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 ...

The program for the Harm Reduction International Conference 2025 (HR25) is out!

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 ...

The country's first experiment with state-level decriminalization of drug possession is over, but what will change -- other than more drug arrests? The nation's first experiment with state-level ...

The Olympia, WA, city council has voted to decriminalize natural psychedelics, the former head of the British Virgin Islands is headed to a US prison for drug trafficking, and more. Dallas City ...

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 ...

A Senate committee advances a spending bill with medical marijuana protections included, New Zealand's new conservative government files a roadside drug testing bill, and more. Key Republican ...

Activists in Dallas hand in signatures for a municipal decriminalization initiative, Arizona's governor signs a bill that would allow for therapeutic MDMA with federal approval, and more. Florida’s ...

A CBP agent in San Diego got greedy, so did some coke-snatching cops in Columbus, and more. Let's get to it: In Boston, a former state prison guard was sentenced Monday to probation for his role in a ...

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 ...

South Korea threatens to arrest its citizens if they smoke pot in countries where it is legal, Ireland wields harm reduction services as summer festival season arrives, and more. Delaware Bill to ...