Articles tagged with "prohibition"

If the precinct thought its triumphant cannabis-bust announcement would inspire attaboys from the locals, it was sorely mistaken.

A lawyer calls out Obama for defying Congress and cracking down on legal cannabis, Massachusetts sees a surge in MMJ patients, and a Harvard psychobiologist professor goofs up.

I spent a couple days at the Students for Sensible Drug Policy annual conference in Washington, D.C. If you want to know the future of drug policy reform, there is no better place to go.

The first U.N. General Assembly special session to address global drug policy in nearly 20 years heard major differences on the approach to drug use on its second day on Wednesday.

Werner Sipp, president of the U.N.’s International Narcotics Control Board, pooh-poohed the idea of cannabis legalization and “so-called ‘new approaches’” to drug policy.

A major report issued this morning by The Lancet urges the U.N. to rethink its drug policy and adopt a number of major changes, including an end to cannabis prohibition.

Singapore’s Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) runs numerous anti-drug campaigns to deter their youth from using illicit substances. And boy, are they interesting.

In today’s daily news digest: D.A.R.E. wants you to know it (really) doesn’t like cannabis, Oregon eases banking rules, and Ohio organizers unveil initiative details.

A discovery on Reddit leads Leafly on a wild goose chase involving one of America’s best-known anti-drug programs.

As part of Leafly’s ongoing effort to include the voice of law enforcement in the cannabis conversation, we had a conversation with a former Chicago prosecutor.