Customs and Border Patrol announces a new fentanyl crackdown, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and others file the SEEK HELP to protect people administering naloxone, and more.
Poster for the John Sinclair Freedom Rally featuring John Lennon and Stevie Wonder, among others, in 1971.
Hawaii activists are pressing for action ahead of a Thursday deadline for a marijuana legalization bill, Oregon will make drug possession a misdemeanor as of September 1, and more.
Overlooking San Francisco from the Marin Highlands. The city votes tomorrow on screening welfare recipients for drugs. (Creative Commons)
Congressional negotiators have come up with a spending bill that includes marijuana riders, a medical marijuana expansion bill is filed in Kentucky, and more.
Some Pennsylvania drug courts are being forced to allow the use of opioid addiction medications. (Creative Commons)
A pair of Tennessee bills would allow voters to weigh in on marijuana policy questions, the European Union gives the go-ahead for a multi-national initiative campaign on medical marijuana and research, and more.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton doesn't want any pot leaves in the Lone Star State.
Jim Gierach is a former Cook County, Illinois, prosecutor, occasional failed political candidate, and longtime fighter in the trenches taking on the war on drugs. He makes no bones about what he thinks need to happen.
A Sri Lankan beach. There is trouble in paradise. (Creative Commons)
Somebody in Washington state thinks people who smoke pot should not be hired in drug treatment positions, Iran hangs nine more people for drug convictions, and more.