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…
Since George Floyd was horrifically murdered by Minneapolis cops on May 25, events have unfolded dramatically, and amid worldwide protests,…
Do you feel that some drugs are inherently worse for the user than others?” A man had approached the stage…