The 'Monster' Isn't the Drug, It's the Prohibition
Intoxicating drugs never do as much damage as the laws that impotently attempt to eradicate them.
Intoxicating drugs never do as much damage as the laws that impotently attempt to eradicate them.
There is no solid evidence that P2P meth is more dangerous than pseudoephedrine-derived meth and no reason to think it would be.
The late California senator always seemed to err on the side of more government power and less individual freedom.
Legal restrictions on pseudoephedrine have not reduced meth use, but they have driven people with colds or allergies toward substitutes that seem to be completely ineffective.
The attorney general's memo to prosecutors is an improvement, but it is no substitute for legislation.
An increasing number of overdoses were the result of fentanyl and methamphetamine, each of which have proliferated amid government crackdowns.
Whatever this system is, it is not pro-life.
Three of the officers were denied qualified immunity, but accountability is a long way off.
Iowa smoke shop owners say the tax would be "a ban without being an outright ban."
"This is something that we knew would be provocative," said the state's Republican governor.
Government incompetence made an innocent man spend months in jail and lose both of his jobs.
A new RAND report puts spending on marijuana, heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine at $146 billion in 2016.
The officer who cooked up the story adds that he collects "a lot of great (and incredibly raw) intelligence" by reading comment threads.
The number of past-month users was up last year from 2016, but it was still lower than in several previous years.
Is a mom who passed drugs along to her infant via breastfeeding a real community threat?
While overall drug sentences decline, federal methamphetamine offenders still aren't benefiting from the last decade of criminal justice reforms.
Harris County Sheriff's Office credited discovery to deputies' "powers of observation," but blamed the error on field tests.
The cops were looking for a meth dealer who had not lived there for at least a year.
Rodrigo Duterte echoes American drug warriors.
The Philippine president is not alone in thinking drug offenders should be killed.
Are you ready for this? People are taking drugs and then having sex.
Fear of meth, bath salts, salvia, MDMA, and heroin correspond loosely, at best, to actual trends in drug use.
Dealers turn to drones for deliveries.
Reproductive-rights and drug-policy groups are calling for an end to the harsher sentencing of pregnant women charged with drug crimes.
The results of meth hysteria have been uglier than a tweeker in an anti-drug ad.
A new report shows how the hazards of "the most dangerous drug in America" have been grossly exaggerated.
Alleged drug dealer boasts of North Korea's role in high-grade meth he was selling, according to federal indictment
Police thought Jolly Ranchers were meth
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