In the latest move in a quixotic crusade against cannabis in any form, the DEA has published a ban on the consumption of food products containing hemp.
No longer targeting only producers of illegal drugs, some politicians have moved on to implicitly blaming domestic drug consumers for the 9/11 attacks.
Even before the dust had settled around the site of the World Trade Center, drug war hawks were trying to link the drug war to terrorism to further their own political goals.
The United States government may be shunning the UN conference on racism but the U.S. drug reform movement will be present, condemning racism in the drug war.
Colombian legislators recently introduced bills calling for an end to fumigation, the normalization of small drug crops and the outright legalization of the Colombian drug trade under a state monopoly.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled it is unconstitutional for judges to add more years to drug traffickers' sentences based on post-conviction hearings. This may mean that mandatory minimum sentencing will be repealed.
Despite rising opposition to Plan Colombia, U.S. holds a hard line, pressuring President Pastrana to continue aerial spraying of coca fields -- or else.
While talk show hosts make jokes and politicians make excuses, tens of thousands -- perhaps hundreds of thousandss -- of American men, women and teens are raped in prison each year.
Philip Smith speaks with Tom Cahil, founder of Stop Prisoner Rape, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to combating the rape of prisoners and providing assistance to the survivors of jailhouse rape.
New pain treatment guidelines are at odds with a government
campaign against prescription drug abuse, leaving patients --
and doctors -- in the crossfire.
A hugely disproportionate number of black men have been stopped and searched for drugs along route I-40 in Arizona. And when a racial profiling case was filed against the cops, crucial evidence started disappearing.
The effort to strike the Higher Education Act's drug war provision -- which denies financial aid to students convicted of a drug offense -- is gaining ground in Congress.
NBA veteran Charles Oakley re-ignited the basketball league's smoldering controversy over drug use among players last week when he told the New York Post that the league's drug testing policy was "a joke" and that more than half of league players are regular marijuana smokers.
Say "student activism" and most people think of the anti-globalization movement. But a new law that bars some students with drug convictions from obtaining federal financial aid, has revived a long dormant student reform movement aimed at changing US drug policy.
Ballot initiatives around the country have enacted profound changes in some states' drug policies, and -- by historical accident -- drug war opponents became key swing voters in the presidential race.
President Clinton formally waived the human rights conditions attached to the $1.3 billion military aid package destined to help the Colombian military wage war against drug traffickers and peasant-based leftist guerrillas. The move was an implicit admission that the Colombian military's hands are too dirty too pass muster.
