Poll Finds Ohio Voters Both Favor and Oppose Marijuana Legalization
A legalization initiative and a measure aimed at nullifying it both get majority support.
A legalization initiative and a measure aimed at nullifying it both get majority support.
Both candidates seem to think our prisons are filled with pot smokers.
The vice-president is an unrepentant drug warrior and has promised "no changes" to old-age entitlements that screw the young.
Weed is legal in Colorado. But it's illegal to consume it in most public locations.
Complaints detail the Border Patrol's routine constitutional abuses.
Both candidates exaggerate marijuana's role in mass incarceration.
Large majorities of Democrats and Republicans would abolish mandatory minimums for nonviolent offenses.
To stop you, agents need no special reason; to search your car, all they need is a dog.
Clinton is still noncommittal on marijuana legalization, even though she mistakenly thinks most low-level, nonviolent offenders in prison are there for smoking pot.
Is reducing prison terms reckless in light of drug and crime trends?
In a new legislative low, Gov. Moonbeam nixes reform that would help dying patients live longer, more comfortably.
Bipartisan bills could help free Weldon Angelos and thousands of other drug offenders.
Spending restrictions aim to stop interference with state marijuana and hemp policies.
The sentence reductions in both bills are nevertheless a major improvement.
Bills backed by the chairmen of the House and Senate judiciary committees could help free thousands of drug offenders.
Beginning at the end of the month, some 6,000 drug offenders will get out earlier than originally expected.
The measure includes a generous home cultivation limit, and it does not define drugged driving based on THC levels.
First-time drug offenders are coerced into becoming informants on the campus of Ole Miss.
School is supposed to teach kids to think critically. Instead, they encounter instead a system that is arbitrary, harsh, and ineffective at teaching.
The remaining defendants in the Kettle Falls Five case receive sentences ranging from 12 to 33 months.
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.
The bill could let thousands of current prisoners get out sooner than expected and reduce future injustices.
Police, prosecutors resist changes.
At the insistence of the powerful senator, a new bill shortens fewer sentences and lengthens others.
Before state-licensed shops open next year, medical dispensaries get to serve recreational consumers.
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.
Ben Nichols, who later changed the charges to misdemeanors, argues that the state's marijuana laws are needlessly confusing.
And the results will be just as disastrous, for "perpetrators" and "victims" alike.
Harlem activists called for federal troops to "clean up" the streets, demanded life sentences for drug dealers.
Despite decriminalization and legalization in some states, there were more than 700,000 marijuana arrests last year.
It's as hard to fire bad federal agents as it is bad police officers.
The Denver homicide that became a prohibitionist cautionary tale
Arizona senator does not believe legalizing marijuana is a good idea.
Arizona senator says a Balanced Budget Amendment is the single-best thing to get done before 2016 election.
After marijuana decriminalization, more is required to pull someone over.
Pot prohibitionists turn a Colorado homicide into a misleading cautionary tale.
A series of misunderstandings created the impression that the legislature had boosted penalties.
Would forbid use of seized funds to perpetuate drug war.
Probably not, but it's worrisome that the question confuses legislators, prosecutors, regulators, and the governor.
Drug warriors are desperate to show that repealing pot prohibition in Colorado was a terrible mistake.
Through Combat Flip Flops they're educating Afghan women, clearing landmines, cracking cartels, and employing vets.
The off-putting but accurate reference to the "exclusive rights" reserved for a cannabis cultivation cartel will remain.
An anti-drug task force is desperate to show that legalization in Colorado has been a disaster.
An economist thinks about how online drug sales post-Silk Road will, and won't, change the illegal drug market.