What Joe Rogan’s hemp conversation reveals about Washington picking winners
On a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Sen. Rand Paul surprised listeners (and the host) by explaining why some marijuana businesses have sided with the alcohol and pharmaceutical industries in lobbying Congress to crack down on hemp products. The reason isn't public safety. It's competition. Hemp and marijuana are variants of the s ...
Alaska breweries win First Amendment challenge
When Jessie Janes opened Alaska's first hard kombucha brewery, he imagined more than just a tasting room. He envisioned a community space where Alaskans and tourists alike could gather for live entertainment, games, conversation, and locally made drinks. Jessie opened Zip Kombucha in the heart of Anchorage after 12 years in the U.S. Army, a proj ...
The Carolina Journal : Let nurses fix NC’s health care shortage
A series of new billboard messages along I-77 outside Statesville both call attention to the problem of declining access to health care across North Carolina and propose a solution: Rural America is Dying. We Need Nurses. Not Government Roadblocks. These bright orange billboards stand in stark contrast to the surrounding rural North Carolina ...
A win in Montana Supreme Court for the right to earn a living
In Kalispell, Montana, Parker Noland thought he was doing what young entrepreneurs are supposed to do: spot a problem, build a solution, and get to work. After a medical discharge brought Parker back home from the Army, he set his sights on starting a small debris-hauling business targeting underserved construction sites around Flathead County. ...
Ninth Circuit rejects campus censorship after PLF amicus brief
In January 2022, longtime computer science professor at the University of Washington, Stuart Reges, posted his course syllabus. Buried among the usual course policies was a parody of the university's recommended "land acknowledgment"—a statement recognizing that the campus sits on land once inhabited by Indigenous tribes—in which Reges question ...
Kansas City Star : Kansas Nursing Board punished me for speaking about dementia. That’s unjust
As a licensed geriatric nurse practitioner and former tenured professor, I have served Kansans for more than three decades. I have seen thousands of patients and have never had a complaint filed against me. But in November 2024, the Kansas State Board of Nursing punished me for giving public talks on dementia, claiming I was practicing nursing w ...
On the anniversary of the Bill of Rights, we have the Anti-Federalists to thank
On this day 234 years ago, the Bill of Rights was officially ratified. With two centuries of examples showing us how willing governments are to ignore even these enumerated rights, it's astonishing that those first ten amendments almost didn't make it into the Constitution at all. If not for a small group of determined Anti-Federalists—and the ...
Reason : They Built a Hemp Business in Good Faith but Washington Is About To Crush It
As the Senate prepared to vote on the funding bill to reopen the federal government earlier this month, Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) warned that passing the legislation would "regulate the hemp industry to death." Buried deep inside the continuing resolution was a provision that would completely reverse nearly seven years of industry progress—and pot ...
Proxy discrimination necessitates heightened scrutiny
Two years ago, the Supreme Court struck down Harvard and UNC's discriminatory racial preferences as unconstitutional, banning affirmative action in college admissions. But in the wake of that decision, schools and government entities often resorted to discrimination by proxy, including proxies for race like ZIP Code and income. In a new law revi ...