Mexico, the next Latin American country on the brink of legalization. Mexico City bustles with fluid nightlife. In the Zona Rosa, gay, bisexual and straight bounce around...
This story is absolutely heartbreaking but I think it is story that needs to be told. No commentary is necessary to highlight the (forgive my neologism) “f#@ked-upness”...
Arrested for possession of marijuana, a woman is placed in a Texas county jail while awaiting her day in court; once there she is repeatedly brutalized and...
by Sabrina Fendrick, Director of Women’s Outreach, May 30, 2013 As more women are drawn to Humboldt County’s marijuana trade and off-grid lifestyle, a local battered-women’s shelter...
Yesterday’s historic “420” rally in Denver, the first since Colorado voted to legalize marijuana last fall, was marred and cut short by violence. Two unidentified gunmen shot...
012, 11:34am The Fire Next Door: Mexico’s Drug Violence and the Danger to America by Ted Galen Carpenter (2012, Cato Institute, 307 pp., $16.57 HB Amazon) Drug War...
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...
Let’s be honest. If you thought prisons were drug free you weren’t really paying attention. But all drugs aren’t the same. Stimulants such as alcohol and cocaine...
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...
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...
LEAP co-founder and retired police captain, Peter Christ, appears on WGRZ-TV in Buffalo, NY and takes on all aspects of our country’s disastrous War on Drugs. Christ is...
02:16am Mexico must take decisive action to rein in the systematic and widespread use of torture, ill-treatment, and other human rights abuses, which have increased dramatically...
Phoenix Medical Marijuana Grower Martin Ridgway, who was shot and stabbed inside his Surprise home yesterday during a robbery, was actually running a “compassion club” out of his...
The Irony of It All is an older tune from the now defunct UK band The Streets but its words still ring completely true. The video matches the equally fantastic...
The Young Turks Network shreds Drug Enforcement Agency Chief Michele Leonhart for saying “It may seem contradictory, but the unfortunate level of violence is a sign of success in...
Even though the US uses both the carrot and the stick in strong arming other nations into supporting the failed war on drugs, nations like Mexico can’t...
