convincing trend story that...

New Moon, the latest installment in the wildly successful Twilight series, opens in movie theaters today. And as Noah Berlatsy writes, it's about much more than just vampires and werewolves.