The cities of Denver, Colorado and Oakland, California made history this spring by decriminalizing, respectively, psilocybin mushrooms and all federal…
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) just filed a non-binding resolution in the US House of Representatives calling for sweeping criminal justice…
Ask your doctor about methamphetamine. It's not a phrase you'll ever hear on TV or the radio, but here's a…
On the streets of Newark, New Jersey, a fledgling group of community activists has come together to protect fellow residents…
Judges are generally held out as impartial, emotionally even-keeled arbiters of the law. Perhaps ignorance is bliss. That’s what Indiana…
Let’s play a game. I’m going to describe a scene, and you guess which movie it’s from. A thin, Black…
Amid the overdose crisis, drug warrior district attorneys across the US have added a new tool to their prosecutorial arsenal:…
On November 9, Representative Barbara Lee (D) of California's 13th Congressional district ("the wokest district in the nation!" as she…
It turns out that folks would rather be the CEO of a dollar than the co-owner of one thousand dollars,”…
The United States has state-level laws that criminalize pregnant people who use drugs, separate families, and require clinicians to report…