A Bold New Plan to Help Addicts and End the Drug War
"Addiction rewires your brain like falling in love does," says Maia Szalavitz, author of "Unbroken Brain."
"Addiction rewires your brain like falling in love does," says Maia Szalavitz, author of "Unbroken Brain."
The percentage of students who say pot is easy to get shows little change in recent years.
Is there any way to stop the abuse of the word 'epidemic'?
Their stories begin differently but end in the same place.
Any meaningful criminal justice reform must include a reexamination of these draconian policies.
His new organization, Generation Freedom, will "press the next President to make human trafficking a top priority" with a significantly higher budget.
An initiative that was temporarily derailed by a notary public's sloppy signature qualifies for the ballot.
Exclusive excerpt from Government Gone Wild: How D.C. Politicians Are Taking You for a Ride-and What You Can Do About It.
The two states want to join appeals filed by landowners and sheriffs.
Three people convicted of non-violent drug crimes. Their stories are the stuff of nightmares.
Admits he probably agrees with people who call him a killer.
Money donated to help Christian college in Burma, orphanage in Thailand.
Park security looked the other way.
The bill also covers candy shaped like fruit or people but not moons, stars, hearts, or marijuana leaves.
A new report from the state Department of Public Safety considers the consequences.
The senator says there's "almost the question" of why cigarettes are "a legal product in this country."
A Fortune list highlights those fighting the good fight against pot prohibition.
Unlike the feckless diplomats a few blocks away, artists presented a clear and devastating picture of the global war on drugs.
"Putting people first" might mean legalizing drugs, or it might mean beheading drug dealers.
A new report suggests some tentative observations about the consequences of legalization.
Contrary to Obama's claims, he has the power to end the madness. Will he?
Matt Welch talks about the 'ugliness' of Clintonian crime politics on Rev. Al Sharpton's PoliticsNation
Lee Carroll Brooker, a victim of Alabama's habitual offender law, argues that his punishment violates the Eighth Amendment.
Exchanging marijuana "gifts" for "donations" is not, alas, legal in Washington, D.C.
Matt Welch, Kmele Foster and Michael Moynihan try to figure out who's the real New Yorker
MSNBC's PoliticsNation will feature some blunt talk about New York politics
Creative entrepreneurs try to fill the gap between legal demand and illegal supply.
Clinton minimizes her role in advocating longer sentences and exaggerates her role in trying to shorten them.
The feds had argued that a spending rider left them free to shut down dispensaries.
Gov. Tom Wolf plans to sign a bill that was overwhelmingly approved by the state legislature.
She acknowledges harsher penalties implemented in the '90s were a mistake.
It's true, if you don't count Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Rick Perry, or Jim Webb
The former president can't decide whether he should brag about the 1994 law or apologize for it.
A lawsuit by a Pennsylvania woman describes a humiliating five-hour ordeal that discovered nothing.
"The people of Colorado have the right to make the decision," he tells reporters in Denver.
The ruling says the secretary state improperly rejected signatures based on an unreasonably narrow reading of the law.
Contrary to what prohibitionists claim, the numbers from Colorado are equivocal.
Prepare for tonight's Part II by re-living John Stossel grilling Gary Johnson, John McAfee, and Austin Petersen last week
The former president says Republicans made him support longer sentences, which were a necessary response to 13-year-old murderers "hopped up on crack."
Colorado's numbers do not show what opponents of legalization claim.
Election year posturing and new Supreme Court nominee fight push it down the agenda.
The agency always drags its feet before saying no, saying yes would require an embarrassing reversal, and the president has passed the buck to Congress.
Polls consistently show the public, when informed, opposes civil forfeiture.
11 p.m. ET & PT, 10 p.m. CT, to decide whether we've finally killed off all hope