Outside the Beltway

Big victories for advocates of marijuana legalization.

Not surprisingly a Federal Judge has blocked New Jersey’s latest effort to legalize sports gaming. As a matter of policy, though, there’s no reason it shouldn’t be legal to place wagers on sporting events.

The Ezra Klein-less Wonkblog makes us feel good about our drinking habits.

The Grey Lady sees the light on a major part of the War On Drugs.

Is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act itself an unconstitutional Establishment of Religion barred by the First Amendment? There’s a compelling argument that it is.

Too regularly engage in “bedtime procrastination,” creating a vicious cycle.

A supposed conservative calls for massive increases in taxes on alcohol.

Electronic payments are convenient but sometimes there’s nothing better than money in your pocket.

Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is reportedly dead of a drug overdose at the age of 46.

Tonight, the American political system stops to engage in the biggest waste of time ever invented.

Many of America’s great writers were alcoholics.

Marijuana legalization is an issue that unites people across the political aisle.

The false choice that is rampant in drug warrior thinking is the main problem when it comes to good policy.

From Florida, a small victory for Fourth Amendment rights.

The latest news on the marijuana legalization front has led David Brooks and others to go into a completely pathetic panic.

When it comes to thinks like Mike Bloomberg’s large-sized soda ban, most Americans prefer to just say no.

80 years ago, Prohibition ended. However, we are still making the same mistakes that were made from 1920 to 1933.

Guess what’s coming to the dinner table.