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 San Francisco narc gets fired for having a sexual relationship with a snitch, a DHS officer heads for federal prison after getting stung, and more. In San Francisco, a veteran narcotics detective ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new report from Human Rights Watch and the Drug Policy Alliance lifts the lid on some sordid practices in America's intertwined wars on drugs and immigrants. Paul Pierrulus was born into a Haitian ...

Update: The Chamber did indeed rule in favor of jurisdiction. Duterte's trial is scheduled to begin on November 30, 2026. This is a consequential time in so many ways. One is that tomorrow morning ...

As the Trump administration continues its murderous attacks against Venezuelan boats it accuses of being involved in drug trafficking -- the death toll now stands at 14 dead in three separate attacks ...

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 ...

The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oaklandby Ali Winston & Darwin Bondgraham (2023, Atria Books, 467 pp., $30 HB) The killing of Tyre Daniels by Memphis police ...

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, ...