Rand Paul Presses Jeff Sessions on Industrial Hemp Policy
Paul and several other senators want Sessions to reassure jittery banks and hemp farmers that the Justice Department will leave them alone.
Paul and several other senators want Sessions to reassure jittery banks and hemp farmers that the Justice Department will leave them alone.
"I take the Hippocratic oath seriously that my job is to relieve pain and suffering," says Dr. Forest Tennant, a California pain specialist who patients from across the nation are flocking to see.
This is your war on drugs...on drugs.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte follows prohibitionist logic to its lethal conclusion.
John Singleton's latest is a hackneyed embrace of debunked conspiracies.
Kennedy ("I think the problem is that heroin is illegal") and Kat Timpf say bluntly what Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson couldn't quite bring himself to advocate last year
George Burke says taking tiny hits of acid has changed his work, and his life, for the better.
New History Channel series explores the dark corners of prohibition and takes viewers on great, freaky trip.
A new U.N. report finds cryptomarkets comprise a bigger chunk of the global drug trade than ever before.
Welcome to one of the darkest corners of your War on Drugs, ladies and gentlemen.
It looks like the policy Jeff Sessions rescinded did have a significant impact on the sentences received by nonviolent, low-level defendants.
The conviction was secured in February.
The Justice Department inspector general comes to a different conclusion than the U.S. attorney general.
The attorney general says there are no low-level, nonviolent drug offenders in federal prison.
The bipartisan CARERS Act prohibits federal prosecution of patients and providers who comply with state law.
A systemic lack of safeguards in how the state medicates foster children
Sessions uses a straw man to justify a war on medical pot.
The reason given was that too many people were finding them a useful means of keeping weed away from their kids.
The FDA pushed for tamper-proof opioids. Now it wants one of them off the market.
The suit accuses officers of violating the teens' Fourth and 14th Amendment rights.
But the appeals court rejected claims against state and local officials who regulate marijuana businesses.
Security threats don't excuse the abolition of due process.
The city has shuttered well over half its dispensaries, and has plans to close many more.
A man who faced federal distribution charges argued the state's possession prosecution was double jeopardy.
Dr. David Nutt on what the first brain imaging study of humans on LSD reveals about mental health and human consciousness.
2nd Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Lynch says very fact that Ulbricht's defense dared question the drug war helped justify wildly harsh life sentence without parole
Defending the DOJ's new, harsher charging policy, assistant U.S. attorneys say they only prosecute high-level offenders.
A review of American Kingpin and an interview with the author.
Director Amir Bar-Lev discusses his new 4-hour documentary on Jerry Garcia, the band, and their relationship with fans.
"I can't help but think this is vindictive prosecution."
The verdict is a rebuke to an attorney general who helped doom plans for a marijuana resort on an Indian reservation.
First degree murder charges for man who sold drug that led to overdose death.
Republican Gov. Phil Scott cited absence of a roadside sobriety test for THC.
Trump praises Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, which is tied to thousands of extrajudicial killings.
Successful clinical trials would lead to MDMA's removal from schedule I.
The impact of the new charging policy was not as big as the DOJ implied.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions's order to prosecutors to seek maximum sentences is wrongheaded.
The attorney general wants prosecutors to maximize penalties for drug offenders, regardless of the threat they pose.
If successful, state would stop piling on more punishment for prior convictions.
Michigan's "zero tolerance" standard for THC-positive motorists inflicts another injustice.
Senator slams the Attorney General's new directive, and offers new explanation for his confirmation vote.
Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch discuss Comey, Trump, Sessions, and the Rock.