Obama Weighs In On Drug Legalization 'Debate'
Obama said he doesn't "mind a debate" over drug legalization even though he doesn't believe it “is going to be the answer." “I don’t mind a d...
Obama said he doesn't "mind a debate" over drug legalization even though he doesn't believe it “is going to be the answer." “I don’t mind a d...
GlobalPost | Posted 04.12.2012
HAVANA, Cuba — When heads of state meet this weekend at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, two contentious issues are expected to do...
Kevin A. Sabet, Ph.D. | Posted 03.30.2012
These countries are pleading with the international community for cooperation and real solutions. Not only is legalization a nonstarter for them, it is insulting to them that we think their problems could be solved by such a policy.
Russ Belville | Posted 05.12.2012
Instead of getting lost in the quagmire of what everyone can agree is purely speculation on unreliable data -- nobody's ever legalized pot -- I decided to attack marijuana prohibition at its roots: why are we even concerned about trying to stop people from smoking pot in the first place?
Ethan Nadelmann | Posted 05.10.2012
After decades of being brutalized by the U.S. government's failed prohibitionist drug policies, Latin American leaders, including not just distinguished former presidents but also current presidents, are saying "enough is enough."
Neill Franklin | Posted 04.15.2012
"First it was Michael Jackson, then it was Amy Winehouse and now the magnificent Whitney Houston. I'd like to have every gentleman and lady in this room commit themselves to get our government to legalize drugs."
Stephen Hren | Posted 03.23.2012
It's not that there aren't millions or even tens of millions of Americans that are trying to solve our problems creatively and help create a just and egalitarian society, it's just that they have no power or voice. Consider the drug war.
AP | By PAUL J. WEBER | Posted 12.28.2011
SAN ANTONIO -- Ron Paul wants to legalize pot and shut down the Federal Reserve. He thinks the federal government has no authority to outlaw abortion,...
Robert Koehler | Posted 01.10.2012
Our war against marijuana -- at extraordinary human and economic cost -- illuminates a crying need for us to change the way we govern and look after ourselves.
The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.18.2011
Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson is baffled that more politicians don't support legalizing marijuana, after a new Gallup poll shows that...
The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.04.2011
Former New Mexico Governor and GOP presidential candidate Gary Johnson told Outside Magazine that legalizing marijuana was a popular political stance....
Neill Franklin | Posted 07.11.2011
History shows that no level of law enforcement talent, commitment, and resources can ever end activities that are very popular and obscenely profitable. Remember alcohol prohibition? The drug war today is little different.
Mark Osler | Posted 07.10.2011
Narcotics trafficking is a business, and we need to make that business fail. Instead of attacking labor, which is plentiful, we should attack the capital flow from the street to source countries.
Trish Regan | Posted 06.20.2011
Portugal shows the best way to keep kids away from pot is to make it legal for everyone else.
Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011
There's a powerful new piece of evidence that the war on drugs on the Mexican-American border is a lost cause.
Laura Carlsen | Posted 05.25.2011
Nearly all of that cooperation centers on the severely flawed approach to confront transnational drug-trafficking. The new relationship forged in war rooms is bad news for the Mexican people.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Less than two months after signing a letter calling for the legalization, taxation, and regulation of marijuana, Joe Miller was terminat...
Tony Newman | Posted 05.25.2011
Will cigarettes be illegal in the future? The battle over cigarettes is heating up -- and recent news shows that momentum to criminalize tobacco smoking continues to build in the U.S. and around the world.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Drug legalization is an "entirely legitimate topic for debate," President Barack Obama said Thursday during his online YouTube town hall...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011
In September of 2009, border patrol agent Bryan Gonzalez was fired for expressing his views on drug legalization to a fellow agent. Now, the American ...
AP | ROBIN HINDERY | Posted 05.25.2011
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A coalition of medical marijuana advocates came out Tuesday against a California ballot initiative that would legalize the ...
Daniel Robelo | Posted 05.25.2011
President Calderon's openness to debating legalization comes amid new recognition that the cartels are not just killing each other -- they are openly challenging the Mexican state.
Amanda Feilding | Posted 05.25.2011
When drugs are illegal there are vast profits to be made in their production, transport and sale. In areas of Mexico with high levels of unemployment and drug addiction there is an unbounded supply of labour for the cartels.
Posted 05.25.2011
With the body count from drug-related murders hitting 28,000 in his country, Mexican President Felipe Calderon is now joining calls for a debate on th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
When it's finally written -- if it's finally written -- the history of the American drug war will begin and end in the same town: San Francisco. The c...
The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 04.14.2012