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...
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,...
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...
I recently took a trip to see President Abraham Lincoln’s home and presidential library in Springfield, Illinois. Since I learned as a child that he said, “It...
This story is absolutely heartbreaking but I think it is story that needs to be told. No commentary is necessary to highlight the (forgive my neologism) “f#@ked-upness”...
Last week, CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Drew Griffin reported on an investigation into California’s drug rehabilitation industry as part of the “Keeping them Honest” reports. What they...
Some would say by the weight of his sins. I say a person’s worth is based on his compassion. Michael Brooks, Re-Location Fund for Survival: When you...
On Huffington Post, Americans for Safe Access Executive Director Steph Sherer discusses her association’s report “What’s the Cost?”, which details the expenses of the federal government’s interference...
Thanks to the rotten Drug Free America Foundation, MPP’s “New Beer” legalization ad has been pulled from the Jumbotron at the NASCAR Brickyard 400. Since the ignorant...
“Our criminal-justice system has for decades been infected with a mind-set that views black boys and men in particular as a problem to be dealt with, managed and...
Weedists: Meet Deanna Jean “Weedists are the people who are out there fighting the good fight and these are their stories.” Deanna Jean, or DJ as she is...
The Executioner’s Men: Los Zetas, Rogue Soldiers, Criminal Entrepreneurs, and the Shadow State They Created, by George Grayson and Samuel Logan (2013, Transaction Publishers, 338 pp., $28.89...
As reported on Politix, the Obama administration has imprisoned almost as many medical marijuana growers in the first 6.5 years of this administration, as in the entire...
Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling by Sabrina Jones and Marc Mauer (2013, The New Press, 111 pp., $17.95 PB Amazon) Marc Mauer, the executive director of the The...
In a great article on Salon, Kristen Gwynne first examines the shady practice of asset forfeiture, then describes 4 shady drug bust tactics used by police: fake...
