From its earliest origins, the War on Drugs was designed to target racial minorities through arrest and incarceration. The War on Drugs was officially launched
Drug arrests and convictions linked to the War on Drugs carry a different kind of weight, as many of them involve non-violent “criminal” acts by
We cannot broach the topic of the Drug War without discussing the growing cannabis industry and the activism it took to start moving the legacy
Social justice issues and the War on Drugs are linked so closely that it will take a complete deconstruction and reconstruction of policy, the criminal
Even with legalization in many of the United States, marijuana arrests are still happening every day.
The stigma-busting stoner babes over at Ladies of Paradise are embarking on their most political and game changing event ever in June. On June 23,
By Phillip Smith At least seven people were killed by police doing drug law enforcement last month. Four were armed and two of them engaged
By Phillip Smith With the sentence commutations announced last week, President Barack Obama has now cut more than 300 harsh drug war prison sentences, more
On the eve of the 2016 United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the World Drug Problem, world leaders and activists have signed a
More than 225 civil rights, health, faith-based and other organizations sent a letter to President Obama Thursday calling on him to use an upcoming United Nations
The local chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (Greater St. Louis NORML) announces a Drug War Victims Vigil to take
By Phillip Smith An as yet unnamed man killed by police in Rawlins, Wyoming, on December 30, after they were called to a convenience store
By Phillip Smith President Obama today commuted the federal prison sentences of 95 men and women, all but two of them drug offenders serving draconian sentences.
By Phillip Smith The Black Lives Matter movement sprung out of the unjust killings of young black men (Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown), either at
Michael Botticelli is the Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), commonly referred to as the ‘Drug Czar.’ The title for
If you are in the area: When: Saturday, December 5at 9:00am – 12:30pm in EST Where: Gloria Dei Lutheran Church 15 Hayes St, Providence, Rhode
By Aaron Malin The Show-Me Cannabis Foundation works tirelessly to investigate and publicize the practices and impacts of cannabis prohibition in Missouri. We look closely
The United Nations 2015 World Drug Report, released Friday, details the failure of and harms caused by the war on drugs, but doesn’t grapple with
Activists will march from the U.S. State Department to the White House on Friday morning, demanding that the Obama administration do more to end the
On Friday, a rally will be held at 1 pm in New York City in front of the United Nations Headquarters as part of the
Last Saturday the New England Conference of United Methodist Churches, a group representing 600 congregations in six Northeastern states, voted in favor of Resolution 15-203,
By Phillip Smith The US government wants to throw Marsha Austin out of the country. The 67-year-old grandmother came from Jamaica to New York as
Legislators voted by a simple voice vote last night to end the DEA’s controversial bulk data collection programs, as part of the U.S. House of
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