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Economic necessity and shifting mores are changing the nation's approach to incarceration.

Is Plan Colombia subsidizing narco-traffickers to cultivate biofuels on stolen lands?

The national media have invented a drug-related crime wave that officials and local journalists say just isn't happening.

Drug prohibition and unregulated guns gave us the Mexican drug wars.

The change in leadership at the New York state level seems poised to make a dramatic change to the state's Rockefeller Drug Laws.

The escalating war near America's southern border is driving embattled Mexicans to seek safety in the United States. What if the tide of violence follows them?

A look at President Obama's nominee for 'drug czar' with the Bruce Mirken from the Marijuana Policy Project.

Dope smokers take heart at Obama's stance on medical marijuana.

New York activists who oppose the state's repressive drug laws are optimistic about the new political landscape but unsure of whether politicians will embrace the necessary radical reforms.

Drug-related violence tearing Mexican society apart. Is America next?

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Prison phone companies like Global Tel* Link get away with charging prisoners exorbitant rates just to keep in touch with their families. Tell the Federal Communications Commission to end this predatory practice. 

October 1, 2013

Increased militarization of police forces led to the 7-year-old’s death. It’s time we all recognize that.

June 19, 2013

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
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