In the days between Election Day and the announcement of Joe Biden as the projected winner of the presidential race, even as national election results remained muddy, one thing was crystal clear: the American public ...
From the drug war to Plan Colombia to support for right-wing paramilitary groups, decades of US interference in Colombia has caused so much instability that to this day, the country is still reeling from it. ...
Marijuana is on the ballot in South Dakota in November this year. This is a state that has the dubious distinction of being the only one to twice defeat a medical marijuana initiative. And it ...
With signature-gathering deadlines for drug reform initiatives now having passed nearly everywhere, the picture of where voters will have a chance to vote on them in November becomes clearer—although not yet finalized because state officials ...
Florida’s large population and its status as a swing state means that the prohibition on felons’ voting has national impacts. On July 16 the Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling, which will likely prevent ...
Just as we want to radically redefine the role of police in our local communities, so we must radically redefine the role of military personnel in the global community. Since George Floyd was murdered, we ...
Society doesn’t need a large group with a license to kill. Recent protests, catalyzed by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, call for an end to racist police violence. With their actions, the protesters ...
For nearly a decade now, a collection of former heads of state, high political figures, businessmen, and cultural figures have been working to reform drug policy at the national and international levels. Known as the Global ...
Arresting and imprisoning people for drug offenses is a luxury America’s biggest cities are finding they can no longer afford as they struggle with the coronavirus pandemic. Now, citing the need for social distancing measures, ...
America shows signs of emerging from the century-long shadow of drug prohibition, with marijuana leading the way and a psychedelic decriminalization movement rapidly gaining steam. America shows signs of emerging from the century-long shadow of ...
“While there are serious prospects for legalization at the statehouse in a handful of state this year—think Connecticut, New Mexico, New York, and Rhode Island—a number of other states are seeing marijuana legalization or medical marijuana initiative campaigns ...
Drug reform achieved some major milestones in 2020 including reining in civil asset forfeiture and freeing thousands of inmates under the First Step Act. As the clock ticks down toward 2020, it’s worth taking a ...
The most serious harmful effect of treating ecstasy use and sales as a criminal matter is that users are forced into an unregulated, no-quality-control black market, and they don’t know what they’re getting. Every weekend, hundreds ...
“Our current drug laws distort the priorities of police, who end up spending too much time arresting people for being addicted to drugs instead of focusing on community safety.” The groundwork is being laid now ...
“Our results are consistent with theories that predict that marijuana legalization will displace illicit criminal organizations and decrease crime.” Two economists affiliated with the Philadelphia Federal Reserve looked at the effects of marijuana legalization on ...
There are now more black people in correctional control (prison, jail, probation, or parole) than there were enslaved in 1850. Sen. Bernie Sanders released a sweeping plan to overhaul America’s criminal justice system on Sunday, ...
“The federal government is out of touch and our cannabis laws are out of date. I’m pleased that the House agrees, and we are able to move forward.” (StopTheDrugWar) In a history-making vote Thursday, the ...
“When they passed the First Step Act, sentences like Sonny’s are the wrong they were trying to right. He had never done a day in prison and then got a mandatory life sentence as a ...
Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs in the Philippines has claimed thousands of lives and shows no end in sight. Since his inauguration as President of the Philippines in 2016, Rodrigo Duterte has launched an ...
“Legalizing marijuana is the smart thing to do and the right thing to do in order to advance justice and equality for every American.” A bill known as the Marijuana Justice Act which was first ...
(StopTheDrugWar) It’s been a year we couldn’t wait to put behind us, but as 2018 comes to an end, we can look back on some advances on the international drug policy front, as well as ...
Set in one of the world’s most dangerous cities, To Live and Die in Manila gives a vital voice to the musicians putting their life on the line for their right to showcase creativity that their country ...
This time, of course, is an era in which Donald Trump is President of the United States and the effective leader of the Republican Party, and unrepentant obstructionist Mitch McConnell is the Senate Majority Leader ...
How addiction and alcohol use disorder (AUD) in the United States is approached has proven ineffective, punitive, and inadequate, according to many experts working in the field. Johann Hari, a Swiss-British writer and journalist covering ...
Marijuana decreases crime: dispensaries actually increase the ‘walkability score’ of a neighborhood which deters criminal activity. “Good people don’t smoke marijuana.” – Jeff Sessions, Attorney General “I reject the idea that America will be a better ...
Former Nixon official John Ehrlichman admits drug war was an excuse to lock up blacks and anti-war left. In the April 2016 issue of Harper’s Magazine writer Dan Baum talks about the time he interviewed ...
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