Criminal justice reform has made significant advances during my time in the movement. But the continuing influence of the carceral…
On September 25, Amy Coney Barrett, a staunchly conservative judge for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, was named as…
For two years in a row now, political efforts to legalize marijuana in the state of New York have gone…
Virginia has a new "Good Samaritan" law designed to protect people who call 911 for a drug-related health emergency from…
At the start of the summer, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) announced it had found thousands, and potentially…
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called for police to double down on the war on drug users while speaking to…
Recent public attention to police brutality, systemic racism and oppression has brought calls for changes to a policing structure that…
Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) took executive action on October 1 to pardon nearly 3,000 people with low-level marijuana convictions.…
On September 21, the City Council of Ann Arbor, Michigan voted unanimously to decriminalize naturally occurring psychedelics. It becomes the…
The grand jury’s decision in the Breonna Taylor case is infuriating. It was also, perhaps, inevitable. While scholars will spend…