Bowing to Public Opinion, Trump and Harris Both Agree That Marijuana Should Be Legal
It remains unclear whether either would do anything about that as president.
It remains unclear whether either would do anything about that as president.
At least he draws the right conclusion from this imaginary hazard, acknowledging the dangers created by prohibition.
Trump says the legislature should ban public pot smoking but that we shouldn't waste money arresting adults for possession.
"[O]ur history and tradition may support some limits on a presently intoxicated person's right to carry a weapon ..., but they do not support disarming a sober person based solely on past substance usage."
The ruling notes that Breonna Taylor’s death resulted from the "late-night, surprise manner of entry."
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U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson concluded that the alleged facts did not support penalty enhancements for violating the Fourth Amendment but left several other charges in place.
The official Democratic Party platform no longer endorses abolishing the death penalty, decriminalizing marijuana, or repealing mandatory minimums.
Democrats' official 2024 platform praises President Joe Biden's marijuana pardons but fails to call for decriminalization.
Prosecutors' attempts to convert accidental overdoses into homicides are dangerous and morally dubious.
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The FDA, which approved the protocols for the studies it now questions, is asking for an additional Phase 3 clinical trial, which would take years and millions of dollars.
The authors of the meta-analysis misleadingly imply that pain treatment should be blamed for recent increases in drug-related deaths.
The book is the most extensive analysis to date of constitutional issues arising from the War on Drugs, and why the constitutional law largely failed to constrain its abuses.
The Democratic vice presidential nominee has a long record of supporting cannabis reform.
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The Brown University economist's new memoir Late Admissions covers capitalism, addiction, race, and the academy.
While lawmakers remain resistant to change, most of the public thinks it's high time to stop treating marijuana as dangerous.
The ruling means it's not child neglect for a pregnant woman prescribed medical marijuana to use it. But some judges say it should be.
She rightly backs "my body, my choice" on abortion, but goes against it on many other issues.
The presumptive Democratic nominee has a more liberal drug policy record than both the president and the Republican presidential nominee.
Recent footage shows a federal agent attempting to search a citizen’s bag without their consent, despite precedent saying that’s illegal.
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The agency claims DOI and DOC have "a high potential for abuse" because they resemble other drugs it has placed in Schedule I.
The ruling is the second recent court decision that has curbed Detroit's aggressive vehicle forfeiture program.
The president's decision to drop out after insisting he never would continued a pattern established by a long career of politically convenient reversals.
Under the law, the feds couldn't deny you a job or security clearance just because you've used marijuana in the past.
Defending the federal ban on gun possession by drug users, the government's lawyers seem increasingly desperate.
Growth of regulation slowed under former President Trump, but it still increased.
Every year, thousands of U.S. residents are deported for drug-related activity, including minor offenses and conduct that states have legalized.
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Leading constitutional law scholars Larry Solum and Mark Tushnet opine on how we might answer this question.
The Manhattan Institute's Charles Fain Lehman misleadingly equates a survey's measure of "cannabis use disorder" with "compulsive" consumption that causes "health and social problems."
Those three presidential candidates are making promises that would have bewildered and horrified the Founding Fathers.
The Harm Reduction Gap argues for individual autonomy and meeting drug users where they're at.
The majority and the dissenters agree that the drug was "central" to "the opioid crisis," even though there is little evidence to support that thesis.
Although the FBI never produced evidence that Ali Hemani was a threat to national security, it seems determined to imprison him by any means necessary.
The now-dead bill would have permitted three counties to establish pilot programs in which military veterans could take psilocybin under the supervision of medical professionals.
A widely cited study commits so many egregious statistical errors that it's a poster child for junk science.
The state has thousands of unauthorized shops but fewer than 200 licensed marijuana sellers.
Jeff Nichols tells the tragic story of a carefree Midwest motorcycle gang that transforms into something uglier.
As the DEA relentlessly tightens regulations on pain meds, the FDA refuses to approve a safer alternative already being used in similar countries.
The Ben Kredich Act, named for a young man killed by an allegedly impaired motorist, overcorrects in response to a tragic incident.
The blanket pardon is one of the largest yet, and another sign of the collapse of public support for marijuana prohibition.
Australia’s Prohibition-style attempts to abolish nicotine use have predictably led to a new drug war being fought over a legal substance.
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