Prosecutor Extorts $300,000 Out of Alleged Drug Dealer by Threatening His Entire Family With Charges
Patrick Card's story is a case study in how the state uses civil forfeiture to try to coerce plea bargains.
Patrick Card's story is a case study in how the state uses civil forfeiture to try to coerce plea bargains.
The Supreme Court is considering what standard should apply to prescribers accused of violating the Controlled Substances Act.
Patients suffer when physicians who prescribe opioids in good faith can face decades in prison.
The bill is the latest sign of strange new respect for drugs that were once routinely depicted as menaces to body and soul.
The new Hulu miniseries promotes pernicious misconceptions about opioids, addiction, and pain treatment.
Previous efforts languished in committees.
Police seized more than $100,000 in cash from a 25-year-old Chicago woman for not correctly describing what her suitcase looked like.
Child care workers benefit from state subsidies. They’re fighting against possible cuts by encouraging regressive taxes that fuel a new drug war.
Both rulings emphasized that opioids have legitimate medical uses and concluded that drug companies could not be held responsible for abuse of their products.
Allowing Kamila Valieva to compete evokes memories of Sha'Carri Richardson, who was suspended from competition for using marijuana.
A proposed commercial by dispensary-locator company Weedmaps was sacked by NFL and NBC suits.
San Bernardino County deputies stopped the same armored-car driver twice and took nearly $1.1 million in cash owned by legal marijuana dispensaries.
Not only won’t they blow your mind, but they may even save it (sometimes legally).
The proposed guidelines emphasize the need for individualized treatment and collaboration with patients.
A federal judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order, saying the evidence of legal violations is insufficient at this point.
The actor's overdose death was a tragedy, but overzealous prosecution of the dealers who sold him the drugs will only make the problem worse.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves' grudging support for medical marijuana speaks volumes about the erosion of support for prohibition.
A medical myth that responders can overdose by touching or inhaling synthetic opioids may lead to harsher jail sentences.
Though state laws in both places have not yet adapted, consumers of "entheogenic" plants and fungi are now less likely to be arrested and prosecuted in the two cities.
The Institute for Justice argues that the seizures violated state law, federal law, and the U.S. Constitution.
Kelli Goode's civil suit is a case study in how difficult it can be to get state actors to take responsibility when they allegedly infringe on someone's rights.
A new 2022 law will punish anybody “aiding and abetting” unlicensed dealers. It will most certainly harm low-level workers.
Rogel Aguilera-Mederos faced harsh punishment under the state’s mandatory minimum sentences for insisting on the right to a trial.
Stranger still, the leading drug policy reform organization supported Schumer's obstruction.
Despite bipartisan momentum at the federal level, Congress still couldn't get anything over the finish line.
Ronald Bailey and Jacob Sullum on the future of COVID-19, the politicization of science, the failure of mandates, and how to talk with anti-vaxxers.
Politicians and cops found creative ways to dodge responsibility in 2021.
If only they would apply that lesson to other goods and services.
Prohibition has driven opioid-related deaths to record levels.
Bureaucratic foot-dragging is costing lives.
Bobby Sneed's story highlights how far some government agents will go to keep people locked up, flouting the same legal standards they are charged with upholding.
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Stanton Peele's memoir of his "lonely quest to change how we see addiction" contradicts the prejudices that still dominate the drug policy debate.
Despite state legalization, federal prohibition makes break-ins harder on marijuana shops and manufacturers.
Less punitive responses to drug addiction are good, but what about people still stuck in federal prison?
Policy makers are acting as if saving the lives of smokers via harm-reducing alternatives counts for nothing.
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As the U.S. reaches new terrible milestones in overdose deaths, a harm reduction system that has proven itself elsewhere finally launches where it’s needed most.
The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled that the ballot initiative violated the "single subject" rule for constitutional amendments.
There are better ways to build trust in the community than by violating the Fourth Amendment.
Restrictions on pain medication have undermined patient care while making drug use more lethal.
The meager evidence cited by Connecticut officials makes their warnings seem overwrought.
Some are using Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal to argue for harsher laws and punishments. Andrew Coffee IV's case is a study in why that's an awful idea.
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The Hulu miniseries portrays opioid pain medication as unacceptably dangerous in nearly every context.
Undertreatment of pain is a real problem, and bona fide patients rarely become addicted to their medication.
Rep. Nancy Mace is touting "a framework which allows states to make their own decisions on cannabis."