Top Democratic senators filed a new spending bill report that calls out the federal government over the failures of the…
Since President Biden took office, there have been at least 6,356 attacks against people whom the US had expelled to…
Decrying “tough-on-crime” policies, a group of more than 100 law enforcement leaders, mostly prosecutors, sent a letter to President Joe…
Among prohibitionists and proponents of the drug war, drug courts are touted as a means of diverting people from incarceration.…
At a press conference on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared “drug abuse” to be “public enemy number one”…
It’s a Rio de Janeiro classic. Officers of the civil, military or army police make an incursion into a favela.…
On April 8, the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) spearheaded a coalition—including the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the…
Maine lawmakers have formally introduced a bill to broadly decriminalize possession of all currently illicit drugs—the latest state-based move to…
On December 4, the US House of Representatives passed the Marijuana Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act—the bill that would effectively…
It took the caught-on-camera murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin—and weeks of massive street protests, clashes…