More Evidence That Jeff Sessions' Cannabis Crackdown May Never Materialize
A DOJ panel's recommendations reportedly do not include any significant changes in marijuana enforcement.
War on Drugs
NFL Owners Agree To Consider Letting Players Use Medical Marijuana
The NFL's new chief medical officer says marijuana could be "really important" in treating short-term and chronic pain.
Researchers Highlight the Government's Complicity in Heroin Deaths
The more drug warriors crack down on opioids, the more dangerous they become.
The Justice Department Is Asking Legal Marijuana States to Do the Impossible
Sessions wants Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to do something that can't be done.
Beware, Pain-Sufferers: Jeff Sessions Is Coming for Your Doctor
A new push to imprison those who prescribe too many opioids
Cory Booker's Revolutionary Marijuana Reform Bill Doesn't Have a Snowball's Chance in Hell
The most far-reaching marijuana reform bill ever introduced in the Senate is essentially a progressive fantasy.
Opioid Addiction Report Uses Panic to Sell More Federal Spending
At least it's not calling for harsher laws-yet.
Baltimore Drops Dozens of Criminal Cases over Allegations of Planted Drugs
But for the body camera footage…
Congress Wants to Know Why the BOP Won't Let Elderly Prisoners Go Home to Die
"Compassionate release" is an excellent tool that the BOP refuses to use.
Plunge in Pretrial Jail Detention Follows Bail Reforms in New Jersey
Twenty percent fewer people stuck in cells simply because they cannot afford to pay
13 Reasons Jeff Sessions is a @$#/!
The attorney general is an unreformed drug warrior and sinister elf.
California Wants to Stop Pot Dispensaries from Branding Merchandise
The nanny state comes after swag.
Federal Appeals Court Castigates Kansas Cops for Pot Raid Triggered by Tea
One judge notes that police raided a family's home "based on nothing more than junk science, an incompetent investigation, and a publicity stunt."
How Much More Vicious Will the War on Painkillers Get?
Authorities look for new ways to hold others responsible for overdoses and throw them in jail.
Once a Killer Drug, Qat Is Now a Dropout Drug, If You Believe The New York Times
The paper warns that the stimulant shrub, used for millennia in Ethiopia, is creating "a huge problem" among "underemployed youth."
Reefer Madness at The New York Times
America's Paper of Record, which officially turned against marijuana prohibition in 2014, spent most of the previous century credulously promoting it.
Sessions Boosts Forfeiture and Mandatory Minimums but Lets Pot Prohibition Collapse
Could the contrast have something to do with his boss's policy preferences?
Police Body Camera Appears to Catch Baltimore Officer Planting Drugs for a Search
This is why law enforcement should not have control over whether footage is released.
Marijuana Legalization Is Another Reason Dogs Should Not Issue Search Warrants
A Colorado appeals court concludes that a canine sniff-over is a search and by itself cannot supply probable cause.
Justice Department Rolls Out New Policy to Seize More Money Under Asset Forfeiture
The new directive also includes some safeguards for property owners, but civil liberties groups say they don't go far enough.
Former DHS Official: Let's Declare War on Mexico!
If we can't get people to stop using heroin, suggests Matt Mayer, why don't we just invade the country that produces it?
Countdown To (Legalized) Ecstasy! Rick Doblin, MAPS, & the Psychedelic Renaissance [Podcast]
Serious researchers are about to do what Timothy Leary never managed: Get government approval for LSD, MDMA, and more.
Medical Researchers Are Steps From Legalizing Ecstasy. Here's How They Did It.
A half century after the psychedelic movement came to a screeching halt, MDMA scientists are making the most of a second chance.
Nonmedical Marijuana Use Is (Mainly) Recreational, So Why Not Call It That?
Fear of fun can be found on both sides of the legalization debate.
Selling the Silk Road Soap Opera
A new book on dark net entrepreneur Ross Ulbricht misses the point.
Oregon Town Cracks Down on Pot-Selling Robotic Blonde Mannequins
A constitutionally dubious ordinance
Donald Trump Admits Border Wall Won't Stop Drugs From Mexico
But he plans to design it "with transparency" so you'll see the huge bags of drugs being tossed over the wall before they smack you in the head.
House Advances Bill That Would Expand the DEA's Power to Make Legal Highs Illegal
Plodding prohibitionists try once again to ban drugs that do not exist yet.
Did Police Just Take Down the Biggest Dark Web Drug Market in History?
Alphabay has been down for more than a week. A series of raids and arrests suggests it's not an exit scam.
Jeff Sessions Wants to Revive DARE
Sessions' nostalgia for the "just say no" campaign glosses over the fact that it didn't work.
Jeff Sessions Wants More Mandatory Minimums, Less Justice
The attorney general is determined to reverse the recent trend toward more judicious use of severe penalties.
Feds Authorized Montana Woman's Hemp Farm, but Now They're Killing It
Inconsistent federal agency policies end in denial of access to water.
Nevada's Half-Hearted Marijuana Legalization Guarantees a Healthy Black Market
Legalized marijuana came to Nevada, but so have the high taxes and complex regulations that preserve illegal sales elsewhere.
City Councilman's Proposal to Deal With Opioid Overdoses: Let Them Die
A Middletown, Ohio, lawmaker wants paramedics to stop treating to overdose patients after two strikes.
Rand Paul Presses Jeff Sessions on Industrial Hemp Policy
Paul and several other senators want Sessions to reassure jittery banks and hemp farmers that the Justice Department will leave them alone.
Meet the Doctor Who Refuses to Stop Prescribing Opioids to Pain Patients
"I take the Hippocratic oath seriously that my job is to relieve pain and suffering," says Dr. Forest Tennant, a California pain specialist who patients from across the nation are flocking to see.
This Massachusetts Lawmaker Wants to Throw Folks in Prison for Having Secret Car Compartments
This is your war on drugs...on drugs.
What America Taught a Murderous Drug Warrior
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte follows prohibitionist logic to its lethal conclusion.
Snowfall Presents Cracked View of Drug History
John Singleton's latest is a hackneyed embrace of debunked conspiracies.
Fox Hosts for Legalizing Heroin
Kennedy ("I think the problem is that heroin is illegal") and Kat Timpf say bluntly what Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson couldn't quite bring himself to advocate last year
LSD Microdosing: The New Silicon Valley Productivity Hack
George Burke says taking tiny hits of acid has changed his work, and his life, for the better.
How the CIA Turned Us onto LSD and Heroin: Secrets of America's War on Drugs
New History Channel series explores the dark corners of prohibition and takes viewers on great, freaky trip.
The Silk Road Is Dead, But the Internet's Illicit Drug Economy Is Alive and Well
A new U.N. report finds cryptomarkets comprise a bigger chunk of the global drug trade than ever before.
Philando Castile's 'Audacity To Smoke Marijuana' in Front of Child Doomed Him, Says Cop Who Killed Him
Welcome to one of the darkest corners of your War on Drugs, ladies and gentlemen.
More Evidence That Eric Holder's Charging Memo Helped Drug Offenders
It looks like the policy Jeff Sessions rescinded did have a significant impact on the sentences received by nonviolent, low-level defendants.
