Neither Terry Rolin or his daughter were ever charged with a crime, but that didn't stop the DEA from trying to seize more than $82,000 from them through civil asset forfeiture.
The former New York City mayor has never been good at concealing his conviction that he is smarter and better than the rest of us.
Defensive official reactions to corruption encourage the attitude that troubles the attorney general.
The zones cover vast swaths of Tennessee's cities—and turn minor drug crimes into sentences usually reserved for rape and murder.
Blame angry neighbors, not the feds.
A return to aerial fumigation in Colombia has some critics worried about a faltering peace.
There’s nobody to root for in this Amazon adaptation, and that’s intentional.
Irresponsible, ineffective, and dishonest
A book released next month will explore the conflict between federal and state marijuana laws, and what to do about it.
Federal judge confirms ruling that it doesn’t violate federal “crack house” law.
Benjamin Netanyahu is appointing a committee that will look into following Canada's example.
A new generation of marijuana prohibitionists is reviving old talking points with vaping products substituting for joints.
Plus: China boots three reporters, megacities are getting a smaller share of growth than they used to, and Dems gather to debate in Las Vegas..
After declaring another man arrested by Gerald Goines "actually innocent," the Harris County district attorney says prosecutors are re-examining cases going back to 2008.
Nearly 66,000 cases are covered, dating back to 1961.
The long, strange, and unfinished trip of a sitcom-writing legend who turned right after the Cold War, co-founded a podcast empire, turned on to psychedelics, and got turned off to politics.
The former New York mayor is being called a racist for his former support of searching young minorities without cause.
Government solutions to the opioid overdose crisis have contributed to the problem, and no candidate really wants to acknowledge it.
In New Hampshire, Biden says marijuana should be "basically legalized." That's an accurate representation of his proposed policies, but it also shows how he's lagging on the issue.
The lawsuit says Wayne County police stop and seize cars simply for entering or leaving certain areas.
The former New York City mayor, who thinks legalizing pot is "one of the stupidest things we've ever done," nevertheless says "putting people in jail for marijuana" is "really dumb."
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg says it's reasonable to presume that Gerald Goines also lied in other drug cases.
While the president seems sincerely concerned about "very unfair" drug penalties, it's not clear whether he thinks his work in that area is done.
A lesson for other governments making legalization plans
A ballot measure would create a regulatory framework for recreational sales.
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.
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