"All we want to do is save some young people from dying needlessly," says former Gov. Ed Rendell, who's on the board of Safehouse, the nation's first supervised injection site to operate out in the open.
On average, crack offenders who have benefited from the FIRST STEP Act will serve 14 years instead of 20.
State databases that track the medications we take invade our privacy without reducing opioid-related deaths.
Clearing the way for additional research into those drugs will help craft public policy regarding their use, and could open the door to additional medical uses.
The answer may depend on how you measure patients' legal access to cannabis.
Thomas J. Franzen is going to prison for ordering too much medicine.
The postwar era has been an endless series of rebukes to social conservatives—and a win for libertarians.
Regulators are gearing up for a long debate about the size, shape, and other specifications of edibles.
The Seattle festival's organizers argue that banning signs referring to state-licensed cannabusinesses violates the state and federal constitutions.
The Oakland City Council unanimously approved a city ordinance decriminalizing "entheogenic plants."
Meanwhile, Ross Ulbricht has to spend life in prison without parole.
The sale of cannabidiol-infused food and drink is still against the law, even as entrepreneurs flout those restrictions across the country.
An ACLU brief bolsters the state's case, arguing that people reasonably expect information about the medications they take will be kept confidential.
Plus: Spending bill includes pro-marijuana changes, State Department starts collecting social media accounts of visa applicants, and more...
You can’t overdose on fentanyl simply by touching it.
Alabama is one of the least transparent states in the U.S. when it comes to civil asset forfeiture. That could be changing.
One legislator tried to stop them by reenacting an infamously dumb anti-drug ad. It didn't work.
The researchers found no statistically significant relationship between testing positive for THC and contributing to accidents.
New York legislators also are taking another shot at legalization.
Giving consumers more accurate dosing for vaped THC is a huge market opportuntiy, but it has important public policy implications too.
Decriminalize Denver campaign director Kevin Matthews speaks about his winning strategy and the new frontier of drug policy.
This is the nature of government. It can't stop the flow of illicit substances in a sealed and militarized building that's under its total control.
According to the survey, three-fifth of voters think pot should be legal for recreational use.
Anti-prohibitionists are now trying to help those still impacted by old drug convictions.
Marijuana legalization changes the constitutional status of canine olfactory inspections.
She uses it for her arthritis.
The Bexar County District Attorney plans to stop prosecuting people for trace drug amounts and less than one ounce of pot in order to focus resources on violent crime.
Contradictory responses to a request for autopsy reports illustrate how law enforcement agencies take advantage of a broad exception to the state's public records law.
The tourist mecca will be one of the few U.S. jurisdictions that give visitors a place where they can legally use the marijuana they can legally buy.
The physical evidence at the scene seems inconsistent with the story told by the officers who conducted the no-knock drug raid.
An anti-pot group's own polling shows that support for legalization is up by 78 percent since November 2017.
I agree with this classic pro-choice slogan. But those who promote it would do well to recognize it has implications that go far beyond abortion. More people should embrace more of them.
The settlement is the latest in a string of costly settlements resulting from violent drug raids by Detroit police that left family pets dead.
High taxes and harsh regulations lead to a $223 million cut in budget projections.
The host of Hamilton's Pharmacopeia is already exploring what a post-prohibition world is going to look like.
The host of Hamilton's Pharmacopeia is exploring what a post-prohibition world will look like.
The approach Pollan prefers will not get us to the destination he says he wants to reach.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed three bills to limit civil asset forfeiture.
The case against prohibition cannot depend on persuading people that certain substances are benign and beneficial.
More than half of the 120 defendants in a notorious 2016 police raid were never even alleged to be gang members.
The surprise results will embolden efforts by activists in other states to legalize psilocybin for medical and religious use.
Majority support for legalizing marijuana does not mean most Americans believe people have a right to control what they put into their bodies.
"Whether you're using this plant for a medical reason, or a spiritual reason, or a recreational reason, you should not be going to jail or losing your children for it."
A jail in rural Maine sought to withhold an inmate's opioid addiction medication, increasing the chance that she would relapse and overdose upon release.
Jeffrey Stringer was sentenced to life in prison for a drug offense.
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