Marijuana Taxes and Restrictions Recreate Prohibition by the Back Door
As marijuana is being legalized around the country, control freaks try new ways to control.
As marijuana is being legalized around the country, control freaks try new ways to control.
After 2010 reforms, crack use fell along with prosecutions and penalties.
Santa Ana officers want to stop their department from using the footage to investigate them.
The drug war dove becomes the GOP's leading immigration war hawk violating his own commitment to civil liberties
New video shows police dangling "quick cash" as further incentive to avoid 40 years in prison for selling 3.3 grams of pot.
Local officials implausibly suggest that marijuana played a role in her arrest and suicide.
The departing Northern California U.S. attorney was responsible for shutting down more than 600 legal dispensaries.
If elected president, Christie says he'd stomp out legal weed. As governor, he's already done just that.
Dana Rohrabacher and Sam Farr want the Justice Department to stop ignoring their rider.
Local officials suggest that pot contributed to her arrest and suicide.
He wants to protect civil liberties from the drug war but not the immigration war
New Jersey's governor warns cannabis consumers to toke up while they still can.
We're both winning and losing the drug war, so don't change anything!
He emphasizes the importance of making shorter sentences retroactive.
An ACLU lawsuit highlights the corrupting effect of civil forfeiture.
A cop's indictment casts light on a drug raid that nearly killed a toddler.
World's biggest pot shop vs. the feds.
When mercy gets in the way of ambition.
A federal indictment reopens questions about a raid that critically injured a toddler.
Federalism and the urge to bash Obama pull him in opposite directions.
Bou Bou Phonesavanh may get some justice after all.
Randall Kerrick shot Jonathan Ferrell 10 times. Even Kerrick's former chief called it "excessive." Now he stands trial.
According to John Walters, all drug offenders are violent.
Provisions prevent feds from spending on interference with state hemp-farming programs or hemp crop transport.
The president can do much more to correct unjust sentences, but time is running out.
David Brock's awful group tries to slime the Koch brothers as criminal-justice opportunitists; actual liberal reformers leap to their defense
Using sunlight instead of electric lights could cut the price of pot in half.
The SAFE Justice Act gets a boost from the House speaker.
The president still thinks drug offenders belong behind bars.
Johnson says he wants nothing to do with the GOP.
The president joins the Kentucky senator in calling for sentencing reform.
This is a promising and positive step in the right direction, but real reform is still needed.
Regulators and prosecutors would be barred from punishing financial institutions for serving state-licensed cannabusinesses.
Businesses that exclude people under 21 could allow marijuana consumption.
Could the Democratic race get any less libertarian?
If correcting clear injustices is the aim, Obama can do a lot more.
Vu Do says he never committed a drug offense, but he did miss a deadline.
U.K. wants to be able to ban chemicals more quickly. That's going to be a disaster.
Is this how the war on weed ends?
More than any other major-party presidential candidate, but there's room for improvement.
By ballot initiative.