Colombia: Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Slams U.S. Mass Incarceration At Conference...
Holder: “We Will Never Prosecute or Incarcerate Our Way to Becoming a Safer Nation”; 1 in 100 Americans Behind Bars Inadvisable and Unsustainable, Financially and MorallyDPA's Ethan Nadelmann: Historic...
View ArticleUruguay: South American Nation Next Week Will Become First In World To...
Uruguayan Senate to Vote Next Week on President Mujica’s Bill to Tax and Regulate MarijuanaThe Uruguayan Senate next week will vote on a bill that would make their country the first in the world to...
View ArticleUruguay: South American Nation On Tuesday Will Become First In Modern World...
Uruguayan Senate to Vote on President Mujica’s Bill to Tax and Regulate MarijuanaThe Uruguayan Senate on Tuesday will vote on a bill that would make their country the first in the world -- since the...
View ArticleNew York: Marijuana Legalization Bill Introduced In State Senate
Public Opinion, Wasted Tax Dollars and Racially Discriminatory Arrests Push Legislators to Fix Broken Marijuana PoliciesColorado, Washington, and Now Uruguay Offer Sensible Models and Precedent for...
View ArticleColorado: Recreational Marijuana Stores Stocking Up For January Sales Debut
By Steve Elliott Hemp NewsThe first state-licensed marijuana retailers in modern times will open on January 1 in Colorado, serving the state's cannabis users with a newly legal system instituted by...
View ArticleNew Mexico: Marijuana Legalization Resolution Introduced In State Senate
Public Opinion and Wasted Tax Dollars Push Legislator to Fix Broken Marijuana PoliciesColorado, Washington, and Now Uruguay Offer Sensible Models and Precedent for ReformNew Mexico State Senator Ortiz...
View ArticleGlobal: World Economic Forum To Feature Panel On Drug Policy Reform
Strange Bedfellows: Former UN Head Kofi Annan, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia, and Ken Roth of Human Rights Watch to Discuss the War on DrugsThe World Economic Forum in...
View ArticleU.S.: Atty. Gen. Holder Says US Will Allow Legal Marijuana Money In Banks
Policy Changes Will Protect Public Safety, Honor the Will of the Voters, and Help Small BusinessesDrug Policy Alliance: White House Appears to be Working in Good Faith with Colorado and Washington’s...
View ArticleU.S.: NY Sen. Chuck Schumer and TX Gov. Rick Perry Support Right To Legalize...
Growing Bi-Partisan Support on Heels of Obama Calling New Laws Legalizing Marijuana in Colorado and Washington ‘Important’Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) on Monday expressed his support for allowing...
View ArticleNew Mexico: Marijuana Legalization Resolution Does Not Pass Senate Rules...
Vigorous Debate Showed Bipartisan Interest for Marijuana Reform But Failed to Clear Committee As a Result of Lingering Political Fears and Constitutional ArgumentsOn a tie vote of 5 to 5, New Mexico...
View ArticleU.S.: Banks Now Allowed To Work With Marijuana Businesses; Justice Dept.,...
Policy Changes Will Protect Public Safety, Honor the Will of the Voters, and Help Small BusinessesDrug Policy Alliance’s Ethan Nadelmann: White House Appears to be Working in Good Faith with Colorado...
View ArticleCalifornia: Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance to Speak at the World...
Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, will speak at the World Affairs Council’s WorldAffairs 2014 conference in San Francisco on Saturday, March 15 at 10:30 a.m.WorldAffairs...
View ArticleU.S.: New Poll Confirms Americans Ready To End War On Drugs
Two Out of Three Americans Think People Shouldn’t Be Prosecuted for Possession of Drugs Such as Cocaine and Heroin; 63 Percent Support Moving Away from Mandatory Minimums; 54 Percent Support Marijuana...
View ArticleU.S.: Groundbreaking Report: America Needs To Significantly Reduce Prison...
U.S. Has Less Than 5% of World’s Population but Nearly 25% of People Behind Bars; Drug War Fueled Prison ExplosionA groundbreaking report released on Wednesday by the National Research Council, the...
View ArticleUruguay: Rules Released For World's First Modern National Legal Marijuana Market
Consumers Must Choose Between 3 Forms of Access: Domestic Cultivation, Membership Clubs, or Licensed Sales in PharmaciesGovernment Also Announces Marijuana Will Be Sold at $1/Gram to Undercut Illicit...
View ArticleGlobal: Former UN Secretary General's West Africa Commission On Drugs Calls...
West Africa Commission On Drugs Calls Drug War a Failure and for Treating Drug Use as Health IssueThe drug policy reform movement received a global push on Thursday with the release of the West Africa...
View ArticleJamaica Poised To Decriminalize Marijuana Possession, Approve Medical and...
Jamaican Minister of Justice Mark Golding on Friday released a statement announcing government support for a proposal to decriminalize the possession of up to two ounces of marijuana and the...
View ArticleColombia: Santos, Advocate for Drug Policy Reform, Re-Elected As President
President Santos Has Been at the Helm of Promoting Hemispheric Debate on Alternatives to War on DrugsColombia on Sunday re-elected President Juan Manuel Santos, who is widely praised for having...
View ArticleCaribbean Leaders Agree to Establish Commission to Review Regional Marijuana...
Commission Will Assess Whether Marijuana Should Be Reclassified At the semi-annual summit of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which concluded in Antigua this weekend, CARICOM...
View ArticleWorld Health Organization Calls for Drug Decriminalization and Broad Drug...
In a report published earlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) made a clear call for broad drug policy reforms, including decriminalization of drug use, harm reduction practices such as...
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