This system—where police can seize property with limited judicial oversight and retain it for their own use— has led to egregious and well-chronicled abuses … As has become evident in the legislative arena, asset forfeiture is a field that both those on the left and the right recognize is need of reform. In two recent…
Ladies and gentlemen, this could be the beginning of the end of medical cannabis prohibition in the United States. The bill has the advantage of bipartisan support across the aisle. With backers from both the Democratic and Republican parties, the CARERS Act has the highest likelihood to pass of any federal cannabis bills that have…
About $500 a second… and of course, this is just the dollars and sense of it — not to mention the costs to human life, liberty and happiness. Billions of American tax dollars that might have been used to fund other important services have been wasted on the drug war Original Article (Sun Times):Guess how…
*Distribution of Federal prisoners in the United States since 1950 In the face of this [overdose] crisis, Jeff Sessions has re-declared the war on drugs, a five-decade old boondoggle that civil-rights organizations, economists and even some law-enforcement groups believe to be discredited by years of failure. The war on drugs has already cost U.S.…
“America is more addicted to drug money than they are addicted to drugs.” -former DEA agent named Celerino Castillo “We have a [current] administration … promising to bring back the War on Drugs’ most draconian policies, including mandatory sentencing laws,” Lappé says. “Policies that most experts on all ends of the spectrum agree do little…
Policies based on punishment and stigma will only make our drug problems spiral. The path back to sanity can only come through love, compassion – and a regulated trade. For most of the history of the United States, drugs were legal. People could buy opiates and cocaine-based products from their local pharmacy. An opiate-laced…
Government policies are clear, and they encourage local police to allow drugs to flow on the streets. Here’s why: If the police seize drugs, they have to destroy them. If the police seize cash they get to keep it. This is a huge incentive for cash-strapped police departments to allow drugs to be “liquidated” –…
While it’s true that yes, the US is in the midst of a “historic drug epidemic,” marijuana is not the drug that kills 91 Americans every single day. It is also not responsible for the quadrupling in overdose deaths in the US since 1999. In fact, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration… no deaths…
*Operation Michoacán The right to health is also undermined significantly by punitive drug policies. Nowhere is this more evident than in Russia, where, as a result of tough drug laws and a lack of sufficient healthcare, one in 100 adults is HIV positive. This has been directly attributed to the prohibition of opiate substitute prescribing,…
“Initial results – to be published later this month in Royal Society for Public Health Journal – suggest almost one in five users (18%) opted to dispose of their drugs once aware of the true content, immediately reducing the amount of potentially harmful substances circulating on site.” Furthermore, The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH)…
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