The Nevada Highway Patrol exceeded its legal authority when it seized nearly $90,000 in cash from Stephen Lara in 2023 and then handed the case to the DEA.
Recent election results show the drug war’s punitive mentality still appeals to many Americans, even in blue states.
Patrick Darnell Daniels Jr. was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for violating a federal law that bars drug users from owning firearms.
Matthew Livelsberger’s alleged manifesto highlights an infamous U.S. drug raid.
An HBO series set in the Batman universe reminds us that when a substance is outlawed, the market will provide one way or another.
Voters overwhelmingly favored the new policy, which a former state legislator unsuccessfully tried to block.
Although marijuana prohibition has collapsed in one state after another, Congress has yet to take even the modest step that Carter recommended back in 1977.
Trump’s pick for federal drug enforcement was ousted for not respecting personal freedom. Too bad that that’s a job requirement.
The wrongful death lawsuit says Randall Adjessom came out of his bedroom with a gun when Mobile police broke down his family's door in a predawn raid, but when he realized they were cops, he put his hands in the air.
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The House Ethics Committee's findings, combined with Gaetz's lack of relevant experience, again raise the question of why Donald Trump picked him for attorney general.
Pharmacological Perennialism crossed paths with the Catholic Church at a previously unreported "holy meeting."
Using force to make people give up drugs is both dangerous and morally wrong.
While a federal crackdown reduced opioid prescriptions, the number of opioid-related deaths soared.
Brandy Moore, who stopped using meth midway through her pregnancy, was charged with "aggravated domestic violence" because she decided not to have an abortion.
One 2022 study found that 91 percent of women given fentanyl in their epidurals later tested positive for the drug.
Biden commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500 federal offenders who had been serving the remainder of their sentences on home confinement after being released from prison during COVID-19.
If stopping drugs from entering the country is as straightforward as the president-elect implies, why didn't he do it during his first term?
Since the president-elect refuses to admit that levies on imports are taxes paid by Americans, he sees no downside to raising them.
Civil rights groups, law enforcement officials, and religious leaders say Biden needs to use his pardon power to fulfill his campaign promises, not just help his son.
Though he commuted some drug offenders' sentences, Biden never delivered on the rest of his drug reform promises.
Joe Biden ran on some good ideas to reform policing and incarceration, which he mostly failed to deliver.
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An e-liquid manufacturer is challenging the FDA's "arbitrary and capricious" rejection of flavored vaping products.
The draconian penalties that Hunter Biden escaped affect many people whose fathers cannot save them.
A class action lawsuit claims Indianapolis law enforcement is using civil asset forfeiture to seize millions in cash from packages routed through a major FedEx hub, without notifying the owners of what crime they're suspected of committing.
Joe Biden says his son did not deserve prison for violating firearm laws that the president vigorously defends and has made more severe.
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The attorney general nominee's record as a drug warrior epitomizes the predictably perverse consequences of prohibition.
The problems with these test kits are well-known, and there have been hundreds of documented cases of wrongful arrests based on them.
The DEA paid one airline employee tens of thousands of dollars to snoop on travel itineraries and flag passengers for searches.
The proposal brings to mind the classic "bootleggers and Baptists" theory in which both moralists and competitors oppose a substance.
Trump's pick for attorney general is manifestly unqualified for the job, even without considering the salacious details of the ethics charges against him.
His priorities may not be the drastic reforms that are actually needed.
The nominee for attorney general passes the Trump loyalty test, but he lacks relevant experience and has repeatedly demonstrated poor judgment.
Many seriously ill people die waiting for the FDA to approve drugs that regulators in other advanced countries have already approved.
The DEA's attempts to enforce the nation's drug laws have been a resounding failure by pretty much any measure.
Ksenia Karelina was prosecuted as part of a larger “treason” crackdown that is unprecedented even by Russia’s illiberal standards.
Making DOI and DOC Schedule I drugs would interfere with psychiatric research.
The ballot initiative says a whiff of weed does not establish probable cause for a search or seizure, which was already doubtful in light of hemp legalization.
Trippy author Ernesto Londoño points out that supposedly ancient psychedelic rituals don't always lead to great outcomes.
Despite a few bright spots, the disappointing returns suggest that the road to pharmacological freedom will be rockier than activists hoped.
Residents of the two deep-red states have approved medical use of cannabis but remain leery of going further.
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