April 11, 2011
A strong majority of California voters believe the penalty for possession of a small amount of an illegal drug for personal use should be reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor.
April 07, 2011
Multitudes took to the streets in more than 40 Mexican cities to demand an end to the violence wrought by the US-imposed "war on drugs."
March 30, 2011
More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began.
March 29, 2011
President Barack Obama plans to take questions from YouTube viewers Thursday afternoon, and for the third time in as many years, the overwhelmingly most popular query involves the legalization of marijuana.
February 23, 2011
You might not think a 65-year-old retired cop would take to the Internet to ask the president of the United States to consider legalizing drugs, but that's just what I did recently.
February 21, 2011
The Washington legislature is poised to consider House Bill 1550, which would legalize and regulate cannabis, and apply taxes on sales.
February 16, 2011
If we truly want to get past race in this country, we must be aware that it will never happen until the futile War on Drugs so familiar to us now is a memory. The time to end the War on Drugs, therefore, is yesterday.