Last week, the media was filled with headlines like "Sniffing Trumps Weed for 12 Year Olds," (CBS) and "Inhalant Abuse a Deadly Middle-School Concern,...
AP | EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ and MIKE MELIA | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — The Dominican Republic's most wanted man is an American who for 10 years has fed his mystique by pulling off...
Tony Newman | Posted 03.15.2010 | World
Since 2006, Mexico's war against drug cartels has led to the death of 15,000 Mexicans. The best next step we have towards reducing the violence in Mexico is ending marijuana prohibition.
AP | Posted 03.09.2010 | Denver
DENVER — A man charged with helping smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine from Mexico to the United States has pleaded not guilty in Denv...
Jesse Ventura | Posted 03.09.2010 | Books
The Obama administration's "drug war" budget has about twice as much money going into criminal justice than to treatment and prevention, despite that Obama says he views drug use as a health issue.
Tony Newman | Posted 02.19.2010 | Politics
I want to hold up a mirror to Jason Mattera and the GOP on the issue of drug use following his jab at President Obama's admission to having used cocaine in his youth.
Guardian | Rory Carroll | Posted 02.16.2010 | World
Decades after Richard Nixon tried to end the trafficking of cocaine from Colombia, success seems as elusive as ever. ...
Bill Piper | Posted 02.12.2010 | Politics
President Obama spoke for millions when he said drug use should be treated as a health issue instead of a criminal justice issue. He has failed, however, to change the drug war budget in a meaningful way.
Laura Carlsen | Posted 02.04.2010 | Politics
On January 31, an armed commando unit pulled up to a house in a working-class neighborhood in Ciudad Juarez on the Mexican side of the border with the...
Charles Shaw | Posted 02.05.2010 | Chicago
Cops and prisons, drugs and guns, McDonald's and Wal-Mart ... these were the replacement economies America had to offer in her postindustrial age if you couldn't get a college degree.
Sanjeev Bery | Posted 02.03.2010 | Business
Americans pay large sums of money to people who grow, process, ship, smuggle, and deliver drugs to the U.S, but they also pay to fight, and kill those we hired to provide the drugs to begin with.
Tony Newman | Posted 01.26.2010 | New York
Yesterday, Michael Mineo took the stand to describe his claims of a harrowing experience: being held down by three New York police officers and sodomized. His crime? Smoking marijuana.
Mail Online | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
A father-of-three who was found with a microscopic speck of cannabis stuck to the bottom of one of his shoes has been sentenced to four years in a Dub...
Posted 03.18.2010 | World
Al Jazeera's Prerna Suri reports on the devastating effects of drugs in one of India's most holy cities, Amritsar. The city, home to the Golden Templ...
Anthony Papa | Posted 03.18.2010 | New York
The brochure under attack is directed toward the city's residents who inject drugs, and it serves the critical purpose of reducing disease transmission, preventing overdoses and saving lives.
Norm Stamper | Posted 03.18.2010 | Politics
Cops can be forgiven for believing a next armed attack is inevitable. But that's foolish and fatalistic thinking: Fearful, perpetually on-edge cops are a danger to themselves, and to others.
Jacob M. Appel | Posted 03.18.2010 | Politics
A mass, collective pardon of nonviolent offenders would reunite hundreds of thousands of families, save billions of dollars in incarceration costs, and might foster a national spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Anthony Papa | Posted 03.18.2010 | Business
As reported by the New York Times, Chase Bank asked millions of Facebook users to "decide what matters" by voting for their favorite organizations, but they appeared to rig their own contest.
AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
MEXICO CITY — Assailants on Tuesday gunned down the mother, aunt and siblings of a marine killed in a raid that took out one of Mexico's most po...
Charles Shaw | Posted 03.18.2010 | Chicago
Cook County Jail is so awful that for many of its detainees a quick guilty plea and a trip to the penitentiary, even for twice as long, is preferable to staying in the County.
AP | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Gunmen killed a university student in the deadly Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, prosecutors said Wednesday. Chih...
Mike Gray | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
International drug prohibition, headed by the United States, has, in effect, created a global mechanism that is in the process of eating our civilization alive. Fortunately, we can reverse it with a pen stroke.
Adam Hanft | Posted 03.18.2010 | Living
The fact that 80% of the recent jobs lost were held by men; people who have volunteered for Bloomberg's third term bid; getting Facebook invitations from people who campaigned for Eugene McCarthy.
David Sirota | Posted 03.18.2010 | Politics
Why do we as a country encourage the consumption of drugs that are far more harmful than some of the drugs, like marijuana, we outright criminalize?
Erin Rosa | Posted 03.18.2010 | Denver
DEA agents in Denver have a sordid history when it comes to backing up their claims, and their most recent allegation that medical marijuana dispensaries are being supplied by 'cartels' is no different.
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 03.19.2010 | Living