56 Percent Of Americans Want Legal Marijuana
Fifty-six percent of Americans think marijuana should be legalized and regulated like alcohol and tobacco, according to a nationwide Rasmussen poll of...
Fifty-six percent of Americans think marijuana should be legalized and regulated like alcohol and tobacco, according to a nationwide Rasmussen poll of...
James Gierach | Posted 05.19.2012
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.
Lindsay McCall | Posted 04.30.2012
I will forever feel a kinship with other leap year babies, even the ones I haven't met. (I'm talking to you, one-time rap sensation Ja Rule.)
HuffingtonPost.com | Katherine Bindley | Posted 02.28.2012
For most people, Feb. 29 rolls around once every four years, a nifty quirk of the Gregorian calendar. But for parents who are expecting a baby this w...
Gretchen Burns Bergman | Posted 04.10.2012
We are working to change current drug policies from arrest and mass incarceration to therapeutic and restorative policies that will reduce the damage to our communities while improving public safety.
Stephen Downing | Posted 04.03.2012
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.
Russ Belville | Posted 02.28.2012
Today we continue our Year-End Retrospective with a look at the biggest news stories of scientific research into cannabis, public opinion polls on legalization, and statistical research on cannabis consumers.
HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 11.25.2011
CHICAGO -- As Jessica Shaver and I chat at a coffee shop in Chicago's north-side Andersonville neighborhood, a police car pulls into the parking lot a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 12.31.2011
WASHINGTON -- The White House has rejected several marijuana legalization petitions, one of which called on the federal government to stop interfering...
Stephen Downing | Posted 12.24.2011
The federal government has put up another $72 million in "war-on-drugs-grants" to redirect your police resources once again from true public safety duties in order to extend their failed war on drugs, this time with a savage assault on California's medical marijuana law.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.07.2011
[Note: Today's column is seriously disjointed. If you're already sick of hearing what a wonderful guy Steve Jobs was, then I strongly advise you to j...
The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 10.03.2011
A former Denver Police officer and former Lafayette judge will be collecting signatures to support the new full recreational use of marijuana legaliza...
Neill Franklin | Posted 10.01.2011
If the Obama administration really wants to go down in history as the first to take drug policy in a significantly new direction, they're going to have to change their thinking, their polices and their budgets, not just their rhetoric.
Diane Dimond | Posted 08.21.2011
The day of total drug legalization will come -- just as it did with alcohol. The question is: how many more multiple billions of dollars will we spend before we finally see it's the logical way to go?
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 08.15.2011
WASHINGTON -- Forty years after President Richard Nixon first declared a war on drugs, the officers who fought in it are calling for a truce. Forme...
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.
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...
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 ...
Neill Franklin | Posted 05.25.2011
Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011
From uniformed beat cops to homicide dicks to sheriffs more and more of the nation's police officers are coming to realize that our 40-year drug war is an unmitigated failure.
Posted 05.25.2011
After machine gun fire claimed Hilbert Potter's leg during Operation Desert Storm, he learned to walk again with the help of a prosthetic leg and a de...
Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011
The benefits of legalizing drugs are now undeniable, and everyone from Obama's most zealous supporters to former drug enforcement officials are demanding legalization be considered a valid option.
Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011
If one of these two drugs is implicated in dire health effects, high mortality rates, and physical violence -- and the other is not -- what are we to make of our nation's marijuana laws?
Deanna Lee | Posted 05.25.2011
While both candidates' websites have sections targeting Asian Americans, McCain's is a mere form to sign up for emails. Obama's is based on popular social networking sites -- with blogs, member directories, and links to embed the Obama '08 logo on your own Facebook profile.
The Huffington Post | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.22.2012