Every year we hold seminars on knowing your rights, and how to handle encounters with police officers. The main takeaway from this is that you ALWAYS say NO to search requests from police officers. This story demonstrates perfectly why you do this, even if you know you’re not guilty of anything wrong.
From the New York [...]

Drug policy reformers, myself included, are always pointing out the similarities between Alcohol Prohibition of the 20’s and 30’s and the modern Drug Prohibition we’re still living under. Too often people pass off the comparison because we don’t experience the levels of violence from organized crime like the country did during Alcohol Prohibition. What they [...]

One of the most common arguments I hear about marijuana is that if it is legal more people are going to use it, which is an understandable belief. The problem is there isn’t any evidence to support this claim, especially considering countries with looser drug laws tend to have lower drug usage rates [previous WHO [...]

The World Health Organization released a study today called “Toward a Global View of Alcohol, Tobacco, Cannabis, and Cocaine Use” that has some very interesting findings. For starters, it shows that the United States has higher levels of cocaine and marijuana consumption than any other country, despite our very stringent drug policies.  The second major [...]

I know this is kind of old news, but this story needs to continue to be circulated. And that is the story of Rachel Hoffman.
Rachel Hoffman is dead now, because she acted as an informant for the Tallahassee police. Basically, the police arrested Rachel for possession of marijuana and ecstasy after raiding her apartment. They [...]