Drug-Related Initiatives on State Ballots This Year [FEATURE]
The initiative and referendum process has long been a tool for advancing progressive drug policy reforms. This year is different.
Mandatory Minimums
Alaska could become the third state to decriminalize and allow therapeutic use of natural psychedelics, after Colorado and Oregon. (Greenoid/Flickr)
Alaska Natural Psychedelics Init Seeks Signatures, Call for WHO to Stand Up for Harm Reduction, More... (9/29/25)
The US Virgin Islands ends vehicle searches based on the smell of weed, the drug czar's office is reviewing Drug Free Community grants to ensure they don't promote "the radical left's agenda," and more.
Richard Lee during the 2010 Prop 19 campaign. (Oaksterdam University)
Regressive Fentanyl Bill Becomes Law, Oaksterdam's Richard Lee Dies, More... (8/4/24)
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Medical marijuana dispensaries should be coming soon to the Cornhusker State after a November victory at the polls. (Creative Commons)
NE Governor Signs MedMJ Inits into Law, NY Activists Begin Push for Sentencing Reforms, More... (12/16/24)
A South Carolina legislative champion of medical marijuana is back to try with another bill this coming session, and more.
Chronicle Book Review: The Suburban Crisis
Trying to deal with car culture kids in the post-World War II Los Angeles suburbs laid the groundwork for the war on drugs.
A Dutch marijuana coffeeshop. Under a pilot program beginning in June, some shops will start switching to a legal supply. (Creative Commons)
Supreme Court Limits First Step Act Safety Valve, KY MedMJ Bill Would Bar Patients with Drug Felonies, More... (3/18/24)
Dutch marijuana coffeeshops in a legal supply pilot program will have until September to go all legal supply, Colombia suspends a truce with a leftist rebel faction, and more.
Chronicle Book Review: Quick Fixes
A witty polemic on how we must solve capitalism if we want to solve our drug and drug war problems.
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez being extradited to face charges in the US. (Policia Honduras)
NH House Passes MedMJ Expansion Bills, Honduras Ex-President Guilty of Cocaine Trafficking, More... (3/11/24)
South Dakota's GOP governor signs a bill requiring that primary caregivers be informed of patients' medical marijuana certifications, Virginia's GOP governor vetoes a bill to protect marijuana-using parents, and more.
CA Governor Vetoes Naloxone Insurance Bill, Idaho Governor Signs Fentanyl Mandatory Minimums, Bill... (2/26/24)
The New Hampshire House (once again) approves a marijuana legalization bill, a psilocybin decriminalization bill gets filed in Connecticut, and more.
Destroying a coca field and shack in Honduras. (Honduran Public Ministry)
New York Approves Draft Home Grow Rules, Idaho Resorts to Fentanyl Mandatory Minimums, More... (2/20/24)
Bills addressing therapeutic psilocybin advance in Alaska and Hawaii, Honduran forces destroy more coca plots, and more.