The program for the Harm Reduction International Conference 2025 (HR25) is out! The conference will take place in Bogotá, Colombia on 27-30 April 2025 at the Agora Bogotá Convention Center. (And there ...

Fatal drug overdoses have declined dramatically, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (CDC). The provisional drug overdose count for the 12-month period ...

A Mississippi medical marijuana dispensary operators lawsuit over a state advertising ban gets thrown out of federal court, and more. Federal Judge Throws Out Lawsuit Over Mississippi Restrictions on ...

Read Phil's 2023 top ten domestic drug policy stories here. UN Human Rights Office Calls for Sweeping Drug Policy Reform, Considering Decriminalization and Regulation A UN human rights report released ...

The state Senate on Monday approved Senate Bill 235 also known as "Tyler's Law" after an 18-year-old who died of a fentanyl overdose, which would impose a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for some ...

Bizarro: The Surreal Saga of America's Secret War on Synthetic Drugs and the Florida Kingpins It Captured by Jordan S. Rubin (2023, University of California Press,, 267 pp,, $27.95 HB) Burton Ritchie ...

A Texas Border Patrol agent waves the cocaine-laden car through, a Florida deputy is headed to prison for planting dope on innocent drivers and arresting them, and more. Let's get to it: In McAllen, ...

This post is the first of a series explaining our organization's current work and strategy. One part of that is work at the United Nations. A volunteer team of advocates spearheaded work on the ...

From our Facebook page today: Our ally Senator Trillanes of the Philippines is facing possible jailing, maybe as soon as tomorrow, as a result of legal maneuvers that strain credulity in both their ...

Part II of his series on ATF Fake Drug Stings Across America. During the 1980s, Miami was a rich, glittering, southern city, awash in cocaine, and all sorts of other illegal drugs. The drug scene was ...

Part I of a series on the ATF's Operation Gideon, targeting inner city "bad guys" with drug house robbery stings Early in May, a panel of judges from California's 9 th US Circuit Court of Appeals ...

Special to Drug War Chronicle by Houston-based investigative journalist Clarence Walker, [email protected]. Part 9 of his continuing series on Prosecutorial Misconduct and Police Corruption in Drug ...