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The sounds emanating from the U.S. Attorneys Office in Pittsburgh this week were more nails being pounded into the coffin of the Cyril Wecht prosecution. No doubt realizing that the efforts of the last two years in the office were going down.

Everybody makes mistakes, but some people pay for mistakes far more severely than others. The tightrope walker who stumbles and falls into a net might wrench her back. The tightrope walker without a net risks dying. In the realm of medicine, pain.

In November of 2012, Edwin Clark was walking with his 8-month pregnant girlfriend across an apartment complex to buy a TV. Suddenly they were ambushed by two gunmen who opened fire.  Clark died in the parking lot of Siema Town homes near.

The fact that a mom had been arrested on marijuana charges, had previously had a boyfriend who allegedly sold crack cocaine and marijuana out of her house, and was now living at a shelter did not establish a "substantial risk of detriment".

“God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next,” says the old country song. For a couple in Las Vegas, “next” was jail. The man involved in the daylight attraction was killed.

Originally posted on Drug Law Blog by attorney Alex Coolman Jonthan Caulkins has a post up at Cato Unbound today responding to the essay on responsible psychoactive use I noted yesterday. It's a defense of the status quo around drug law, but.

Originally posted on Drug Law Blog by attorney Alex Coolman Pete on Drug WarRant mentioned something the other day that I, too, keep running up against as I follow reporting on drug issues: the tendency of reporters to turn every piece about.

A person was being killed in Las Vegas almost every 46 hours or every 2 days for the first few months of 2016. At this rate, the city should have more murders this year than in the past 5 years. By Feb.

Reader J points to a truly astounding specimen of Crappy Hackington journalism -- that is, local coverage of drug issues in a way that hews so closely to the template of hyperbolic, fact-free reportage that it can be scored using our pre-established.

For companies who have been importing products to be used in the US made by slave labor, their time has come. After 85 years of turning a blind eye to such an abhorrent practice, the US government has finally decided to close.