The NAACP reiterates its call for marijuana legalization and adds a call for workers' rights, Ron DeSantis doubles down on harsh rhetoric directed at Mexican drug cartels, and more. NAACP Renews ...

StoptheDrugWar.org commends the arrest by Philippine authorities this morning of former President Rodrigo Duterte, under an International Criminal Court warrant served by Interpol. During his ...

In November 2020, voters in Oregon made history by becoming the first in the country to break with a century of drug war by approving the decriminalization of drug possession. Measure 110 not only put ...

A San Francisco narc gets fired for having a sexual relationship with a snitch, a DHS officer heads for federal prison after getting stung, and more. In San Francisco, a veteran narcotics detective ...

Wisconsin doesn't allow legal marijuana or even medical marijuana, but unregulated intoxicating hemp products are for sale on store shelves across the state. Now, lawmakers in Madison are studying ...

.50 caliber rifles are among the most powerful weapons civilians can buy in the United States. The anti-armor sniper rifles were designed for military use and can strike a target from more than a mile ...

The state Senate on Monday approved Senate Bill 235 also known as "Tyler's Law" after an 18-year-old who died of a fentanyl overdose, which would impose a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for some ...

You can urine test them. You can take away their financial aid for college. But you can't stop the kids from getting high. Some people will try anything, and I don't think arresting them is going to ...

The state Senate voted 35-13 Wednesday to approve Senate Bill 250, which would align state law with the federal ban on intoxicating and synthetic hemp products set to go into effect in November. The ...

In an election that has overturned a decades-long status quo in Colombian politics, former leftist guerrilla and Bogota mayor Gustavo Petro won the presidency on Sunday. He beat his competitor, ...

The Silver Bullet Solution: Is It Time to End the War on Drugs? by James E. Gierach (2023, Histria Books, 341 pp., $29.99 HB) Jim Gierach is a former Cook County, Illinois, prosecutor, occasional ...

In the ongoing struggle among congressional Democrats over whether to prioritize incremental marijuana reform legislation over pushing for full federal legalization, proponents of the former saw a ...