Marijuana Legalization Results In Reduced Smuggling Across Southern Border
With an ever increasing number of U.S. states legalizing both medical and recreational cannabis, the demand for black market cannabis from Mexico...
America’s Racist War On Drugs
President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs in June 1971. At the time, the United States was fighting a literal war in Vietnam that...
Virginia Marijuana Arrests At The Highest In A Decade
In Virginia, marijuana remains illegal, although support for decriminalization is very high. Nevertheless, arrests for possession of small amounts have been increasing since 2016....
117 Pounds of Marijuana Found During Traffic Stop In Idaho
Marijuana remains completely illegal in Idaho, unlike two bordering states, Washington and Oregon, where medical cannabis and adult use are legal. Idaho’s marijuana laws...
Wyoming Man Busted With More Than 60 Lbs of Marijuana
Marijuana remains illegal in Wyoming, although an opinion poll shows that support for legalization is growing. While cannabis remains illegal, the black market is...
Report: In Alabama, Blacks Are Four Times More Likely Than Whites To Be Arrested...
In Alabama, black people are four times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana. The home state of Jeff Sessions, the former...
Las Vegas Man Sentenced for Marijuana Distribution Scheme
In May, the Department of Justice (DOJ) for the Western District of Pennsylvania announced that it had obtained two guilty pleas from Ryan Schanck,...
Study Shows Legal Marijuana Makes Police More Effective
A report published in July in the scholarly journal Police Quarterly finds that in two states with legal adult-use marijuana, statistical evidence shows that...
Manhattan DA Implements Policy Preventing Low-Level Marijuana Prosecutions
On July 31, the office of Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., the district attorney of Manhattan, told the press that on the following day, the...
After Legalization, Racial Disparities Still Remain in Marijuana Arrest Rates
A recently released research report by the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) shows that even as marijuana arrests have declined in legal states, racial disparity...
