Drugs

How Many Clemency Requests Are Botched? U.S. Pardon Attorney Excluded Info That Could Have Set One Man Free

By Dafna Linzer / ProPublica

An investigation into one man's clemency request exposes the Pardon Attorney for failing to report crucial information that may have set an unjustly sentenced Black man free.

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Sick Judge on Medical Marijuana: It's a "Human Rights Issue"

By Brian Braiker / The Guardian

After DEA's Drug Raid Horrors Erupt in Honduras, Human Rights Groups Demand Answers for Dead Innocents

By Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

"I'll Smoke a Joint on the Capitol Steps": Pro-Legalization Congressional Candidate Says He'd Risk Arrest for the Pot Movement

By Stephen C. Webster / Raw Story

Cameron Douglas Case Brings Calls for Treatment, Not Prison

By Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

Deepak Chopra Joins Movement to End the War on Drugs

The Healing Power of Marijuana Has Barely Been Tapped

Why Are We Testing Newborns for Pot?

Drugs

Why Oregon's Attorney General Election May Be Referendum on Medical Marijuana With National Consequences

Steven Wishnia / AlterNet

How Big Pharma and the Psychiatric Establishment Drugged Up Our Kids

Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

"The Whole System Relies on These Arrests": The NYPD's Racist Marijuana Arrest Crusade And Its National Implications

Alexander Zaitchik / American Independent News Network

How Corrupt Prosecutors Get Away With Sending Innocent People to Jail

Clarence Walker / Drug War Chronicle

Tale of Two Cities: NYPD's Racist Arrests Create Class War in New York

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

One Mother Explains How Her Sons' Addiction Brought Her to Anti-Drug-War Activism

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

Mexican Poet Javier Sicilia Leads U.S. Peace Caravan: Will Americans Wake Up to Our "Absurd" Drug War's Blood Trail?

Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

How the War on Drugs Destroyed My Family

Joyce A. Rivera / AlterNet

Pot Politics: Will Oregon's Attorney General Election Send a Crucial Message to Dispensary-Busting Feds?

Jill Harris / AlterNet

Killer Mike, Venerable Rapper/Activist, Talks New Album, Drug War, and Maybe Running for Office

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

5 Ways Law Enforcement Has Bungled Drug War Raids

Scott Thill / AlterNet

Under the Influence "Per Se"? How Colorado's "Drugged-Driving" Bill Would Slam Pot-Smokers With Unfair DUIs

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

Victory: Connecticut Becomes 17th State to Legalize Medical Pot

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

Why Nancy Pelosi is Right to Slam Obama's War on Pot

Stephen C. Webster / Raw Story

Drug War Disaster: Student Busted for Pot Abandoned in Cell, Forced to Drink Own Urine to Survive

Staff / AFP

5 Special Interest Groups That Help Keep Marijuana Illegal

Lee Fang / Republic Report

Meet the Group That Gives Addicts Drug Money to Get Sterilized -- and the Right-Wingers That Fund Them

Jed Bickman / The Fix

Dutch Government's Absurd New "Weed Pass" Rule Prompts Big Storm of Resistance

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

Former Heroin Addict: Methadone Lets Me Live a "Normal Life," and Prohibiting It Would Be a Public Health Disaster

James Legge / The Guardian

Why The Ridiculous, Mandatory Drug Test Laws Flooding The Country Are Struggling To Pass

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

6 Kinds of Pills Big Pharma Tries to Get You Hooked on for Life

Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

5 Fascinating New Uses For Psychedelics

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

How America Lost Its Collective Mind in the Drug War

Cliff Schecter / AlterNet

Sending the Sick Into the Streets? How Drug Tests Will Lock Homeless New Yorkers With HIV/AIDS Out of Shelters

Mike Selick, Jaron Benjamin / AlterNet

Oakland 4/20: "Obama, You're Alienating Your Base"

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

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