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The Big One
One percent of all U.S. dairy farms produce 35 percent of America’s milk. One American milk cow produces an average of 22,000 pounds of milk per year—up from 8,000 pounds per year in 1965. One percent...
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Marijuana Buffers Pain of Social Exclusion
Why smoke marijuana? Users would probably reply that numbed-out bliss is its own reward. But if smoothing out the harsh edges of reality is your goal, what bruises are you attempting to avoid? Newly...
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Building a Legal Marijuana Industry From the Ground Up
If all goes according to plan, by the end of this year farmers across Washington State will begin large-scale cultivation of a commodity they’ve never been allowed to mass-produce before—marijuana....
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Conservatives Say Yes to Cannabis
It's getting harder and harder to find people who are against legalizing marijuana, even in the reddest of states. As Washington and Colorado gear up for voter-approved full legalization in the coming...
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Late Nights, Long Drives, and Too Much Speed
Driving under the influence of any drug, anywhere, is no joke. Alcohol and weed slow a driver’s reaction time, and speed and coke can impair a driver’s judgment in all sorts of ways—not least of which...
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The Straight Dope on Straight Dope
Over the past year, while many policy enthusiasts have been rightly focused on the rollout of the Affordable Care Act (one of the most substantial changes to domestic policy in decades), a possibly...
View ArticleWhat to Watch for: Next Year’s Biggest Stories in Politics
Well, 2013 was a fun year for politics, wasn’t it? But it ended like a cliffhanger. We have so many exciting and unanswered questions to look forward to. Such as… WILL THE GOP EAT ITSELF? The...
View ArticleLegal Marijuana’s Money Problems
As marijuana moves toward legalization in some areas of the United States, a unique kind of crime wave is following. In November 2013 alone, two masked, armed men robbed a dispensary in Longmont,...
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The War on Drugs Is a War on Black People
Young black adults are less likely than whites to use marijuana, but extraordinarily more likely to be arrested for its use, according to a new report by the American Civil Liberties Union. This is old...
View ArticleHow to Implement a Policy You Hate: Lessons From the Legalization of Marijuana
Last week, I attended a roundtable discussion at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law that assessed how the rollout of legal marijuana has been going in Colorado since January 1st. The panel...
View ArticleThe Armenian Power Gang, Hollywood Hellions
This Valentine’s Day, the Justice Department announced that 40-year-old Andranik Aloyan, of Los Angeles, had been convicted for his role in one of the largest racketeering conspiracies in the country’s...
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How Drug Money Is Funding Drug Education
On February 19, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper did something unexpected. He announced a state spending plan for nearly $100 million, with the vast majority of the funding devoted to improving drug...
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Rocky Mountain High or Reefer Madness? The Risks of Legal Pot in Colorado
I walked through clouds of marijuana smoke Friday night to get to the Denver Nuggets basketball game. The sweet smell lingering in the air reminded me less of a family event and more of the time I saw...
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We Try More Drugs Than Anyone Else, and 9 Other Ways Addiction Is Different...
We Americans like to think of ourselves as exceptional, the land of the free and the home of the brave, the City on the Hill and all that. When it comes to the politics and culture of drugs, we are...
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What Happens When Penalties for Pot Smoking Are Reduced? Hardly Anything
As Washington becomes the second American state to legalize recreational use of marijuana, and Washington, D.C., moves toward decriminalization of the drug, critics worry that these changes in the law...
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