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.
A new frontier in rolling back drug prohibition
Dennis Tuttle and his wife, Rhogena Nicholas, who was shot twice, were pronounced dead shortly after police invaded their home based on a "controlled buy" that never happened.
The agency’s acknowledgment of the suffering caused by its prescribing advice may be too little, too late.
It's fair to take the cops' account with a grain of salt.
The bill applies to all federal marijuana offenders, and it creates a process for sealing records of other nonviolent offenses.
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The former vice president has a long legacy of expanding federal power.
The president thinks executions will help stop the flow of "fentanol" into the United States.
The CDC decries abrupt, involuntary dose reductions and patient abandonment without acknowledging its responsibility for those unintended but foreseeable consequences.
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Ashley Foster was jailed and inspected by child protective services for a mistake beyond her control.
California Public Health officials confiscated $140,000 worth of cannabidiol-infused beverages from an LA warehouse.
Experiments in California show that the government can quickly and efficiently expunge thousands of marijuana convictions. There's no reason it shouldn't.
The one potential holdout? Joe "gateway drug" Biden.
A policy alert from the USCIS agency clarifies that smoking weed, even in states that've legalized it, can still be grounds for denying citizenship applications.
Erik Altieri of NORML sees a bright future for American pot.
Sarah Rose Siskind's monthly show Drug Test is creating a world of educated psychonauts one trip at a time.
As 4/20 approaches, we share tips for dealing with a bad high (and avoiding one).
What sort of danger does marijuana pose on the road, and what should police do about it?
The California Environmental Quality Act is empowering anti-cannabis NIMBYs and causing regulatory chaos
"The black tide of psychosis and the red tide of violence are rising together on a green wave."
What a difference a few decades make when it comes to letting the states decide marijuana's status.
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