Drug Policy

Jillette: If Obama Were Arrested Under His Laws, He'd Be In Prison

The Huffington Post | Christine Friar | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Jillete Obama Dugs, Video, Marijuana, States Rights, Penn Jillette Sunday School, Drugs, War on Drugs, Obama Drug Policy, Penn Jillette, Barack Obama, Drug Policy, Cocaine, Comedy News

In a recent episode of his podcast "Penn's Sunday School," comedian Penn Jillette laid his opinions on the Obama drug policies out on the table. J...

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Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks about The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 3)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Jim Crow, Bill Clinton, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Prison Industrial Complex, Ronald Reagan, Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon, Drug War, Edward Byrne Memorial Grant Program, Michelle Alexander, Mass Incarceration, Illegal Immigrants, Private Prisons, Obama Drug War, Drug Policy, Politics News

Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

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Obama Campaign Nightmare

Richard Feldman | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Gun Control, Obama, Drug Policy, Gun Rights, Marijuana, Romney, Presidential Race, Poll, 2012 Election, Obama Campaign, Romeny Campaign, Politics News

The question is, will the Romney campaign understand the relationships between these two freedom- and liberty-related issues and pilot a course to maximize gun owners' fear and marijuana reformers' distrust?

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Playing Tough While Communities Suffer

Rep. Charles Rangel | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Drug Policy, Drug Epidemic, Anti-Drug Abuse Act, Drug Abuse Epidemic, Drug Abuse, Crack-Cocaine Equitable Sentencing Act, Fair Sentencing Act, Crime News

Too many aspects of the current justice system permanently marginalize and disenfranchise ex-offenders. That is what makes too many of our communities dangerous.

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The Obama Administration Is Wrong to Deny American Farmers a Profitable Crop

Eric Steenstra | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Farming, Hemp Production, Hemp Legalization, Hemp, Farmers, Agriculture, Cannabis, Obama Drug Policy, Gil Kerlikowske, Obama Administration, Eric Holder, Industrial Hemp, Drug Policy, Politics News

Despite growing consumer demand for these eco-friendly and healthy products, the U.S. remains the only industrialized nation in the world that allows the importation and sale of hemp raw materials and finished goods, but bans its farmers from growing the crop.

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When Does "Pro-Life" Equal "Pro-Imprisonment"?

Lynn M. Paltrow | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Pro-Life Movement, Fetal Personhood, Abortion, Bei Bei Shuai, Alabama, Chemical Endangerment, Criminal Justice, Pro-Life, The Liberty Counsel, Jennie McCormack, Reproductive Justice, Drug Policy, Politics News

The Liberty Counsel has established that the "pro-life" position is "pro-punishment," not just for doctors who perform abortions, but also for pregnant women who have no intention of ending their pregnancies and go to term.

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A Drug Policy for the 21st Century

R. Gil Kerlikowske | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Meth, Alternatives, Third Way, Education, Prevention, Marijuana, Public Health, Treatment, Enforcement, Harm Reduction, Obama, Heroin, War on Drugs, Drug Policy, Public Safety, Cocaine, Drug Addiction, Drugs, Politics News

Today we are releasing the 2012 National Drug Control Strategy -- the Obama Administration's primary policy blueprint for reducing drug use and its consequences in America. It is based on the premise that drug addiction is a chronic disease of the brain that can be prevented and treated.

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"New" White House Drug Control Strategy: New Rhetoric, Same Failed Policies

Bill Piper | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: War on Drugs, Drug Policy, Politics News

The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (more commonly known as the drug czar's office) released its 2012 National Drug Control Strategy today. The strategy is nearly identical to previous national drug strategies.

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Setting the Record Straight: Responding to the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic

R. Gil Kerlikowske | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Addiction, Public Health, Drug Policy, Drug Policy Reform, Prescription Drugs, Pain Killers, Recovery, Prescription Painkillers, Addiction and Recovery, Mental Health, Painkillers, Painkiller Addiction, Healthy Living Health News, Painkiller Abuse, Prescription Drug Abuse, Politics News

The Obama administration has adopted a mainstream approach to the drug problem, employing a balance of public health and safety approaches to reduce drug use and its consequences. All of these policies are grounded in science and research -- not politics or ideology.

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U.N. Misses Opportunity to Address Failed Drug War

James Gierach | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Leap, War on Drugs, Drug War, United Nations, Drugs, Drug Policy, Commission on Narcotic Drugs, World News

The world is fraught with too much violence, too much crime, too much addiction, too many overdose cases, too many prisons, too many bullet holes, too many AIDS cases, and too many bills related to prohibition. The war on drugs has proved to be public enemy number one.

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Does Medical Marijuana Increase Drug Use?

Kevin A. Sabet, Ph.D. | Posted 02.10.2012

Read More: Medical Marijuana, Drug Policy, Legalize Marijuana, Marijuana, Marijuana Legalization, Pot, Crime News

It's time to get the legalization lobby out of the business of medical marijuana and instead focus our attention on scientists developing non-smoked marijuana-based medications for the truly ill. That would make this issue no longer the sick joke that it is today.

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Not Your Father's Drug Prevention Program

Kevin A. Sabet, Ph.D. | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Marijuana, Alcohol, Drug Czar, Drugs, Substance Abuse, Tobacco, Drug Prevention, Drug Policy, Politics News

The Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America will welcome more than 2,500 delegates from across the country for the 22nd Annual National Leadership Forum in National Harbor, MD, just outside Washington. And they have a lot to show for their more than two-decades of work.

