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...
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...
At least the failed war on cannabis provides never-ending ingenuity to chuckle at: US Border Patrol agents found marijuana inside soup cans inside of larger cans and sealed on...
11:21am The Czech Republic took a big step last week toward becoming the next European country to approve the use of medical marijuana. Last Friday, the...
Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group and a member of the Global Drug Commission poses the simple question on drug prohibition; What do we have to...
03:24pm Dutch Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten told parliament last week that the government intends to classify marijuana with a THC content of 15% or more as a Class...
An Argentine politician’s political career is at risk after she tweeted a photo of a cannabis plant in her Buenos Aires home. Gabriela Cerruti is being called a “drug pusher,”...
02:57pm Even as Uruguay considers a groundbreaking proposal from President Jose Mujica to legalize state-regulated marijuana cultivation and sales, parliamentarians from most of the leading political...
02:46pm The parliament of Singapore has approved legislation abolishing mandatory death sentences in some drug trafficking cases. The action came last Wednesday, according to a press...
02:12pm A deputy from Mexico’s left-leaning Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) Thursday introduced a bill (not yet posted) to legalize the use, cultivation, and sale of marijuana....
01:31pm The president of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Thursday voiced “grave concern” about the votes legalizing marijuana in the US states of Colorado and...
03:59pm A Uruguayan bill that would create a system of state-licensed marijuana sales and commercial cultivation was presented to Congress Wednesday, and, according to Reuters, includes...
A 6-year study of Britain’s drug laws by the UK Drug Policy Commission, an independent advisory body of leading scientists, police officers, academics and experts has concluded it’s time for decriminalization and...
01:08pm Of all the fascinating reactions I’ve seen to Colorado and Washington’s successful marijuana legalization initiatives, this is by far the most extraordinary. MEXICO CITY —...
03:06pm Last Tuesday’s legalization votes are reverberating not just across the country, but across the hemisphere. Five conservative Latin American heads of state said in a joint...
01:51pm Along with catalyzing devastating violence that has claimed 60,000 lives thus far, there’s another good reason for Mexico to end its ill-fated drug war —...
04:18pm With US public support for marijuana legalization now at the 50% mark, and state legalization efforts now starting to come to fruition, people are naturally...
03:47pm France looks to be the latest European country to embrace the harm-reduction practice of providing supervised injection sites, according to France 24 TV. Facilities could be...
A 17-year-old Japanese boy was sentenced to six months in prison Thursday for possessing a small amount of marijuana while vacationing with family on Indonesia’s resort island...
