Why Are Local Officials Shutting Down Needle Exchange Programs During a Crisis?
Moral judgment of drug users overrules solutions that fight overdoses and halt the spread of disease.
Moral judgment of drug users overrules solutions that fight overdoses and halt the spread of disease.
Former player: If there's any sport or league that should be leading the way in experiments with cannibis, of course it's the NFL.
The case for full legalization becomes stronger-and more politically acceptable-all the time.
Maybe people who are inclined to try psychedelics are less antisocial to begin with.
An overdose death leads to an absurd prosecution.
After trying for years to imprison the Kettle Falls Five as drug dealers, prosecutors concede they are patients protected by federal law.
Do the pain relief benefits of prescription opioids outweigh their addiction risks?
The DOJ has indicted two Chinese nationals for sending fentanyl to the U.S. Now what?
The drug czar nominee withdrew his name after being portrayed as the henchman of villains who profit from addiction.
What's the opposite of a gateway drug?
The Krispy Kreme Caper illustrates the limits of drug field tests and the cops who perform them.
The former head of the CDC wants to drive up the price of heroin. Here's what we might see if that happens.
"We don't have enough space for them," said sheriff.
New CDC data finds fentanyl deaths doubled in 2016.
Preliminary data from the CDC suggest an unprecedented number of Americans died of a drug overdose last year.
Fifty years of scaremongering have turned LSD into a bogeyman.
Under the guise of getting addicts treatment, courts are ordering people to do dangerous and unremunerated labor in "diversion" factory farms.
Incentives for neighbors to turn on each other. Incentives for police to find reasons to seize people's stuff and keep it.
Seize the drugs. Sell the drugs. Arrest the buyers. Repeat.
A $1,000 fine and potentially six months of jail time becomes a $75 ticket.
Operational security remains the Achilles heel for dark web drug vendors.
A lawsuit by three sober drivers who were busted for DUI questions the pot-detecting abilities of DREs.
Acting DEA Administrator Chuck Rosenberg reportedly resigned in part over the Justice Department's obstruction of marijuana research.
The total was still 25 percent lower than the 2008 peak, although it was three times as high as the number of marijuana arrests in 1991.
Maybe it's time to try a new approach?
Tomorrow New Hampshire becomes the 22nd state to eliminate that possibility.
The mayor's task force has also recommended the idea.
The governor, who worries that pot-friendly businesses could provoke a federal crackdown, disagrees.
The government insists it's sticking to its timeline.
Cheech and Chong were decades ago, but Netflix show leans on the same old pot jokes.
The country's largest retail cannabis market will be covered in red tape.
Past-month cannabis consumption by 12-to-17-year-olds is down by more than 20 percent since 2002.
Lawmakers consider bill that lets eight counties experiment with safe spaces to use illegal drugs.
The rider could still be renewed if a conference committee decides to put it in the final bill.
Legal hemp has returned to Kentucky. Will the Feds step aside and let the industry flourish?
U.S. policymakers continue to pursue programs that punish at the expense of ones that save lives.
Some would rather have overdoses than risk "destigmatizing" addiction.
The Fourth Amendment-destroying powers of the Border Patrol continue to harass Americans.
The court says a marijuana odor did not justify reaching into a woman's underwear during a routine traffic stop.
The designation should speed the drug's approval as a prescription medicine, which could happen as soon as 2021.
It has not been the disaster portrayed by the prohibitionists whose numbers the attorney general likes to cite.
Heroin user take smaller doses if they know they're also taking fentanyl.
Maybe reparations from the federal government are in order.
How competition and legalization will make weed better, more consistent, and more accessible than ever.
By asking states to regulate marijuana better, the attorney general concedes that prohibition is gone for good.