Legislators aim to snuff out penalties for pot use It's a banner day for drug policy reform. The top story on CNN for a while this morning was a ...

In a position paper, a leading American medical association has endorsed the medicinal use of marijuana, called for more studies of its medical uses, and urged the US government to ...

On the Bill Maher show this past weekend (which is absolute must-see TV), Jeremy Scahill appeared via satellite to talk about his book Blackwater: The ...

Stop Funding The Taliban Through the Drug War The drug war is in part a human rights issue. With half a million people in prison for nonviolent drug offenses, ...

Last Friday I met DRCNet Executive Director David Borden at the Los Angeles Sheraton Universal, where he was attending the 2007 NORML conference. ...

It's a universal principle. Push something into the shadows, it gets stronger and metastasizes into something far worse--usually by orders of magnitude. It's true with personal psychology, and it's certainly ...

Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40% A single joint of cannabis raises the risk of schizophrenia by more than 40 per cent, a disturbing ...

A California woman whose doctor says marijuana is the only medicine keeping her alive can face federal prosecution on drug charges, a U.S. appeals court ruled Wednesday.

Pot is now America's biggest cash crop, by a wide margin. That's right: Nationwide, the estimated cannabis production of $35.8 billion exceeds corn ($23 billion), soybeans ($17.6 billion) and ...