The War on Drugs Failed, But the Suffering It Caused Continues
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“We didn’t have a heroin problem,” says one official. “We had an addiction problem."
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A DEA Raid Meant to Clean Up a New Mexico Town. Instead, It Made Everything Worse
Posted in: Culture FeaturesEarly one morning in 1999, federal agents descended on tiny Chimayó, New Mexico as part of a nationwide heroin crackdown. Locals say it broke up families and drove addiction deeper into the community
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Ethan Nadelmann Reexamines Adult Drug Use in New Podcast ‘Psychoactive’
Posted in: Culture FeaturesThe longtime drug-war opponent and founder of the Drug Policy Alliance covers everything from personal psychedelic use to the global future of drugs
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Inside Drug Kingpin El Chapo’s Secret 1998 Meeting With the DEA
Posted in: Culture FeaturesIn this excerpt from the forthcoming 'El Chapo: The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord,' Noah Hurowitz reports new details of the clandestine meeting
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Democrats Introduce Bill to End the War on Drugs
Posted in: Politics News"The War on Drugs stands as a stain on our national conscience since its very inception," Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman said in announcing the Drug Policy Reform Act, which would decriminalize all drugs
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Inside the Weed Legalization Bill the House of Representatives Just Passed
Posted in: Culture FeaturesThe MORE Act, the first legalization bill to make it to the floor of Congress, would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, and begin to give back to the communities hit hardest by the War on Drugs
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Weed Legalization 3.0: How New Jersey Could Be the Tipping Point for Legal Marijuana
Posted in: Culture FeaturesThe state is going to introduce legalization in the northeast. But will it create a new paradigm, or repeat the mistakes of other legalized states?
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Oregon Decriminalizes All Drugs, While D.C. Decriminalizes Psychedelics
Posted in: Culture NewsFive states also legalize marijuana in continued assault against war on drugs
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The Rolling Stones, War on Drugs Team Up for ‘Scarlet’ Remix
Posted in: Music NewsFrontman Adam Granduciel turns previously lost Stones track into a psychedelic dance party
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Legalizing Marijuana Might Decrease Arrests, But it Won’t End Racial Profiling
Posted in: Culture NewsThe War on Drugs rages on, even in states where marijuana has been decriminalized or legalized
