The Punitive Prohibitionist Approach to Drug Use During Pregnancy is Killing Women [FEATURE]
There seems to be a growing consensus that our approach to drug use during pregnancy is worse than wrongheaded.
Prosecution
San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins is moving to crack down on open air drug use and selling in the Tenderloin. (Creative Commons)
San Francisco DA's Misdemeanor Drug Crackdown, Philippine Rejects ICC Investigation into Drug War Killings, More... (9/9/22)
Seattle makes a move on marijuana equity, Bolivian coca growers get rowdy, and more.
San Francisco's Tenderloin is a drug hot spot. (Creative Commons)
PA Pot Pardon Program Unveiled, New York City Rally for Safe Injection Sites Statewide, More... (9/2/22)
New York City's child welfare agency is still holding marijuana use against parents--especially black ones--San Francisco's new DA is approaching misdemeanor drug prosecutions much like the old one she accused of being "soft on crime," and more.
Pro- and anti-government coca growers in Bolivia clashed for the third straight week. (dea.gov)
New Gallup Pot Poll, Bolivia Coca Conflict Continues, More... (8/17/22)
South Korean prosecutors sign on for more, better drug war, a group of French senators makes an urgent call for marijuana legalization, and more.
Kentucky did not do it, but maybe the federal government can obtain justice for Breonna Taylor.
Feds Charge Four Louisville Cops in Fatal Breonna Taylor Drug Raid, Thai Cannabis Tourism, More... (8/4/22)
Arkansas election officials knock a marijuana legalization initiative off the ballot -- at least for now -- San Francisco's new DA cracks down on drug dealers, and more.
This is what got Brittney Griner a nine year sentence.
Russian Court Sentences American Basketball Star Brittney Griner to Nine Years in Prison
Her sentence, if not the circumstances in which she came to face it, is unfortunately par for the course in the regressive Russian criminal justice system.
San Francisco's Tenderloin (Creative Commons)
MA Drug Decrim Bills Move to Study Phase, New San Francisco DA Pledges Drug Crackdown, More... (7/13/22)
DC's congressional delegate files an amendment to allow marijuana use in public housing in places where weed is legal, Connecticut hands out its first social equity marijuana growing licenses, and more.
There's money to be made growing weed, and in New York, equity applicants are getting the first crack at it. (CC)
NJ AG Says Cops Can Smoke Pot (But Not on Duty), ME Good Samaritan Improvement Bill Advances, More... (4/18/22)
New York issues its first marijuana grower licences, a Florida drug treatment provider is convicted of a massive drug testing fraud, and more. Marijuana Policy New Jersey
Marijuana industry execs are swarming Capitol Hill in a last-ditch bid to win passage of the SAFE Banking Act. (CC)
Executions of Drug Offenders Surged Last Year, Pot Industry Push for SAFE Banking Act, More... (3/21/22)
A suburban Atlanta prosecutor's big to clamp down on Delta-8 THC products runs into a judicial roadblock, the University of Michigan SSDP chapter is spearheading a municipal drug decriminalizaiton resolution
Austin voters are nearly set to vote on a municipal marijuana decriminalization initiative in May. (Creative Commons)
Global Coalition to Internationally Reschedule Psilocybin, Mississippi Medical Marijuana Bill, More... (1/12/22)
A Florida bill seeks to make it easier to prosecute drug overdoses as murders, an Austin initiative to decriminalize marijuana possession has enough signatures to qualify for the May ballot, and more.