A Possession Arrest Every 25 Seconds: The Cruel Folly of the War on Drugs...
This article was produced in collaboration with AlterNet and first appeared here.Nearly a half century after Richard Nixon inaugurated the modern war on drugs, to criticize it as a failure as so common...
View ArticleColorado County's Marijuana Tax Program Will Provide $420,000 in College...
This article was produced in collaboration with AlterNet and first appeared here.More than 200 graduating high school students in Colorado's Pueblo County will head off to college in a few weeks thanks...
View ArticleAction Alerts, #GivingTuesday, Issue 1000, Remembering Rep. Hinchey
I hope that those of you who mark Thanksgiving had a good holiday.read more
View ArticleChronicle AM: WV "Free College" Bill Requires Drug Testing, NM MJ Init Bill...
It's a longshot, but New Mexican could get a chance to vote on marijuana legalization this fall, an Iowa bill to lower pot penalties advances, so does a New Jersey hemp bill, and so does a West...
View ArticleChronicle AM: MA Legal Pot Rules Set, New Effort to Delete HEA Drug Question,...
Bay State regulators have finalized their rules for the legal pot industry, red states are in CBD fights, the Israeli decriminalization bill advances, a new move to get rid of the HEA's drug question...
View ArticleChronicle AM: MS MedMJ Petitioning On Track, Kamala Harris on Pardons for...
Texas decriminalization gets walked back a step, a Mississippi medical marijuana initiative already has lots and lots of signatures, Kamala Harris talks pardons for drug war prisoners, and...
View ArticleChronicle AM: CT Legalization Could Get Vote Soon, Chinese Fentanyl Will Keep...
A federal bill to protect immigrants working in the marijuana industry gets filed, the Oregon Senate approves a marijuana interstate commerce bill, the San Antonio DA is no longer prosecuting picayune...
View ArticleChronicle AM: CA Acts to Boost Struggling Cannabis Industry, WV Students Face...
California officials are cutting legal operators some slack in a bid to boost the marijuana industry, Virginia's attorney general calls for marijuana decriminalization, West Virginia is demanding...
View ArticleDrug Policy and Sustainable Development: Goals 4, 8 and 16 on Education, Work...
[image:1 align:right]Drug Policy and Sustainable Development: Goals 4, 8 and 16 on Education, Work and Rule of Lawside event, UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable DevelopmentChurch Center of...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Study Says No Long-Term Crime Rise Post-Legalization, CA...
A new study deflates one of the leading worries of marijuana legalization foes, the state of Texas abruptly quits taking medical marijuana dispensary applications, and more.[image:1...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Drug Policy Alliance Names New Leader, HI House Passes Drug...
The Drug Policy Alliance has a new executive director, Mexico's effort to legalize marijuana stalls in the Senate, the Oklahoma House moves to regulate kratom, and more. [image:1 align:left...
View ArticleFixing the Federal Criminal Justice System: The Establishment Weighs In...
In a just issued report on reforming the federal criminal justice system, a blue-ribbon task force of the nonpartisan Council on Criminal Justice calls for sweeping changes in the system from its...
View ArticleCongress Restores Financial Aid for Students with Drug Convictions, CA...
[image:1 align:right caption:true]Heroin and Prescription OpioidsCalifornia Bill to Create Law Enforcement Fentanyl Task Force Filed. State Senator Pat Bates (R-Laguna Niguel) has reintroduced a bill,...
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We Just Won an Old Fight
Dear reformer,One never knows when something good is going to happen. Last night, with the signing of the budget and stimulus bill, the drug conviction question on the federal college aid form was...
View ArticleBook Review: Three Takes on the Opioid Crisis [FEATURE]
RX Appalachia: Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky, by Lesly-Marie Buer (2020, Haymarket Books, 264 pp., $22.95 PB)Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies...
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