Acapulco’s Taxi Drivers Being Murdered in Drug Prohibition War
In the last few weeks, more than a dozen taxi drivers and passengers have been murdered in the resort city of Acapulco. A 2008 survey reported that 120 of the 200 taxi drivers in the city of Chetumal,...
View ArticleJohn Stossel: End the Drug War, Save Black America (Opinion)
John Stossel discusses issues related to the devastating impact the war on drugs has on the black community.
View Article230,000 Displaced by Mexico Drug Prohibition War, Half May Have Come to the...
A new study by the Swiss-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Center that at least 230,000 people have been displaced in Mexico because of drug prohibition violence and that about half of them may...
View ArticleMexico's Orphans Are Casualties of Drug Prohibition War
"At least 12,000 children have lost one or both of their parents," said Gustavo de la Rosa, an official from Mexico's human rights commission. Those motherless and fatherless children, said de la Rosa,...
View ArticleMissouri Welfare Drug Test Bill Heads for Governor's Desk
A Missouri bill that mandates the drug testing of welfare recipients and applicants if case workers have "reasonable suspicion" they are using illegal drugs has passed out of the legislature and is now...
View ArticleGuatemala Attributes Drug Prohibition Massacre to Zetas, Declares State of...
The massacre due to drug prohibition in Guatemala that left 27 people dead at a cattle ranch – believed to be the work of Mexico's notorious drug trafficking organization, the Zetas – has forced a...
View ArticleRallies, Vigils Mark 40 Years of Failed Drug War [FEATURE]
It was 40 years ago Friday that President Richard Nixon (R) declared illegal drugs "public enemy No. 1" and ushered in the modern war on drugs. Four decades, millions of drug arrests, and a trillion...
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Michigan Father Killed in Marijuana Child Removal Incident
A prosecutor in northern Michigan has cleared the police officer who shot and killed a Grayling man as police and Child Protective Services (CPS) employees attempted to seize his three-year-old. The...
View ArticleWest Australia Enacts Mandatory Minimums for Marijuana
Changes to West Australia's Misuse of Drugs Act that came into effect last weekend are shifting the state from among Australia's most marijuana-friendly to one with the most draconian punishments....
View ArticleMedical Marijuana Update
Monday's federal raid on Oaksterdam University in Oakland has ignited a firestorm of criticism of heavy-handed federal efforts to clamp down on medical marijuana distribution. Meanwhile, battles...
View ArticleBills to Drug Test the Poor Face Tough Going [FEATURE]
With states facing severe budget pressures, bills to require drug testing to apply for or receive public benefits -- welfare, unemployment benefits, even Medicaid -- have been all the rage at...
View ArticleMarking Mother's Day With Calls for Reform [FEATURE]
On this Mother's Day, more than 100,000 women are behind bars in American prisons, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and many of them are doing time for drug offenses. That's too many,...
View ArticleUS/Mexico Drug War "Caravan of Peace" Gearing Up [FEATURE]
Aghast and appalled at the bloody results of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's war on drugs, which has resulted in at least 50,000 deaths since he deployed the military against the so-called drug...
View ArticleThe GOP Platform on Crime and Drugs
With Republican delegates now gone home after their national convention in Tampa, this is as good a time as any to examine their official position on crime and drugs. The 2012 GOP Platform lays it out,...
View ArticleIt Looks Like 2016 for a Marijuana Legalization Bid in California [FEATURE]
If the first day of the California NORML state conference is any indication, most of the major players in Golden State marijuana law reform are lining up behind the idea of waiting until 2016 to try...
View ArticleIdaho Seizes Medical Marijuana Activists' Kids [FEATURE]
Idaho is officially not a marijuana-friendly state. Although it is bordered on most sides by medical marijuana states (Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and Montana), it so far refuses to accept the...
View ArticleMedical Marijuana Update
A California dispensary regulation bill dies, the dark ages return to San Diego, Massachusetts towns enact moratoria, New Jersey gives a loan to a dispensary, and more. Let's get to it:[image:1...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- December 2, 2013
The Denver city council votes today on where you can smoke pot, a Tennessee bill equates meth-making with child abuse, there's dissent on drug policy at the UN, India fights a drug menace, and more....
View ArticleChronicle AM -- January 21, 2014
The war on weed may be beginning to wheeze toward its end, a researcher reports, and legislators continue to introduce bills to help it on its way. Meanwhile, harm reduction down South gets some...
View Article"The New Jim Crow" Author Michelle Alexander Talks Race and Drug War [FEATURE]
On Thursday, Michelle Alexander, author of the best-selling and galvanizing The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness sat down with poet/activist Asha Bandele of the Drug Policy...
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