Big Marijuana’s Long Shadow of Destruction

On July 15, 2026, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and Department of Justice (DOJ) officially wrapped up a historic set of hearings on rescheduling marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III. The dramatic change would reclassify the drug as now having an accepted medical use and a low risk of abuse. However, marijuana itself has never been accepted for medical use and is overwhelmingly abused […]

“Under-Regulated and Unaccountable”: The State of America’s IVF Industry

When I sat down with Emma Waters, Senior Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Technology and the Human Person, I expected to learn about policy. What I didn’t expect was her jarringly accurate description of the state of American fertility law. “The best way to categorize the governance of the fertility industry and of IVF in particular,” she told me, “is that it’s under-regulated […]