Stories by Ethan Nadelmann

In Thursday’s New York Times, the Drug Policy Alliance, the nation’s leading drug policy reform organization, is running a full-page ad to thank voters in Colorado and Washington and emphasize the growing support for drug policy reform.

The end of AIDS is not just possible -- but predictably achievable -- if we end the war on drugs.

Amid a dramatic turn of events in the drug policy debate, the challenge will be to sustain this momentum, even as the U.S. government works desperately to suppress it.

This year, federal authorities have done almost everything in their power to undermine state regulation of medical marijuana. It is time Obama implement his original policy.

The persistent failure of drug war policies and generational change are turning reformist ideas once considered taboo into mainstream thinking.

Drug prohibition is remarkably ineffective, costly and counter-productive -- it has cost people their lives, and put millions behind bars. Is the tide turning?

It's time now for DPA to launch a new organizational identity that fully expresses each of our roles as agents of change.

It's only a matter of time before marijuana is taxed, controlled, and regulated in the United States.

If the 500,000 nonviolent drug offenders in jail had white faces, would society allow it?

We have an opportunity to re-shape drug policy for a generation.