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No more marijuana testing for Division I athletes, the NCAA has announced. (Pixabay)

House Rules Committee Blocks Marijuana Amendments in Spending Bills, UN World Drug Report 2024 Released, More... (6/26/24)

A limited therapeutic psilocybin bill has died in the California Assembly, the NCAA ends marijuana testing, and more.

The CDC says drug overdose deaths are now declining, but there were still more than 107,000 fatal ODs last year. (Creative Commons)

Drug OD Deaths Decline for First Time in Five Years, DEA Cases Continue to Fall, More... (5/15/24)

Opium production is seeing a resurgence in conflict-riddled Myanmar, Nebraska medical marijuana petitioners reach a preliminary milestone, and more.

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema says drugs such as cocaine and Ecstasy should be regulated--not banned. (Creative Commons)

ND Legal Pot Initiative Filed, Amsterdam Mayor Calls for Regulated Cocaine, Ecstasy Sales, More... (4/16/24)

The UN says Colombian coca cultivation is at an all-time high, North Carolina lawmakers move to ban "gas station heroin," and more.

Delegates at the closing session of the 67th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs. (UNODC)

House GOP Policy Panel Says Reject Pot Banking Bill, MN Drug Residue Decrim Bill Advances, More... (3/26/24)

Hawaii's marijuana legalization bill advances but faces dimming prospects, South Dakota activists try a third time to get marijuana legalized, and more.

The lonesome road in Montana. Lawmakers will now get a chance to vote on how marijuana revenues should be spent. (Creative Commons)

MD Senate Approves Psychedelic Study Bill, Honduras Busts Another Coca Plantation, More... (3/19/24)

UN anti-drug bureaucrats are wrapping up their annual meeting in Vienna, Montana lawmakers will finally get a chance to override a months-old veto of a marijuana revenues allocation bill, and more.

A Connecticut bill would require hospitals to conduct drug tests on patients suffering non-fatal drug overdoses. (Creative Commons)

HI Senate Approves Legal Pot Bill, INCB Releases Annual Report, More... (3/6/24)

San Francisco voters approved a measure to require drug testing of cash welfare beneficiaries, Connecticut lawmakers heard about a bill to require hospitals to drug test non-fatal overdose patients, and more.

Rule of Law in Drug Policy (Philippines campaign)

StoptheDrugWar.org's Rule of Law program (previously referred to as our Philippines program) engages serious human rights abuses in the global drug war.

November brought some hope with the release of Philippine former senator Leila de Lima (protest photo from Feb. 2018)

The Top Ten International Drug Policy Stories of 2023 [FEATURE]

There were signs of progress on the global drug policy front in 2023, but drug war brutality endures.

The Middle Eastern amphetamine Captagon. (narcanon.us)

UN General Assembly Synthetic Drugs Resolution, Jordan Strikes Drug Smugglers in Syria, More... (12/19/23)

Presumed drug gangs kill a dozen people at a Christmas party in Mexico, Peruvian coca farmers are blamed for killing an indigenous leader, and more.

Speaking of futile pursuits, the Peruvians engage in some coca eradication. (PNP)

New Report Finds Global Drug War Failing By Its Own Standards [FEATURE]

The International Drug Policy Consortium has released a damning report on the status of the global war on drugs.

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