Washington, DC, Approves Natural Entheogen Initiative
Nov 4, 2020 · 2020. Voters in the nation's capital have overwhelmingly approved an initiative to effectively decriminalize the cultivation, use, possession, and distribution of natural psychedelics, such as ayahuasca, magic mushrooms, and peyote. According to unofficial election results, the measure was winning with 76% of the vote.
Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "Cop in the Hood: My Year …
Nov 28, 2008 · For a bit more than a year, the Eastern District was Peter Moskos' beat. The Harvard educated sociologist (now on the faculty of City University of New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice) with an interest in police socialization joined the Baltimore Police Department to become a "participant-observer" on the sociology of policing in that department, enabling him to achieve a degree of ...
Washington State Supreme Court Limits Vehicle Searches
Apr 9, 2012 · In an 8-1 decision last Thursday, the Washington state Supreme Court ruled that police must obtain a search warrant to search a vehicle even if they believe it contains evidence of the crime for which the person was arrested. The decision in State v. Snapp overturns the convictions of two men in unrelated but consolidated cases where police ...
Serial Offender: Miami Fed. Prosecutor Called on Misconduct in …
Aug 8, 2013 · On September 2, 2011, US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida in Miami Wilfredo Ferrer announced the arrest of 56 Colombians in a trio of separate foreign investigations -- Operation Seven Trumpets, Operation Under the Sea, and Operation BACRIM (Bandas Criminales).In what was one of America's biggest drug busts, authorities also seized 21 airplanes, 12 submarines, millions of dollars ...
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StoptheDrugWar.org's cannabis policy program includes reporting, lobbying, research and advocacy to help guide the transition to legalization, and engagement with drug policy at the United Nations. In 2023, we are engaging with US foreign policy related to drugs in the legislative process, pressing human rights, rule of law issues and ...
Why Do Police Really Oppose Marijuana Legalization?
Sep 26, 2007 · Submitted by smorgan on Wed, 09/26/2007 - 9:15pm. The superb efforts of our friends at Law Enforcement Against Prohibition notwithstanding, police generally oppose efforts to reform marijuana laws. Initiatives in Colorado and Nevada were vehemently contested by law-enforcement interests, who claimed that reform would invite crime and undermine ...
Marijuana Use at All-Time High Among Young Adults, Cartel …
Sep 8, 2021 · Marijuana Policy. Marijuana Use at All-Time High Among College-Aged Adults in 2020.Marijuana use continued to rise among college students over the past five years and remained at historically high levels among same-aged peers who are not in college in 2020, according to survey results from the 2020 Monitoring the Future (MTF) panel study.This represents the highest levels of marijuana use ...
In Drug Case, Supreme Court Holds That ... - StoptheDrugWar.org
Jun 27, 2018 · White House Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco had urged the justices to hold Mr. Byrd to the terms of the rental agreement. "It is common knowledge that car rentals are a personal transaction that does not make the car available for general enjoyment and that the straw man car rentals disserve society by frustrating law enforcement efforts to prevent smuggling and other crimes," he argued.
Mexican Drug War - StoptheDrugWar.org
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has filed a marijuana legalization bill in Pennsylvania, the Mexican city of Culiacan is at a standstill amid fears of intra-cartel clashes, and more. Zurich, Switzerland. The city seems happy with its year-old pilot …
In Memoriam: William F. Buckley, Conservative Supporter of Drug ...
Feb 29, 2008 · William F. Buckley, the dean of American conservatism and advocate of drug legalization, died Wednesday at his home in Connecticut. He was 82. Buckley, the scion of a wealthy Connecticut family, came to public prominence with the 1951 publication of "God and Man at Yale," a searing critique of what he saw as agnostic and collectivist tendencies ...