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Jacob Sullum is a journalist who serves as Managing Editor of "Reason" magazine. Sullum has also worked at "National Review."

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Calorie-Count Blues

The most conspicuous effect you will see from Presi dent Obama's health-care overhaul won't be at your doctor's office or the hospital. It will be at your local Burger King. That's assuming the Senate goes along with a provision, already approved by ...

From JACOB SULLUM, New York Post,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Burger King,  Starbucks Corp,  McDonald's,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate

DEA Still Erroneously Citing the AMA on Medical Marijuana

On Tuesday I noted that the Drug Enforcement Administration, apparently in response to an emailing campaign organized by Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), had removed from one of its webpages the claim that "the American Medical ...

From JACOB SULLUM, Reason,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Drug Enforcement Administration

Maybe We Need More Tax Cheats in High Places

Americans for Limited Government wants the Senate Finance Committee to block the appointment of Lael Brainard as undersecretary of the treasury for international affairs because of her imperfect compliance with the tax laws. The Associated Press ...

From JACOB SULLUM, Reason,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  United States Department of the Treasury,  Barack Obama,  Bill Wilson,  Tom Daschle

Joose It Up! (While You Can!)

Meter's still runnin' on my bet. reply to this and to get involved in regrettable sexual incidents. reply to this when you'd prefer to chew off your arm rather than wake the beast you brought home the night before. reply to this An ...

From JACOB SULLUM, Hit and Run,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  US Food and Drug Administration

The Salvia Ban Wagon

A couple of years ago, John Bulloch watched an alarming report on an Atlanta TV station about an exotic-sounding drug called Salvia divinorum. Bulloch had never heard of the plant, a psychoactive relative of sage that the Mazatec Indians of Oaxaca, ...

From JACOB SULLUM, Reason,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  eBay Inc.,  Virgin Mary,  Harvard University

NIAAA Official Says Alcoholism 'Isn't Usually' a 'Chronic, Relapsing Disease'

The Los Angeles Times notices that people can overcome drinking problems without abstaining from alcohol for the rest of their lives. More important, the Times quotes Mark Willenbring, director of treatment and recovery research at the National ...

From JACOB SULLUM, Hit and Run,  19 Nov 2009

How Could He Have Strangled Her Without a Permit to Carry a Handgun?

In an effort to rebut the idea that allowing law-abiding Americans to carry handguns in public helps prevent crime, the Violence Policy Center has begun compiling a list of homicides committed by people with carry permits. "Concealed handgun ...

From JACOB SULLUM, Reason,  18 Nov 2009

Menu Mandate’s Missing Math

The most conspicuous effect you will see from President Obama’s health care overhaul won’t be at your doctor’s office or the hospital. It will be at your local Burger King. That’s assuming the Senate goes along with a provision, already approved ...

From JACOB SULLUM, Reason,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Burger King,  Starbucks Corp,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate,  Department of Health

Jacob Sullum: Menu Mandate's Missing Math

The most conspicuous effect you will see from President Obama's health care overhaul won't be at your doctor's office or the hospital. It will be at your local Burger King. That's assuming the Senate goes along with a provision, already approved by the ...

From JACOB SULLUM, Town Hall,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jacob Sullum,  Burger King,  Starbucks Corp,  McDonald's,  Barack Obama

DEA Stops Citing AMA on Medical Marijuana

Speaking of evolving positions on medical marijuana, it looks like the DEA has stopped telling the public "the American Medical Association recommends that marijuana remain a Schedule I controlled substance," a legal category that signifies a ...

From JACOB SULLUM, Reason,  17 Nov 2009

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