Seducing 18-year-olds to fall in love or pretending to be friends and then tricking them into procuring small amounts of marijuana so they can charge them with felonies is beyond slimy and diametrically opposed to the officers' charge to "serve and protect."
We are working to change current drug policies from arrest and mass incarceration to therapeutic and restorative policies that will reduce the damage to our communities while improving public safety.
It's been two years since the dramatic killing of drug kingpin Arturo Beltran Leyva. But if removing critical targets proves to accomplish nothing when it comes to interrupting the flow of narcotics -- what will it take for the violence to subside?
The Daily Show has done the best journalism to date on the growing trend of opportunistic lawmakers introducing legislation to drug test people who receive unemployment benefits.
By bringing the intolerable conditions down to the human level, Miss Bala succeeds in making the tragedy dynamic and relatable. This is a cry for action before things spin too far out of control.
To the extent that there is any problem at all with painkiller abuse and overdoses, it's due more to a decade of aggressive policing, obstinate federal law enforcement agencies, and the encroachment of law enforcement into the practice of medicine than lax government oversight.
American drug policy, and our gutless, unreasoned refusal to change it, has caused the epic violence south of the border.
U.S. citizens wait impatiently for their government to join the rest of the hemisphere in rethinking the failed drug war. Our southern neighbors cannot afford to wait any longer.
Would regulation increase marijuana use? Perhaps, but judging by how well and truly drugged up we already are it is tough to imagine that a marginal increase in marijuana use is going to make a meaningful difference.
Today, the march for civil rights isn't about convincing Americans that racism is wrong. It is about getting money out of politics, so that the profit from institutional racism is eliminated.
No one has ever died from smoking marijuana. But getting busted with a small amount of marijuana has led to countless tragic deaths.
While tens of thousands of Mexicans have lost their lives in the ongoing drug war, millions more have become devoted to Saint Death.
Should juries vote "not guilty" on low-level marijuana charges to send a message about our country's insane marijuana arrest policy?
Last week we witnessed the U.S. leaving Iraq after nine long years and questionable success. It is time to find an exit strategy from our 40-year-old war on drugs that is unquestionably a failure.
There has long been a "drug war" surrounding marijuana. Our nation's marijuana policy has not served us much better than the failed experiment with alcohol prohibition many decades ago.
Is the U.S. enforcing the right drug policy? Is Mexico congruent with pushing the drug war to the limit, being aware that a gigantic consumers' market is at the front door?