People v. Rubin on Religious Freedom to Sell Marijuana

A new "marijuana church" has been created in the wake of the Supreme Court's February ruling in Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal (126 S.Ct. 1211, the pdf is here). In O Centro, the Court unanimously held that the.

Two types of drugs have been in the news in the last couple of days because of concerns about the side effects they can produce in small populations of users.  In both cases, the side effect is fairly rare, but in both.

Professor Doris Marie Provine of Arizona State University's School of Justice & Social Inquiry is the author of a really interesting and challenging new book called Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs. I keep coming back to this book.

The United States relies more heavily on imprisonment than any country in the world, with the War on Drugs the major driving force behind high incarceration rates.  While common perception paints young men as the greatest victims of the drug war, conspiracy.

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".

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.

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.

I keep posting articles about the recreational and abusive use of pharmaceutical drugs because I believe that it's an issue that is neither well explored in the media nor adequately acknowledged in the way our legal system around drugs is structured. At.

Originally posted on Drug Law Blog by attorney Alex Coolman I just got back from a vacation with my mom, where we talked about this blog and my occasional tendency to use rhetoric that is perhaps more provocative than persuasive.  My mom.

A major preoccupation of mine in working on this blog has to do with the marketing of drug policy reform as a concept. One thing I keep wringing my hands over is the term "harm reduction" as a description of a health-oriented approach.