Drug War Chronicle

Oklahoma has long been notorious for its harsh sentencing policies. Now, a legislator is taking aim at one of the harshest: life without parole for nonviolent drug offenses.

The University of Texas-El Paso Border Security Conference saw a shift announced in Plan Merida priorities and a lot of happy talk about defeating the cartels, but little discussion of ending the drug war.

We are pleased to announce a major new section of the StoptheDrugWar.org web site -- and we are seeking your support to continue to make it possible.

The family of Jose Guerena, the former Marine gunned down in his own home by an invading Arizona SWAT team, is laying the legal groundwork for a massive lawsuit.

Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.

This week, it's drug task forces gone bad! And a dope-snorting and -peddling sheriff, too.

Two of the leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination had comments related to drug policy this week, and it wasn't pretty.

An Illinois school board demands that teachers submit to mandatory random drug testing even as it concedes there is no need for it. As a result, instead of teachers welcoming students to school this week, they're hitting the picket line.

A municipal initiative to make marijuana possession the lowest law enforcement priority has come up just short in Portland, Maine.

A proposed Alabama law would require Medicaid beneficiaries to take random suspicionless drug tests -- and pay for them -- and would throw them off the rolls for at least a year if they test positive.