A Short, Sad History of Zero-Tolerance School Policies
School is supposed to teach kids to think critically. Instead, they encounter instead a system that is arbitrary, harsh, and ineffective at teaching.
School is supposed to teach kids to think critically. Instead, they encounter instead a system that is arbitrary, harsh, and ineffective at teaching.
The remaining defendants in the Kettle Falls Five case receive sentences ranging from 12 to 33 months.
Anti-trafficking efforts includes everything from offering or soliciting paid sex, to living with a sex worker, to running a classified advertising website.
How the government makes drugs more dangerous
Commissioner Bratton says new database could become "national template" for police transparency.
A North Dakota drug task force bullied a college student into working for them. Then he turned up dead.
The bill could let thousands of current prisoners get out sooner than expected and reduce future injustices.
Police, prosecutors resist changes.
At the insistence of the powerful senator, a new bill shortens fewer sentences and lengthens others.
Before state-licensed shops open next year, medical dispensaries get to serve recreational consumers.
A new book argues that black America helped pave the way for the War on Drugs.
The more successful drug warriors are, the more dangerous drugs become.
Ben Nichols, who later changed the charges to misdemeanors, argues that the state's marijuana laws are needlessly confusing.
And the results will be just as disastrous, for "perpetrators" and "victims" alike.
Harlem activists called for federal troops to "clean up" the streets, demanded life sentences for drug dealers.
Despite decriminalization and legalization in some states, there were more than 700,000 marijuana arrests last year.
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It's as hard to fire bad federal agents as it is bad police officers.
The Denver homicide that became a prohibitionist cautionary tale
Arizona senator does not believe legalizing marijuana is a good idea.
Arizona senator says a Balanced Budget Amendment is the single-best thing to get done before 2016 election.
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After marijuana decriminalization, more is required to pull someone over.
Pot prohibitionists turn a Colorado homicide into a misleading cautionary tale.
A series of misunderstandings created the impression that the legislature had boosted penalties.
Dave Huntley was a father, husand, & triathlete who contracted Lou Gehrig's Disease. But the FDA was his biggest foe.
Would forbid use of seized funds to perpetuate drug war.
The Kentucky senator offers a desperately needed alternative to the GOP's mindless militarism.
Religion in a free society will always cause controversy. Got a problem with that? Religious minority Ben Carson seems to.
Probably not, but it's worrisome that the question confuses legislators, prosecutors, regulators, and the governor.
Drug warriors are desperate to show that repealing pot prohibition in Colorado was a terrible mistake.
Pope is a "communist and a Marxist" who has "assaulted matrimony" in a "rejection of his papal role," says leading Catholic libertarian.
We're super-cereal about this. Really.
"Libertarians Are Among Us!" sez French leftist paper Liberation. "Ultra individualist movement remains politically marginal but now swarming in pop culture."
Through Combat Flip Flops they're educating Afghan women, clearing landmines, cracking cartels, and employing vets.
The off-putting but accurate reference to the "exclusive rights" reserved for a cannabis cultivation cartel will remain.
An anti-drug task force is desperate to show that legalization in Colorado has been a disaster.
An economist thinks about how online drug sales post-Silk Road will, and won't, change the illegal drug market.
On foreign policy and drug policy, he staked out distinct and forward-looking policies.
But even the New Jersey governor concedes "the war on drugs has been a failure."
Paul, Fiorina, Bush all support letting states make own choices.
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The Republican Party will never command the future unless it gives up its ridiculous nostalgia for its last great figure.
Presidential candidates demand more action on illegal immigrants and illegal drugs, but the two goals conflict.
California could become the fifth state to misidentify suicide as a medical treatment.