Since prescription restrictions pushed drug users toward deadlier substitutes, the decrease in fatalities is more plausibly attributed to harm reduction measures.
Thanks to the first fall in drug overdose deaths since 1990, plus a continuing decline in cancer deaths
Council member Gregorio Casar: "I think the state of Texas should come out of the Stone Ages and not only decriminalize but legalize marijuana in the state."
A new Drug Policy Alliance report highlights this puzzling and dangerous inconsistency.
Gov. Gina Raimondo wants to sell weed to balance the state's budget.
Additional grand juries will investigate possible wrongdoing by other narcotics officers, including the way the raid was conducted.
"I would have to grow at least three times as many plants under the USDA rule to produce the same amount of CBD as I get out of one plant now."
The vast majority of patients with vaping-related lung injuries who used cannabis products said they got them from "informal sources."
The former Rhode Island governor and senator said state-level legalization efforts are “interesting, positive experiments.”
A reduced emphasis of busting low-level dealers and users would be good news for scaling back the drug war.
The overturned rules banned microscopes and shovels as drug paraphernalia and prohibited pictures of cannabis or the equipment used to grow it.
While the issue is far from settled, a decline in Canadian beer sales and a drop in binge drinking among college students reinforce the case for a substitution effect.
In one week alone, newly legal dispensaries made $11 million in sales.
The Illinois State Police confirms that people who try newly legal marijuana are not considered "unlawful users" of narcotics.
"This is something that we knew would be provocative," said the state's Republican governor.
The pioneering psychedelic researcher, Timothy Leary collaborator, and New Age seeker exemplified America's postwar turn to individualism.
Marijuana merchants, restaurants, and "mobile premises" can let customers partake if they get state and local approval.
“Incarceration should not even be a response to drug possession.”
The East African khat trade is thriving, even as global prohibition creeps in around the edges.
Creating a sensible legal market would drive black market vape makers out of business.
Which state do you think will be more successful at moving cannabis consumers to the legal market?
The main danger to vapers is illicit cannabis extracts of unknown provenance and composition.
The state's Cannabis Advisory Committee blames high taxes, local bans, and onerous regulations.
A judge concluded that the restrictions violate the state constitution's free speech guarantee.
Biden's reputation as a bipartisan dealmaker might be appealing in these polarized times, but his record as a policy maker is atrocious.
The government and the press focus on newfangled contraptions instead of drug-related harm.
We found a lot of things to worry about over the past 10 years.
Tessa Majors may have been on way to buy illegal pot when she was stabbed to death. But if that's true, it's an argument against prohibition, not for it.
There are no supervised injection facilities openly operating in the United States. That might change soon.
When the vice president's son was caught using illegal drugs, he escaped legal problems. We should all be so lucky.
Despite notable progress in policies regarding pot and psychedelics, the war on drugs always finds new targets.
Police Chief Art Acevedo's observations about the fallen nature of humanity are no substitute for reforms aimed at preventing such abuses.
The vast majority of opium users in China were not the desperate addicts portrayed by proponents of prohibition.
The drug wars will continue until the state gets its cut of the money.
A deadly raid based on a bogus tip and a fraudulent search warrant affidavit highlights loose police practices in Houston.
U.S. life expectancy peaked in 2014.
When the government tries to hoover up all the money earned from legalized drugs, this is what happens.
Of the 50 states, three territories, and 10 provinces that make up the United States and Canada, all but one have legalized some form of either medical or recreational cannabis.
To his credit, Biden responded by calling for the decriminalization of marijuana and for releasing marijuana prisoners.
The Justice Department says Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas were killed in an operation based on a fraudulent warrant triggered by a false report to police.
The House is simultaneously advancing bills that would legalize marijuana and ban the vast majority of vaping products.
Somewhere between 650 and 1,000 Florida inmates are serving sentences under draconian opioid trafficking laws that have since been rolled back.
