Category: Drug Law

It Confirms the Obvious… Using highly technical testing methods like Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer (GC/MS), drug labs can identify drugs regardless if synthetic or mass produced. Test results are then added to the prosecution’s discovery to help build their criminal case against the.

CARSON CITY, NV – Eighteen months into legalized marijuana sales in Nevada, lawmakers are ready to make changes to laws based off what has worked, and what still needs worked on. Just 37 days into 2019, there are twelve bill requests related.

As 2016 morphed into 2017 new laws came on the books. Some, such as those dealing with prescription medications could be beneficial. Others, like the moped tax, may not. Marijuana Despite voters approving the adult use of recreational pot, the law permitting.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued its Proposed Rules for implementing provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Act) on reporting and returning overpayments made under Medicare. The Act made a number of changes to Medicare.

Jeffrey Skilling, the former CEO of Enron Corp. is officially out of options for challenging his 2006 conviction on charges of conspiracy, securities fraud, insider trading and lying to auditors. The very public former head of the failed accounting firm, who is.

Back at the end of 2006 I posted an item about the need to focus on "winnable" areas of drug law and policy and to push actively for change in those areas. In response, both in the comments to the post and.

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.

Originally posted on Drug Law Blog by attorney Alex Coolman Part of this blog's proposal for making drugs boring -- that is, making them something we can trust to the judgment of individuals rather than the coercion of the police, courts and.