14-Year Trend of Rising Opioid Deaths Reversed in Colorado After Marijuana Legalization
What's the opposite of a gateway drug?
War on Drugs
Man Busted for Meth That Was Actually Donut Glaze Gets $37,500 for His Trouble
The Krispy Kreme Caper illustrates the limits of drug field tests and the cops who perform them.
The Pros and Cons of a Heroin Shortage
The former head of the CDC wants to drive up the price of heroin. Here's what we might see if that happens.
There Aren't Enough Beds in This Virginia Jail for All the Women Caught in Heroin and 'Human Trafficking' Dragnets
"We don't have enough space for them," said sheriff.
New Hampshire's Medical Examiner: Opioid Deaths Have "Completely Overwhelmed Us"
New CDC data finds fentanyl deaths doubled in 2016.
America Set an Awful New Record in 2016
Preliminary data from the CDC suggest an unprecedented number of Americans died of a drug overdose last year.
American Adults See Occasional LSD Use As Riskier Than Regular Binge Drinking. It's Not.
Fifty years of scaremongering have turned LSD into a bogeyman.
The Real 'Modern Slavery'? Inside America's Court-Ordered Corporate Labor Camps
Under the guise of getting addicts treatment, courts are ordering people to do dangerous and unremunerated labor in "diversion" factory farms.
Michigan Mayor Offers Seized Money as a Citizen Reward for Drug Snitching. What Could Go Wrong?
Incentives for neighbors to turn on each other. Incentives for police to find reasons to seize people's stuff and keep it.
DEA Agents Sold Opioids, Stole Cash, and Falsely Identified Drug Suspects, Say Feds
Seize the drugs. Sell the drugs. Arrest the buyers. Repeat.
Atlanta Decriminalizes Possession of Small Amounts of Marijuana
A $1,000 fine and potentially six months of jail time becomes a $75 ticket.
How a Blue Butterfly Stamp Brought Down One of the Dark Web's Biggest Marijuana Vendors
Operational security remains the Achilles heel for dark web drug vendors.
Bogus Stoned Driving Arrests Highlight Dubious Methods of 'Drug Recognition Experts'
A lawsuit by three sober drivers who were busted for DUI questions the pot-detecting abilities of DREs.
Jeff Sessions Just Made the Chief of the DEA Look Like a Pot Head's Hero
Acting DEA Administrator Chuck Rosenberg reportedly resigned in part over the Justice Department's obstruction of marijuana research.
Pot Busts Rose Last Year After Hitting a Two-Decade Low in 2015
The total was still 25 percent lower than the 2008 peak, although it was three times as high as the number of marijuana arrests in 1991.
Fentanyl Importation Reaches 'Shocking' Levels, Says Prosecutor
Maybe it's time to try a new approach?
The 28 States Where a Little Pot Can Still Send You to Jail
Tomorrow New Hampshire becomes the 22nd state to eliminate that possibility.
Philly D.A. Frontrunner Backs Safe Injection Sites for Drug Users
The mayor's task force has also recommended the idea.
Nevada's Legislative Counsel Says Marijuana Lounges Are Already Legal
The governor, who worries that pot-friendly businesses could provoke a federal crackdown, disagrees.
Canadian Cops Claim They Won't Be Ready for Marijuana Legalization by 2018
The government insists it's sticking to its timeline.
Disjointed Coughs Out Some Tired Dope Humor
Cheech and Chong were decades ago, but Netflix show leans on the same old pot jokes.
Want to Get Into California's Legal Pot Market? Expect a Regulatory Morass
The country's largest retail cannabis market will be covered in red tape.
Despite Legalization, Adolescent Marijuana Use Hits 15-Year Low
Past-month cannabis consumption by 12-to-17-year-olds is down by more than 20 percent since 2002.
Will California Beat Seattle in Building a Safe Drug Injection Facility?
Lawmakers consider bill that lets eight counties experiment with safe spaces to use illegal drugs.
House Rules Committee Blocks Amendment Protecting Medical Marijuana
The rider could still be renewed if a conference committee decides to put it in the final bill.
Hemp Comes Home
Legal hemp has returned to Kentucky. Will the Feds step aside and let the industry flourish?
How Many More People Have to Die From Heroin and Fentanyl Before We Try Something Different?
U.S. policymakers continue to pursue programs that punish at the expense of ones that save lives.
Seattle Ballot Initiative Would Block Safe Drug Injection Centers
Some would rather have overdoses than risk "destigmatizing" addiction.
Border Patrol Sets Up Immigration Checkpoint in New Hampshire; Nearly Twice as Many Drug Arrests Result
The Fourth Amendment-destroying powers of the Border Patrol continue to harass Americans.
Roadside Crotch Search Was Unconstitutional, Indiana Appeals Court Rules
The court says a marijuana odor did not justify reaching into a woman's underwear during a routine traffic stop.
FDA Deems MDMA, Banned Since 1985, a 'Breakthrough Therapy'
The designation should speed the drug's approval as a prescription medicine, which could happen as soon as 2021.
Colorado's Governor Sets Jeff Sessions Straight on Marijuana Legalization
It has not been the disaster portrayed by the prohibitionists whose numbers the attorney general likes to cite.
New Study Finds Heroin Users Less Likely to Overdose If They Know What Drugs They're Actually Taking
Heroin user take smaller doses if they know they're also taking fentanyl.
I Became a Pot Felon at 18. I'm Owed More Than an Apology.
Maybe reparations from the federal government are in order.
A Cannabis Industry PR Exec Explains Why the Future of Pot Is Old People and Office Workers
How competition and legalization will make weed better, more consistent, and more accessible than ever.
Governors Challenge Jeff Sessions' Tendentious Questions About Legal Pot
By asking states to regulate marijuana better, the attorney general concedes that prohibition is gone for good.
African Americans Are Eight Times More Likely to Be Victims of Homicide Than Whites, Says CDC
The murder rate fell from 9.8 per 100,000 residents in 1991 to 4.5 in 2014; it's estimated at 5.3 for 2016.
Heroin Death Rate Among Teenagers Rises As Heroin Use Falls
The CDC supplies more evidence that the war on drugs is making heroin more lethal.
Trump's Opioid Emergency Response
He can continue pursuing lethal supply-side policies, or he can focus on saving lives through harm reduction.
Texas Cops Spent 11 Minutes Searching a Woman's Vagina, Found No Drugs
Harris County deputies were initially indicted for the "offensive and shocking" search, but those charges were dropped last week.
The Federal Government Is Finally Exploring Marijuana As a Medical Alternative to Opioids
Cannabis research turns another corner.
The Justice Department Wants to Put Small-Time Fentanyl Dealers in Federal Prison
Sessions has dispensed with the myth that federal prison is just for big fish.
What China's Growing Role in Illegal Drug Production Tells Us About the Future of the Drug War
It's more unwinnable than ever before.
