The elimination of criminal penalties for drug possession offenses is associated with lower overall substance use among young people, according to a study published online this month in the...
Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP—the drug czar’s office) head Gil Kerlikowske said Tuesday that the country is “in the midst of a serious national conversation...
012, 11:21am In some ways, 2012 has been a year of dramatic, exciting change in drug policy, as the edifice of global drug prohibition appears to crumble...
It has been nearly seven weeks since voters in Colorado and Washington made history, enacting at the ballot box unprecedented measures legalizing the adult possession on cannabis. Yet...
During an interview with HuffPo Live yesterday, Newark Mayor and potential gubernatorial candidate Cory Booker made some very strong statements in favor of drug law reform. When asked...
10:03pm I have criticized the ease with which some media outlets and even some reformers have accepted the argument made by prohibitionist advocates that courts are certain to...
Breaking his silence on the topic of marijuana legalization since two states approved ballot initiatives to regulate cannabis, President Barack Obama addressed the issue in an interview with Barbara...
According to Rolling Stone: “There are not many friends to legalization in this administration,” says Kevin Sabet, director of the Drug Policy Institute at the University of Florida...
Sixty-four percent of Americans oppose federal interference in state laws that allow for the legal use of the substance by adults, according to a random sampling of 1,015 adults...
06:02pm The libertarian Cato Institute has published a Policy Analysis, “On the Limits of Federal Supremacy: When States Relax (or Abandon) Marijuana Bans.” The author of...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department will announce “relatively soon” its policy on recently passed state measures legalizing the use of marijuana as “there is a...
10:42pm A slight majority of adults say the federal government should not attempt to enforce federal marijuana laws in states which have voted to legalize it,...
Adults in Washington state will be able to smoke marijuana legally on Thursday, even though the Justice Department has offered no guidance on the conflict with federal...
United States Representatives have introduced bipartisan legislation in Congress — House Bill 6606, The Respect States’ and Citizens’ Rights Act of 2012 — to amend the US Controlled...
San Francisco’s Shambhala Healing Center has decided to reopen its doors after Obama’s Justice Department assault on California’s medical marijuana dispensaries this summer. Recently there’s been no letters...
012, 04:02pm In the wake of this month’s vote in Colorado to legalize marijuana, which won with 55% of the vote, a bipartisan group from the state’s...