War on Drugs
Chronicling changes to US drug policy, from marijuana legalization efforts to the fight against the opioid crisis.
Naloxone can be a “moral hazard,” a new paper concludes.
Libertarians and conservatives are pushing back against Sessions’s anti-marijuana guidance, and for legalization through legislation.
“We’re leading in the direction of instigating a new drug war.”
US doctors wanted to treat pain as a serious medical problem. But when pharmaceutical companies pushed opioid painkillers with a misleading marketing campaign, they started a drug crisis.
Tobacco, alcohol, and opioids kill hundreds of thousands annually. Marijuana, meanwhile, has caused zero overdose deaths.
Washington, DC, has a bigger population than Vermont or Wyoming. But it’s not a state, and Congress can nullify its laws.
America is number one — in incarceration.
The prejudices run very deep — and that’s the problem.
As crime dropped, US prosecutors locked up more people — and Americans kept reelecting them.
“I want to work as hard as I can to make marijuana completely legal in this country before the end of my life.”
It’s a complicated, but important, guide for drug policy. Here’s what you need to know.
The possibility of drug abuse, overdose, and diversion is the backdrop to every conversation I have with a patient about opioids.
Our screens give us carte blanche to be shittier to each other than we’d ever be in real life.
Normally, I’m not much of a baseball fan. But as I watched the game, suddenly I found it fascinating. The way the players swung at the ball! The speed of each ball posted — 95 miles an hour! So fast! Why hadn’t I watched this amazing game before?
Kevin Sabet used to work for President Obama. Now he’s trying to stop legal pot.
There’s a progressive myth that private prisons are to blame for mass incarceration. But they’re not.
A tale of difficult scientific policymaking.
It’s about weighing the good and bad of prohibition versus legalization.
Ohio voters had a chance to vote on marijuana legalization in 2015 — but even legalization advocates weren’t happy with the measure.
I thought that watching Netflix’s Narcos would be like grabbing a bag of popcorn and watching my country burn. I was wrong.
Meet Charles Clarke.
The war on drugs hasn’t worked. The Senate bill tacitly acknowledges that.
You can probably guess which one.
It was the fourth state to legalize pot possession.
This is problem of public health, not criminal justice.
It could kill as many as 45,000 Americans this year. Where’s the outrage?
What if all that stood between heroin addiction and sobriety was one dose of a highly potent psychedelic drug?
Here’s what’s really going on.
It shifts the focus from criminal justice to public health. That’s a big deal.
Ouch.
The war on drugs fundamentally changed the scope of the federal prison system.
A website that was little known outside of LGBTQ circles is triggering a huge debate about sex work and prostitution.
If Vice President Joe Biden became the next president, he could be tasked with fixing a problem he helped create: mass incarceration.
Here’s why.
A disturbing tale of mandatory minimum sentences.
The research suggests decriminalization would lead to better outcomes.
“We offer a free service to help you eliminate your drug competition.”
The real issue in this debate is much bigger than Dunham.
This is a problem.