Drug Policy Question of the Week – 1-11-12 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 1-11-12. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3706 Question of the Week: How many people are under the control of the U.S. criminal justice system? An April 2011 report by the […]
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Marijuana Prisoners
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 12-19-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 12-19-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3677 Question of the Week: How many people are in prison for marijuana? Aficionados will recall that there are important statistics in drug policy […]
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Cannabis rescheduling
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 12-15-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 12-15-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3671 Question of the Week: How can cannabis be rescheduled? According to the Congressional Research Service, the current scheduling scheme for various drugs called […]
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Synthetic Cannabinoids
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 11-30-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 11-30-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3650 Question of the Week: What are synthetic cannabinoids? As described in an October 2011 report by Congressional Research Service, “Synthetic cannabinoids are substances […]
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Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 11-21-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 11-21-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3639 Question of the Week: What are mandatory minimum sentences? As described by the Sentencing Project, “Along with the stepped-up pace of arrests in […]
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Get Busted for Marijuana; Work as a Police Informant; Get Killed
By Tony Newman, No one has ever died from smoking marijuana. But getting busted with a small amount of marijuana has led to countless tragic deaths. This week, Shelley Hilliard, a 19-year-old woman from Detroit, was killed after working as a police informant. On October 20, Hilliard was arrested for […]
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LEAP visits Supervised Injection Site
LEAP’s Executive Director, Neill Franklin, visits Insite in Vancouver, where vulnerable people can meet the chemical part of their addiction in a legal, regulated environment. Witness a working model of the benefits of moving away from the criminalization of drug abuse.
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Frontline: Opium Brides
The unexpected collateral damage of the counter-narcotics effort in Afghanistan. Najibullah Quraishi journeys deep into the Afghan countryside to reveal the deadly bargain local farm families have been forced to make with drug smugglers in order to survive.
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Champion of Pain Relief, Siobhan Reynolds Dead in Plane Crash
All of us are irreplaceable to someone—but few are irreplaceable in the public sphere. Siobhan Reynolds, 50, founder of the Pain Relief Network, who died in a plane crash Christmas Eve, was the exception. She tirelessly, compassionately and at huge financial and emotional cost to herself, worked to debunk myths […]