The passage of medical cannabis laws is associated with a reduction in the public’s consumption of alcohol and with fewer incidences of alcohol-related traffic fatalities, according to data published...
Effort is aimed at protecting Washington’s medical marijuana law while state implements full legalization initiative Medical marijuana patients across Washington have begun a campaign called “Health Before...
US Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday a comprehensive federal sentencing reform package with a strong emphasis on drug sentencing. He said he will direct US Attorneys...
A proposal to put a medical marijuana amendment before Ohio voters this November (which gathered more than double the required signatures) has been rejected by Attorney General...
San Diego County took two little children away from their parents for a year, and lied about it, because the father used medical marijuana on the advice...
The Huffington Post describes MPP’s Rob Kampia’s recent predictions about marijuana policy, including which states will be next to legalize recreational marijuana: Alaska and Rhode Island, as...
The New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk tactics that target minorities are unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Monday. The ongoing practice of stopping innocent minority youth –...
In a country where it is increasingly difficult to find a living and breathing person willing to publicly debate in favor of maintaining cannabis prohibition’s status quo,...
“Weed World vans around NYC are selling phony marijuana pops that don’t contain pot,” reads the New York Post headline, and below it, a banner screaming “EXCLUSIVE.” That paper’s intrepid...
The remarkable man who encouraged legislation by doing absolutely nothing. After four years at the helm of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske has...
The Denver City Council is holding a meeting this afternoon to discuss the regulation of recreational marijuana in the city. Among the issues the council will address...
Like other countries around the world, New Zealand has been grappling with the rise of the new synthetic drugs, such as the stimulant-type drugs known as “bath...
Two separate medical marijuana initiative campaigns aimed at the November 2014 ballot are underway in Arkansas. A similar effort to legalize medical marijuana failed in 2012, but...
Weedists: Meet Michael Brooks “Weedists are the people who are out there fighting the good fight and these are their stories.” Michael Brooks represents a new trend,...
Heavily redacted Border Patrol records deprived an alleged marijuana smuggler of his right to challenge the reliability of a drug-sniffing dog, the 9th Circuit ruled Thursday. Jonathan...
Special to Drug War Chronicle by Houston-based investigative journalist Clarence Walker, cwalkerinvestigate@gmail.com Part 6 in a series, “Prosecutorial Misconduct and Police Corruption in Drug Cases Across America.” There...
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces, by Radley Balko (2013, Public Affairs Press, 382 pp., $18.57 HB Amazon) Whatever happened to Officer...