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Silence Says a Lot: An Open Letter to Google About Marijuana Legalization

Stephen Downing | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Google, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Youtube, Leap, Marijuana Legalization, Marijuana, Google+ Hangouts, Video, Barack Obama, Obama Google Plus Hangout, Google Plus, Google+, President Obama, Drug Policy Reform, Drug Policy, Politics News

In more than twenty years with the Los Angeles Police Department, where I retired as deputy chief of police, I saw a lot of puzzling behavior at close range. This week I saw some odd behavior from Google, YouTube and President Obama.

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Barrage Of Pot-Related Questions Ignored In Obama's Online Chat

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Google, Obama Online Chat, Video, Obama Adminstration, Marijuana, Google Plus, Youtube, Obama Marijuana Questions, Obama Marijuana Legalization, Drug Policy, Politics News

WASHINGTON, DC -- President Barack Obama in an online "conversation" with American voters on Monday, failed to answer a barrage of questions about mar...

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The Carnage in Mexico: Do We Care?

Norm Stamper | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Drug War, Drug Policy, Drug Trafficking, Mexico, War on Drugs, Mexico Drug War, Mexico Drug Violence, Mexico Drug Cartels, World News

American drug policy, and our gutless, unreasoned refusal to change it, has caused the epic violence south of the border.

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How to Write a Clichéd, Unpersuasive Argument Against Drug Legalization

Scott Morgan | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Medical Marijuana, War on Drugs, Legalization, Marijuana, Drug Policy, Ron Paul, American Spectator, Politics News

Let's take a moment to review some of the tactics on display here, which may go a long way towards illustrating why modern drug war apologists have been losing traction in the growing public debate over American drug policy.

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Coloradan Arrested With Almost 50 Lbs. Of Marijuana

Posted 01.13.2012

Read More: Video, Man Arrested With 50 Lbs Marijuana, Marijuana Bust, Transporting Marijuana, Michael Baker, Christopher Hansen, Drug Policy, Smuggling Marijuana, Denver News

A Colorado man was arrested in Nebraska Wednesday afternoon after state troopers there found him transporting a large amount of marijuana and hashish....

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Youth Drug Use: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

R. Gil Kerlikowske | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: K2, Marijuana, Spice, Public Health, Synthetic Marijuana, Drug Policy, Public Safety, Teen Drugs, Teen Drug Abuse, Teen Drug Use, Drug Statistics, Teen Drug Statistics, Health News, Healthy Living News

Last week, I joined officials from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Department of Health and Human Services to announce the results of the largest annual survey on youth drug use in America.

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Drug Courts: Enter At Your Own Risk

Margaret Dooley-Sammuli | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Drug Addiction, Drug Courts, Drug Treatment, Drug Policy Alliance, Recidivism, Incarceration, Public Health, Drugs, Drug Policy, Crime News

The drug war is forty years old this year. It's time to step back and ask ourselves what's the best way to solve the problem we're trying to solve -- how to reduce drug abuse and addiction -- and use the best available evidence to guide us.

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Fixing Our Drug Policy Will Require A Hatchet, Not A Scalpel

Scott Morgan | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Marijuana, John Walters, Gil Kerlikowske, Drug Czar, Medical Marijuana, War on Drugs, Obama Drug Policy, Barack Obama, Drug Policy, Politics News

Despite our disappointment with the substance of Obama's policy on controlled substances, we can and should applaud the president for at least understanding that the thoughtless tough-on-drugs pandering of the 80s and 90s has no place in modern American politics.

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Strange Bongfellows? Newt Gingrich and Marijuana

Steve Heilig | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Medical Marijuana, Drug Policy, Newt Gingrich, Marijuana, Pot, War on Drugs, Newt Gingrich 2012, Politics News

The Republican from Georgia was embarking on his first rise and fall as King of the Hill, but he had a way with words and seemingly a good grip on the true conservative's creed of minimal governmental interference in private lives.

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Chris Christie Speaks Out Against The Drug War

Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Chris Christie Drug War, Chris Christie, Drug Treatment, Chris Christie War on Drugs, Drug War, Marijuana, Mitt Romney, Medical Marijuana, Governor Chris Christie, New Jersey Drug Court, War on Drugs, Drug Policy, Video, Mitt Romney 2012, Drug Policy Reform, Politics News

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) spoke out against the war on drugs on Monday, saying that "we need to do much different and much better than what w...

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The War on Drugs Has Failed - It's Time for a New Approach

Amanda Feilding | Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: The Beckley Foundation, Cannabis Markets, Regulation, Drug Markets, Drugs, Policy, Lsd, Decriminalisation, Drug Policy, Cannabis, Drug Decriminalisation, Taboo, Un Conventions, Amanda Feilding, Taxation, Robin Room, UK Politics News

There is much debate as to what the best model of future drug control might look like, but the important thing is not the specific policy to be implemented, but the principles upon which they will be founded and the freedom for countries to experiment with new approaches.

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Losing Hearts and Minds in the Drug War

Norm Stamper | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Law Enforcement, Crime, Police, Marijuana, Drug War, Criminal Justice, Drugs, Marijuana Legalization, War on Drugs, Drug Policy, Politics News

In the forty years since Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs," Americans' perceptions of that war are finally beginning to shift.

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Congress on Speed: Partisan Conflict Led to Many Problems in 1986 Drug Law

Eric E. Sterling | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: War on Drugs, Drug Policy, Drug Laws, Drug-Free Schools Program, 1986 Drug Law, Crime News

If Congress were functioning properly, it would take the time to consider the many potential improvements in drug policy that could save lives by preventing overdose, reducing the spread of HIV, and lessening violence, preventing crime, and saving money.

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