A 17-year-old girl who was strip searched, including a cavity check, on a Carnival cruise ship after dropping what looked like marijuana may seek punitive damages, a...
A high school basketball star caught selling marijuana off campus cannot sue the police for arresting him at school, though a federal judge was “deeply troubled” by...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday shut down opponents of the U.S. government’s warrantless surveillance program, finding they lack standing. It is an admitted fact that the government...
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta Tuesday upheld a preliminary injunction blocking Florida’s 2011 law requiring welfare applicants to take and pass a drug test....
The Republican-controlled Indiana House voted overwhelmingly Monday to approve a “reasonable suspicion” drug testing bill for welfare recipients. House Bill 1483 advanced to the state Senate on a 78-17...
A bill that would have required welfare recipients to undergo drug testing died Friday in the North Dakota House. It was defeated soundly on a 72-19 vote....
013 Dozens of Honolulu and Hawaii police used a battering ram in a pointless attack on a house, armed with a bogus affidavit from a helicopter pilot...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday relaxed the standards for courts to consider vehicle searches prompted by an alert from a drug-sniffing dog. Writing for the unanimous panel, Justice...
An elderly Texas couple driving home was pulled over in the Memphis area, for no other reason than an Ohio State Buckeyes sticker that was confused with a marijuana leaf...
special to Drug War Chronicle by investigative journalist Clarence Walker, cwalkerinvestigate@gmail.com A case that began with reports of suspicious activity in northeast Wisconsin forest land last spring may...
Nine marijuana collectives claim in court that the Long Beach Police Department is using illegal, unconstitutional tactics to put them out of business. The nine collectives and...
012 Electronic Freedom Foundation board member and drug policy reform activist John Gilmore memo: EFF.ORG (where I’m on the board) filed a Freedom of Information request to FAA about...
Who knew throwing a cigarette butt out of your car window in Texas (sure it’s littering) would lead to a publicly humiliating body cavity search under the...
After fierce internal controversy, the White House has reportedly authorized a vast expansion of spying capabilities, including the ability to investigate innocent citizens. One senior official called the...
A brick of marijuana that Border Patrol agents found in a boy’s pants while frisking him illegally should have been excluded as evidence, the 9th Circuit ruled...
The United States government is set to vote on an e-mail privacy bill which, if passed, will enable government agencies to read Americans’ e-mails without warrants as...
It started almost 50 years ago, when even I was a kid. The assassination of JFK shook people’s faith in stability, but it took the Warren Commission report to shake their...
Two men facing drug charges cannot exclude surveillance images of their marijuana grow site that police captured without a warrant, a federal judge ruled. Law enforcement installed...
05:55pm The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a pair of cases out of Florida involving the use of drug sniffing dogs. One case is...
The Institute for Justice, a Libertarian think-tank, has put out a new video highlighting the dangers drug forfeiture laws pose to everyday citizens and how little it...
