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On Tuesday I noted USA Today ’s cover story on the prospects for marijuana law reform. Three recent legislative developments reinforce the impression of growing tolerance (or at least waning repression): On March 2, Hawaii’s Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill that would eliminate criminal penalties for possessing up to an ounce of marijuana, currently a misdemeanor punishable by up to 30 days in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.

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Marijuana Decriminalization Advances

Even if Democrats extract the votes to put ObamaCare over the top, writes Shikha Dalmia, it will at best be a Pyrrhic victory for them. Regardless of the outcome, this monstrosity might cost the Democrats the Congress this November, ruin the party for a long time, and prematurely render Barack Obama a lame duck president for the rest of his term. View this article.

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New at Reason: Shikha Dalmia on the ObamaCare Quagmire

From our April issue, Senior Editor Michael C. Moynihan reports on the scene in Massachusetts as he followed Republican state legislator Scott Brown and Democratic gaffe master and Attorney General Martha Coakley in their race for the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat.

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New at Reason: Michael C. Moynihan on the Revolutionary Takeover of Ted Kennedy’s Senate Seat

As soon as the Supreme Court decision came down in January ruling that the corporate spending ban violated free-speech rights, a number of leading Democrats demanded action to undo this unconscionable wrong. But as Steve Chapman explains, imposing new restrictions on speech is no way to enhance democracy.

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New at Reason: Steve Chapman on the Misguided Liberal Response to Citizens United

When men like Joe Stack and John Bedell launch their kamikaze attacks, you won’t learn much by trying to discern if the would-be killers are “right-wing” or “left-wing,” writes Managing Editor Jesse Walker. They have less in common with the organized right or left than they do with George Metesky’s one-man bombing campaign against Con Edison, Samuel Byck’s feckless attempt to assassinate Richard Nixon, or the Luddite crusade of the Unabomber.

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New at Reason: Jesse Walker on Lone Wolves

There seems to be growing optimism among some Republicans that if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finagles the votes to pass Obamacare, the GOP triumphantly will sweep into power and immediately repeal it.

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New at Reason: David Harsanyi on the GOP Repealing ObamaCare

“We allow the insurance industry to run wild in this country,” President Obama declared on Monday. “We can’t have a system that works better for the insurance companies than it does for the American people.” Despite this rhetoric, Senior Editor Jacob Sullum argues, Obama’s plan to tame health insurers would boost their business, protect them from competition, and guarantee their profits, all at the expense of consumers and taxpayers

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New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on Obama’s Fake Fight With Insurers

The Cayman Island Sea Turtle Farm was established by entrepreneur and libertarian hero Antony Fisher in 1968. Unfortunately, the farm went bankrupt when the trade in sea turtle products was banned internationally. Now a government-owned corporation, the farm is a huge tourist attraction supplying turtle meat to the local market; it also releases thousands of turtles into the wild.

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New at Reason: Ronald Bailey on the Deliciousness of Sea Turtle Steak

From our April issue, Editor in Chief Matt Welch looks at President Barack Obama’s slippery relationship with the truth.

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New at Reason: Matt Welch on Obama’s Habit of Telling Untruths