Seven sheriff's deputies say the rapper subjected them to "embarrassment, ridicule, emotional distress, humiliation, and loss of reputation" after a drug bust on his house came up empty.
Nero the police dog put his paws on the side of the car, which qualifies as a trespass, and thereby also a "search" under the Fourth Amendment.
Defending a categorical ban on gun possession by cannabis consumers, the Biden administration cites inapt "historical analogues."
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"Then my baby started crying so I reached for my son, and as I'm reaching, a man held me and told me, 'Don't touch him. He's getting taken away from you,'" said the children's mother.
There's little reason to believe that any of the tactics Republican politicians are proposing would be effective in keeping fentanyl out of the country.
Each year, the DEA sets production limits for certain drugs, including some ingredients in common amphetamine pills like Adderall.
Even as the president bemoans the injustice of pot prohibition, his administration insists that cannabis consumers have no right to arms.
Conservatives have been slow to recognize the threat that drug prohibition poses to gun rights and other civil liberties.
"It's very easy for politicians to legislate freedom away," says Northwood University's Kristin Tokarev. "But it's incredibly hard to get back."
A ballot initiative that would have allowed recreational use was defeated by a large margin in a special election.
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Both parties are complicit in the lethal policies that gave us fentanyl disguised as Percocet.
While a conservative skepticism toward military aggression would be welcome, Republican standard-bearers are all too happy to sign off on war powers in other ways.
It doesn't make sense to create laws that restrict activities enjoyed by the general populace to protect a tiny minority that will undoubtedly partake in those activities anyway.
The agency's action ignores the government's own role in creating a black market in the first place.
D.C. is destroying its thriving cannabis industry with bureaucracy and red tape.
On Friday, the DEA unveiled a plan to restrict doctors' ability to prescribe controlled drugs over telehealth.
It is hard to find evidence of this "disturbing trend."
The paper pushes modest reforms while endorsing continued criminalization.
The president reaped political benefits with his pre-election proclamation but has yet to follow through.
Is it just to punish the many for the excesses of the few?
The longest-serving California senator was a hardline drug warrior, a surveillance hawk, and no friend of freedom.
Because legislators omitted a crucial letter, there is no straightforward way to downgrade convictions for offenses that are no longer felonies.
The CDC’s revised prescribing guidelines retain an anti-opioid bias and do nothing to reverse the harmful policies inspired by the 2016 version.
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Cannabis consumers should have the same commercial leisure spaces that alcohol drinkers do.
Over 88 percent of opioid overdose deaths now involve either heroin or fentanyl. Targeting prescriptions is not an efficient way to address mortality.
And increase total health care costs to boot.
As Biden mentioned fentanyl deaths in his State of the Union address, Republicans called on him to close the border. But "open borders" aren't to blame for overdoses.
These days, he may run for president. His politics have changed.
The government argued that marijuana users have no Second Amendment rights because they are dangerous, unvirtuous, and untrustworthy.
Gov. Andy Beshear issued a conditional pardon aimed at protecting people who use marijuana for medical purposes from criminal prosecution.
The senator bemoans the "cannabis crisis" he helped maintain by blocking the SAFE Banking Act.
According to a lawsuit, Amir Worship was sitting on the edge of his bed with his hands raised when an officer shot him, shattering his kneecap.
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Federal sentences for simple marijuana possession dropped by 93 percent over seven years.
A last-minute injunction gets tossed, allowing the state to give Robert Fratta a lethal dose of pentobarbital.
As the drug war retreats, individualist approaches to substance use and abuse will make us all better off.
Andrew Tatarsky and Maia Szalavitz push individualist approaches to substance abuse as the drug war retreats.
Like other authorizations for the use of military force—or AUMFs—it would be an unnecessary, unwise expansion of executive power.
A ballot initiative approved in November decriminalizes consumption of natural psychedelics.
A North Carolina detective may have inhaled a significant amount during a drug bust.
Defendants say this practice violates the state’s own laws. The attorney general is pushing onward anyway.
