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School buses

The school-to-prison pipeline has emerged quickly, but the corrosive effect of criminalizing children will be felt for generations to come.

Marijuana

After election day victories in Colorado and Washington, marijuana legalization activists are gearing up for more.

Weldon Angelos

Cases like that of Weldon Angelos, who was given a fifty-five-year sentence for selling marijuana, cry out for mercy. But calls for clemency have fallen on deaf ears.

Drug search

The unwinnable war transforms a freedom-loving republic into a freedom-fearing national security state.

 

Along with marijuana decriminalization in other states, the success of Proposition 36 in California is a ray of hope for those trapped in the abyss of the War on Drugs.

Inmate

Along with marijuana decriminalization in other states, the success of Proposition 36 in California is a ray of hope for those trapped in the abyss of the War on Drugs.

Turnout for a popular ballot measure that would fully legalize marijuana could determine whether Obama or Romney wins this important swing state.

More than 100 activists are traveling from the Mexican border to Washington, DC, to push the US to reconsider failed drug policies.

Drug violence in Mexico

Cablegate revealed just how far the US goes to drive Mexico’s counternarcotics operations.

The “most dangerous show on television” highlights our shredded social contract.

Blogs

The story of Weldon Angelos speaks volumes about the unfairness of mandatory minimum sentencing.

January 10, 2013

Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki is on a mission to show his Sundance-award winning movie, The House I Live In, to prisoners across the country. On a Friday in December, he went to New Yor}ks biggest jail.

December 21, 2012

November's victories at the ballot box show the drug war is vulnerable. 

December 10, 2012

Rebecca Richman Cohen met Chris Williams in 2011, while making a documentary about Montana’s medical marijuana law. Today, he faces a mandatory minimum sentence of more than eighty years—and Cohen hopes to tell his story.

November 30, 2012

Recent referendums raise real questions for what the NFL should be saying about marijuana.

November 29, 2012

The trillion-dollar crusade isn’t making America drug-free—it’s making us the world's most incarcerated population. 

November 20, 2012

Frank and Paul are asking the federal government to respect new decriminalization laws in the states—while Latin American leaders get involved as well. 

November 14, 2012

Mel Sembler, a major fundraiser for Romney, led a drug "treatment” center that was forced to shut down because of allegations of child abuse. 

September 18, 2012

Outside the International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC, thousands of activists took to the White House to call for an end to the laws that drive the epidemic.

July 27, 2012

Rational marijuana policy isn’t about getting to smoke joints. It’s about civil rights.

July 27, 2012