Don't Be Afraid of Those 6,000 Felons Just Released From Prison
Families Against Mandatory Minimum's Kevin Ring makes the case for even more wide-ranging and far-reaching sentencing reform.
Families Against Mandatory Minimum's Kevin Ring makes the case for even more wide-ranging and far-reaching sentencing reform.
It will feel even better the next time around with the full force of a 58 percent majority moving on from one of the great failures of the past 100 years.
Only the handicapper general would do such a thing.
The Iranian government traffics in drugs and executes drug dealers. What's not to love?
Leave them kids alone
Can you guess who Smart Alternatives to Marijuana (Project SAM) thinks are the best candidates? Probably, even if you're tripping balls right now.
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Practical suggestions for making it easier to investigate the therapeutic properties of cannabis
Virgin CEO Richard Branson leaks document to Drug Policy Alliance.
How the government makes drugs more dangerous
A North Dakota drug task force bullied a college student into working for them. Then he turned up dead.
A new book argues that black America helped pave the way for the War on Drugs.
The more successful drug warriors are, the more dangerous drugs become.
But even the New Jersey governor concedes "the war on drugs has been a failure."
California could become the fifth state to misidentify suicide as a medical treatment.
The former drug czar thinks the solution to the "heroin epidemic" is simple: "attack the supply."
Bill Bennett wants to "bring back the war on drugs."
Fear of meth, bath salts, salvia, MDMA, and heroin correspond loosely, at best, to actual trends in drug use.
The presumptive Democratic nominee promises to eliminate addiction once and for all.
"President Obama, Commute Sharanda Jones' Sentence."
Over-the-top, larger-than-life, waste of drug warrior dollars.
Teens deserve privacy.
Heroin addicts directed to treatment, not jails and courtrooms.
How "antirave" policies make sure more drug users get hurt.
Provisions prevent feds from spending on interference with state hemp-farming programs or hemp crop transport.
U.K. wants to be able to ban chemicals more quickly. That's going to be a disaster.
Preachy, hyperbolic, often incorrect
Preachy, hyperbolic, often incorrect
Court will be able to depart from guidelines on some drug cases.
A former drug czar's dazed and confused defense of marijuana prohibition
Even as more states say yes, Washington remains a barrier.
Will the libertarian-leaning presidential candidate shed the differences that make him interesting?
No, but he leans further in that direction than any other Republican senator or major-party presidential candidate.
John Walters praised Chris Christie's comments about tax dollars from legal pot sales being "blood money." Then things got...interesting.
And that time he brushed off a father whose daughter benefits from medical marijuana...
Criminalizing dependency is counterproductive and unconstitutional.
Drug addiction is not caused by the effects of drugs alone.