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The legalization of hemp in the 2018 farm bill had “an unintended consequence that has allowed for intoxicating hemp-derived synthetic products to be made and sold,” McConnell said during Senate ...

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 ...

You can urine test them. You can take away their financial aid for college. But you can't stop the kids from getting high. Some people will try anything, and I don't think arresting them is going to ...

Part I of a series on the ATF's Operation Gideon, targeting inner city "bad guys" with drug house robbery stings Early in May, a panel of judges from California's 9 th US Circuit Court of Appeals ...

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 ...

South Dakota's first state-licensed medical marijuana dispensary opens, the FDA is moving toward approval of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD, and more. South Dakota's First State-Licensed Medical ...

GENEVA – Airstrikes by the United States of America on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific -- allegedly linked to drug trafficking -- violate international human rights law, UN High Commissioner ...

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 quiet week on the medical marijuana front, but there was action in a couple of state capitals. Delaware Lawmakers Send Medical Marijuana Expansion Bill to Governor. After a final floor vote in the ...

Since the beginning of September, the Trump administration has authorized at least 10 lethal attacks on suspected drug-carrying boats, killing at least 43 people. It claims the strikes are legal ...

Read Phil's 2023 top ten domestic drug policy stories here. UN Human Rights Office Calls for Sweeping Drug Policy Reform, Considering Decriminalization and Regulation A UN human rights report released ...