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UCLA Public Policy Prof Mark Kleiman has a post up on his blog about a study describing the ability of psilocybin mushrooms to produce "mystical" experiences. My only concern with the post is the way Prof. Kleiman characterizes the law around this.

Federal Sentencing Guidelines Contributing to Mass Incarceration Defendants who are charged with a federal crime will generally be facing much harsher penalties, with lengthier jail sentences, compared with a defendant who is facing similar criminal charges on the state level.  One recent.

Constitutional protections are supposed to ensure that no defendant is forced to submit to a search without a warrant, except in exigent circumstances.  Unfortunately, drunk driving defendants nationwide are effectively being forced to submit to warrantless searches. The U.S. Supreme Court is.

Texting while driving is a growing trend, and a national epidemic, quickly becoming one of the country’s top killers. Drivers assume they can handle texting while driving and remain safe, but the numbers don’t lie. Texting While Driving Causes: 1. 1,600,000 accidents.

Can Presidential Pardons Subvert New York Law? When Trump pardoned Scooter Libby, was he sending a message to his friends that they should keep their mouths shut and the will be beneficiaries as well? Before Eric Schneiderman resigned, he dug into the.

Earlier this month the SEC, in the first case of its kind against a municipality, ordered the City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to cease and desist from violating the anti-fraud provisions of the federal securities laws. While the circumstances surrounding this order are.

On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court denied Dr. Ali Shaygan’s petition for review of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit’s reversal of the trial court’s award of attorneys’ fees to Dr. Shaygan based upon misconduct by Federal prosecutors.

A 66-year-old man in Nevada reportedly drove his vehicle to the grocery store despite feeling as though he had a seizure coming on. The man had a seizure while he was driving and he caused a motor vehicle accident that killed two.

Grits For Breakfast ran a post this weekend on the way the criminalization of gambling in Texas functions as "an example of irrationally punitive criminal justice policies actually making us less safe." Scott writes that Houston has between 300 and 400 illegal.

Suppose you could design an ideal system for drug regulation, one that would involve the use of regulated markets to control drugs rather than relying primarily on the criminal justice system. Under such a system, powerful recreational drugs, like heroin and methamphetamine,.