Marijuana: Study Finds Minimal Changes in Driving Performance After Smoking
The drug czar is warning about dangerous potheads on the nation's highways, but some new clinical findings suggest there's less here than meets the eye.
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Prohibition: Drug War is a Failure, Associated Press Reports
The Associated Press has just declared the war on drugs a failure. When will the politicians admit the same?
Feature: Obama's First National Drug Strategy -- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Over the weekend, Newsweek published a leaked draft of the 2010 National Drug Control Strategy. No one is sure why it was leaked, or by whom. A pair of leading observers of federal drug policy dissect it for us.
Prohibition: More Drug Law Enforcement Means More Violence, Meta-Study Finds
If you want to reduce "drug-related" violence, sending in more cops and cracking down harder is exactly the wrong thing to do, a review of 20 years worth of studies has concluded.
Feature: Drug Czar Gets Grilled on "New Directions in Drug Policy" By Skeptical Solons, Activists, and Academics
The drug czar was in the hot seat at a Wednesday congressional hearing, and activists and academics got a chance to weigh in on the flaws of US drug policy as well.
Legalization: Drug Czar Avoids Answering Question on Fed Response to California Initiative
The drug czar doesn't want to talk about what the federal response to marijuana legalization in California might be. Let's hope he has to talk about it come November 3.
Legalization: So Say They Now -- US and Mexican Officials Say No to Debating It
It was just a meeting about reducing drug demand, but both the Mexican and the US governments felt compelled to speak out against drug legalization. First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you...
Feature: Obama Seeks Increase in Drug War Spending in a Drug Budget on Autopilot
President Obama has vowed to slash discretionary federal spending, but it isn't going be done on the back of the drug war. Federal drug control spending is up 3.5% in his Fiscal Year 2011 budget. Mostly it's the same old, same old drug war, but there are some interesting surprises.
Feature: South Dakota Medical Marijuana Campaigners Set to Hand in Signatures for November Initiative
Will the second time be the charm in South Dakota? Four years ago, a medical marijuana initiative there lost by four points. Now, advocates are ready to try again, and they think they can go over the top this time.
Congress: Budget Deal Includes Series of Drug Reform Victories
Congressional budget negotiators have approved a conference committee bill that ends the ban on federal funding of needle exchange programs, ends the ban on the District of Columbia funding of needle exchange programs, and ends the ban on the District enacting a medical marijuana law approved by voters a decade ago. Oh, and it also slashes funding for the drug czar's ineffective youth anti-drug media campaign.