The shift is widely described as generational. A Gallup poll in October found 44 percent of Americans favor full legalization of marijuana -- a rise o...
AP | MARCUS WOHLSEN | Posted 10.07.2009 | Home
SAN FRANCISCO — Marijuana advocates are gathering signatures to get as many as three pot-legalization measures on the ballot in 2010 in Californ...
Norm Stamper | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
Australians are acutely aware that the U.S. is and has been since 1971 the chest-thumping, fist-banging four-star general in the global war on drugs. Their willingness to stand up to our bullying ways is growing.
Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
In December 2008, just months before Manuel Zelaya was ousted from power by the Honduran military, he wrote Barack Obama and complained of U.S. "interventionism."
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
Someone is arrested in the United States for a drug-law violation every 18 seconds, an FBI report released Monday shows. More than four-fifths of th...
Chicago Public Radio | Travis Truitt | Posted 08.24.2009 | Chicago
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn says he's open to local efforts to decriminalize marijuana....
Ross Hyzer | Posted 07.28.2009 | Comedy
Last week, to the delighted huzzahs of Government Mule fans the world over, Rep. Barney Frank introduced two pieces of marijuana-related legislation.
Benjamin Todd Jealous | Posted 05.12.2009 | Politics
Repeal of New York state's Rockefeller drug laws signals a perfect storm for changing our expensive, ineffective, and discriminatory drug laws.
Washington Post | Karl Vick | Posted 05.12.2009 | Politics
With little notice and even less controversy, marijuana is now available as a medical treatment in California to almost anyone who tells a willing phy...
TIME | Joe Klein | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics
For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of right...
Emily Jane Goodman | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics
Under existing law, despite the public perception of powerful judges, it is the state, through its prosecutors, and not its judges, that calls the shots on judgment day.
Jamie Fellner | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics
It only takes fifteen minutes in any courthouse, watching the parade of black defendants arrested on drug charges, to realize racism still haunts us.
NBC Chicago | Posted 01.02.2009 | Chicago
South Suburban city Chicago Heights passed a new ordinance Monday making possession of less than 30 grams of marijuana a ticketable offense, NBC Chic...
Randy Credico | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics
Williams' woeful tale reads like an Americanized version of a Russian novel -- a tome written in four full boxes of records concerning his arrest, interrogation, trial, incarceration and appeals.
Heather Tirado Gilligan and Nikki Jones | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home
The Obama/Biden plan is neither abstract nor ideological--it targets the root causes of racial disparity in the criminal justice system in the United States.
Huffington Post | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
A recent web advertisement has turned around Hillary's original 3 AM ad and turned it into a powerful call for the New York senator to address New Yor...
Washington Post | Karl Vick | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics