Chronicle Book Review: The Devil's Drug: The Global Emergence of Crystal Meth by Teun Voeten (2025, Rowman and Littlefield, ...

A Massaachusetts sheriff is arrested for extorting a legal marijuana business, a pair of Customs and Border Patrol agents cop ...

For the past two years, Drug War Chronicle has been tracking all the US deaths directly attributable to domestic drug law enforcement, including the border. You can view the 2011 deaths here and the ...

Read Phil's 2023 top ten domestic drug policy stories here. UN Human Rights Office Calls for Sweeping Drug Policy Reform, Considering Decriminalization and Regulation A UN human rights report released ...

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and his colleagues Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) rolled out an initial draft of their legislation to end ...

Biden Promotes Marijuana Reform in State of the Union Address. In a historic first, a sitting president used his State of the Union address to stress marijuana reform as President Biden reiterated his ...

The state Senate on Monday approved Senate Bill 235 also known as "Tyler's Law" after an 18-year-old who died of a fentanyl overdose, which would impose a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for some ...

News release from our colleagues at the International Drug Policy Consortium: Today, at the CND 64 th Session Reconvened, the Chair of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention was meant to present a ...

As the lame duck congressional session ticks down toward its final days, not only have prospects for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's marijuana legalization bill faded into misty nothingness, ...

StoptheDrugWar.org commends the arrest by Philippine authorities this morning of former President Rodrigo Duterte, under an International Criminal Court warrant served by Interpol. During his ...

Part I of a series on the ATF's Operation Gideon, targeting inner city "bad guys" with drug house robbery stings Early in May, a panel of judges from California's 9 th US Circuit Court of Appeals ...

South Dakota's first state-licensed medical marijuana dispensary opens, the FDA is moving toward approval of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD, and more. South Dakota's First State-Licensed Medical ...