Since 2014, Congress each year has included language in the annual CJS (Commerce-Justice-Science) appropriations prohibiting the government from using any of the funds to prevent states from ...

StoptheDrugWar.org commends the arrest by Philippine authorities this morning of former President Rodrigo Duterte, under an International Criminal Court warrant served by Interpol. During his ...

More Than 200,000 Arrested for Marijuana Last Year, FBI Reports. The latest FBI data shows that at least 200,000 people were arrested on marijuana charges in 2023, with, as usual, simple possession ...

Like very many today, we are thrilled by the news of today's prisoner exchange, but disappointed that medical marijuana patient Marc Fogel, an American schoolteacher imprisoned by the Russian ...

Chronicle Magazine Review: The Baffler, No. 74, Altered States (June 2024,136 pp., $14 PB) Writing about drugs and drug policy doesn't have to come from academic presses or book-length journalistic ...

The DEA has proposed reclassifying marijuana by moving it from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), the Associated Press reported Tuesday. The plan is for the agency to ...

A quiet week on the medical marijuana front, but there was action in a couple of state capitals. Delaware Lawmakers Send Medical Marijuana Expansion Bill to Governor. After a final floor vote in the ...

Residents of the nation's third most populous state will have the chance to legalize marijuana in November after the state Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a last shot at blocking it by Republican ...

A pair of Tennessee bills would allow voters to weigh in on marijuana policy questions, the European Union gives the go-ahead for a multi-national initiative campaign on medical marijuana and research ...

A sticky-fingered Pennsylvania drug task force commander heads to prison, a small-town Alabama cop gets caught planting dope, and more. Let's get to it: In Centre, Alabama, a Centre police officer was ...

The end is in sight. After surviving a perilous passage through more than two dozen House and Senate committees, companion marijuana legalization bills, House File100 and Senate File 73 are nearing ...

As the lame duck congressional session ticks down toward its final days, not only have prospects for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's marijuana legalization bill faded into misty nothingness, ...