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Criminal Injustice -- Inside America's National Disgrace
The libertarian Reason Magazine ("free minds and free markets") has devoted its Julyread more
View ArticleFederal Crack Prisoners Will Get Sentence Cuts [FEATURE]
Thousands of inmates imprisoned on federal crack cocaine charges will be able to seek sentence reductions and early release after the US Sentencing Commission vote unanimously June 30 to make changes...
View ArticleFederal Crack Cocaine Prisoners Start Coming Home [FEATURE]
Hundreds of federal crack cocaine prisoners began walking out prison Tuesday, the first beneficiaries of a US Sentencing Commission decision to apply retroactive sentencing reductions to people already...
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The Top Ten Domestic US Drug Policy Stories of 2011 [FEATURE]
We can put 2011 to bed now, but not before looking back one last time at the good, the bad, and the ugly. It was a year of rising hopes and crushing defeats, of gaining incremental victories and...
View ArticleJacksonville Police Kill Armed Man in Drug Raid
[image:1 align:left]A Jacksonville, Florida, narcotics detective shot and killed an armed man during a drug raid aimed at arresting a small-scale crack dealer last Thursday. Juan Montrice Lawrence, 40,...
View ArticleJacksonville Cop Kills Unarmed Drug Suspect
A Jacksonville, Florida, police officer shot and killed an unarmed drug suspect during a traffic stop early last Wednesday morning when the man reached down inside his car. Davinian Darnell Williams,...
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Chronicle Book Review Essay: Two Faces of the Drug War
Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History (2012, Lyons Press, 375 pp., $24.95 HB)Operation Fly Trap: LA Gangs, Drugs, and the Law, by...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- July 18, 2014
Tens of thousands of federal drug prisoners could get out early after the US Sentencing Commission votes to make guideline reductions retroactive, the Ohio Supreme Court moves to cut some crack...
View ArticleFour Reasons Black Incarceration Rates Are Going Down, While White Rates Are...
It's long been a given that tremendous racial disparities plague the nation's criminal justice system. That's still true -- blacks are incarcerated at a rate five times that of whites -- but the racial...
View ArticleTwo Takes on the Global Drug War and Global Drug Cultures [FEATURE]
America shows signs of emerging from the century-long shadow of drug prohibition, with marijuana leading the way and a psychedelic decriminalization movement rapidly gaining steam. It also seems as if...
View ArticleBook Review -- Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed
Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed by David Farber (2019, Cambridge University Press, 214 pp., $24.95 HB)[image:1 align:left]As we live through the year of the pandemic,...
View ArticleBook Review: How to Regulate Stimulants
How to Regulate Stimulants: A Practical Guide by Steve Rolles, Harvey Slade, and James Nicholls (2020, Transform Drug Policy Foundation, 304 pp., $20 PB)[image:1 align:left]Marijuana is now legal,...
View ArticleBook Review: Drug Use for Grown-Ups
Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear, by Carl Hart (2021, Penguin Press, 290 pp., $28.00 HB)[image:1 align:left]Dr. Carl Hart is a one-man drug and drug user destigmatization...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rejects Reduced Charges for Low-Level Crack Offenders, ICC...
Connecticut lawmakers will meet in special session this week in a bid to get marijuana legalization done, Wyoming activists began initiative campaigns for marijuana decriminalization and medical...
View ArticleHouse Passes Bill to End Crack/Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity, Bolivia...
Grand Rapids, Michigan, endorses a symbolic psychedelic reform, the House votes to end the crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity, and more. [image:1 align:left caption:true]PsychedelicsGrand Rapids...
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