For now, our jobs are the ones that our Filipino allies fighting Duterte had during the height of his drug war: stopping the killings; explaining what good drug policy is; reminding people that murder ...
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 ...
As 2009 prepares to become history, we look back at the past year's domestic drug policy developments. With the arrival of a highly popular (at least at first) new president, Barack Obama, and ...
Even though more than half the people strung out on drugs quit their habits without going through drug treatment, the rote response to illicit drug use by the addiction treatment establishment and the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is widely viewed as the father of the American hemp industry, given his role as then-Senate Majority Leader in pushing across the finish line the 2018 farm bill that ...
Congressional negotiators have come up with a spending bill that includes marijuana riders, a medical marijuana expansion bill is filed in Kentucky, and more. Bipartisan Congressional Spending Bill ...
The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oaklandby Ali Winston & Darwin Bondgraham (2023, Atria Books, 467 pp., $30 HB) The killing of Tyre Daniels by Memphis police ...
Read Phil's 2023 top ten domestic drug policy stories here. UN Human Rights Office Calls for Sweeping Drug Policy Reform, Considering Decriminalization and Regulation A UN human rights report released ...
As Congress moves toward passage of an appropriations bill that includes funding for the USDA and FDA, a fight over whether to regulate or ban products containing cannabinoids derived from hemp is ...