Since voters approved Initiative 502, FBI crime statistics show lower rates of violent crime in Washington than before legalization. According to the FBI data, in 2011 there were 295.6 violent offenses reported per 100,000 Washington residents. In 2015, the most recent full year of data available, that rate had fallen to 284.4 violent offenses per…
*Agents destroying a[n] alcohol still in San Francisco during [alcohol] prohibition Most defenders of the drug war can name nowhere were it has succeeded, yet they insist it must be intensified nonetheless. It is true that if you construct a totalitarian police state, you can briefly reduce drug use – although the moment you relax…
“Using drugs can be a rational choice, a bad choice, or in cases of addiction, a very constrained choice. It is never a crime. Therefore, no criminal sanctions for drug possession and use.” -David Nutt of Drug Science But it can’t just be a free-for-all. Just because you’re not throwing drug users in prison doesn’t…
Critics of civil asset forfeiture should be heartened by this ruling. Not only did it vindicate the legal standing of innocent people fighting for the return of their own money, it shows that the lower courts are starting to heed Justice Thomas’ call to arms against asset forfeiture abuse …. The Supreme Court offered no…
When Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled… that consuming marijuana was constitutionally legal, it left the world shocked and somewhat confused … In a 4-1 vote … in Mexico City, the five-justice panel declared the personal recreational use of marijuana legal under the right of “free development of personality. In the same paragraph, however, the Court cautioned…
On April 22nd 2005, a British court sentenced Casey Hardison to imprisonment for making MDMA and LSD. A forensic chemist from the Forensic Science Service described Hardison’s DIY lab ‘as the most complex he had ever encountered’. Hardison however has consistently argued that he is the victim of one of the biggest injustices of the…
Countries like Canada, Uruguay and several states in the USA are going further than this by creating legal markets for cannabis. The government’s claim that liberalisation will inevitably increase drug use and harms is contradicted by its own report, which showed no link between the harshness of punishment and the level of drug use.. In…
Finally in 2010, at the age of 65 and facing 15 years, I presented myself at the U.S. Embassy and turned myself in…I’m very proud of my life. I believe that manufacturing MDMA and Heaven was the right thing to do. Even though I have not taken any psychedelics since 1991, I feel that the…
Simply put: Osborne’s business made Dodge look forward to an afterlife, and she found peace in this life. And, to bring it back to business, Osborne’s business is succeeding. He says his retreats are filling up fast. He makes more now than when he grew shrooms illegally. He pays taxes, and supports three kids.…
…news that Dutch police and officials from Europol also secretly took control of Hansa, another dark web marketplace, weeks before AlphaBay shut down. That means the authorities were secretly in charge of Hansa when former AlphaBay users came over there looking for a new sight. This operation over the past month has given authorities…
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