New York City police racially profile blacks and Latinos to “manufacture” marijuana offenses against them, five Bronx residents claim in Federal Court. Lead plaintiff Maurosol Felix sued New...
At the California Democratic Party convention in Sacramento Saturday, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom called for marijuana legalization and described the war on drugs as “an abject failure.”...
Ben Jealous, president of the NAACP, said Tuesday “For about 40 years, we’ve decided that is how we solve almost every problem, whether it’s homelessness or drug addiction, we’ve gotten to...
An NYPD inspector parsed words over whether he set “quotas” or “performance goals” for the number of people he wanted arrested or summonsed, in a trial challenging...
A second Bronx police officer on Thursday told a federal judge why he recorded his superiors pressuring him to stop and frisk more young black and Latino...
The NYPD made 39,218 low-level marijuana possession arrests in 2012 (over 440,000 in past decade), each consuming an estimated 2.5 man hours of police work. Just a...
A federal judge certified the second of three class actions filed over the New York City Police Department’s controversial stop-and-frisk practices. Jaenean Ligon leads the class in...
In his final state of the city address Thursday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that people caught with small amounts of marijuana in the city will no...
New York City has earned itself the sobriquet of Marijuana Arrest Capital of the World, with tens of thousands of minor pot possession arrests every year —...
The Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the most senior member of the Senate, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) again spoke out against the War on Drugs...
In his State of the State address Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) called on the legislature to reform the state’s marijuana laws. Marijuana possession has...
Over a dozen NYC maternity wards regularly test new mothers for drugs, then hand the results over to child-protection authorities if they test positive for marijuana. Surprise…...
The New York City Police Department cannot keep tabs on more than 360,000 people entered into a stop-and-frisk database for subsequent investigation, a state appeals court ruled....
Arresting and prosecuting low-level marijuana offenders in New York City has little or no impact on law enforcement efforts to reduce violent crime, according to a study...
02:59pm Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate’s Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History, by James Higdon (2012, Lyons Press, 375 pp., $16.47...
While the discussion of marijuana policy may be noticeably absent from the current dialogue in the presidential race, one prominent Democratic Party member is not backing down...
“Offensive is really an understatement. It’s the most egregiously racist, false statement you’ve ever seen in your life,” Williams reportedly told the Little Rock crowd in regards to a...
Sir Richard Branson has labeled US drug policy as racist, stating that its a “war on black people” which results in the jailing of too many African Americans.
Washington voters should legalize marijuana and vote yes on Initiative 502 (I-502) because drug laws disproportionately harm African Americans and Latinos.
