The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), a venerable DC-based research and advocacy group defending human rights in the ...

Democratic Sens. Cory Booker (NJ), Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (NY), Ron Wyden (OR), and more than a dozen Democratic cosponsors have reintroduced legislation to end federal marijuana prohibition.

A federal district court judge in Toledo ruled Monday that state officials are barred from enforcing the state's ban on hemp-derived intoxicating cannabinoids in beverages, but only the 10 companies ...

On April 3, the Taliban announced a ban on drug cultivation in Afghanistan, for years the world's dominant opium producer, accounting for more than 80 percent of the global supply of the substance, ...

The Chronicle may have had a respite, but law enforcement corruption related to drug prohibition took no break. In Charleston, South Carolina, a former Charleston County Sheriff's detention deputy was ...

In November 2020, voters in Oregon made history by becoming the first in the country to break with a century of drug war by approving the decriminalization of drug possession. Measure 110 not only put ...

The state Senate on Monday approved Senate Bill 235 also known as "Tyler's Law" after an 18-year-old who died of a fentanyl overdose, which would impose a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for some ...

What should have been a citation for drug paraphernalia gets turned into an outrageous attempt to lock a hapless drug user up for decades. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Minnesota has ...

As the month of June came to an end, so did the term in office of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, notorious for presiding over a bloody and still-continuing "war on drugs" that has left more ...

A spate of fatal pot shop robberies in Washington is leading to calls to pass the SAFE Act, the Mexican military sends reinforcements to Nuevo Laredo amidst continuing clashes, and more. Federal ...

A study released Monday finds that marijuana is now the nation's biggest cash crop, with the value of the annual harvest exceeding that of corn, soybeans or hay -- the country's top three legal cash ...

The National Press Club in Washington, DC took on the aspect of a chemistry lab for a short while Tuesday afternoon as scientists and researchers sponsored by the Marijuana Policy Project gave a ...