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Update: Taking swift action, a federal district court judge last night granted an ACLU request and temporarily halted an unconstitutional policy at a public college in Missouri requiring all incoming students to submit to mandatory drug tests. Judge Nanette K. … Continue reading →

Link Police and FBI agents arrested a drug suspect in Alameda on Wednesday, but not before mistakenly trying to raid a home across the street belonging to a network TV reporter and her political consultant husband.

Harm Reduction International has released a new report: The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2011 One of the key findings of the report is: There are likely to be more than a thousand people executed every year for … Continue reading →

I’ve heard that Kevin Sabet is planning on leaving the Drug Czar’s office next week to take a job in the private sector. He’s been a prime behind-the-scenes player in the ONDCP and is likely to have had a strong … Continue reading →

… but what it can do is get out of the way and let the states experiment if they choose. But the entire federal government with its President and all his federal agencies and armed forces, along with the entire … Continue reading →

It is not hard to see how critics of the war on drugs got the impression that Barack Obama was sympathetic to their cause. Jacob Sullum does a fine job of analyzing Barack Obama’s record so far regarding drug policy, … Continue reading →

This one’s from last week, but I couldn’t resist passing it on… A Las Cruces woman has been charged $1,122 by a local hospital for a forcible body cavity search ordered by the Metro Narcotics Agency that did not turn … Continue reading →

The Drug Czar has a new website. It appears to be an effort to coordinate all the White House websites, and even all the White House blogs. It looks pretty, but unfortunately is based on the same old propaganda. If … Continue reading →

A Decade After 9/11, Police Departments Are Increasingly Militarized – Radley Balko with a must-read piece in the Huffington Post. The problem with this mingling of domestic policing with military operations is that the two institutions have starkly different missions. … Continue reading →

In a free society it is critical to make sure that law enforcement is properly situated within the organizational structure and that it has strong and transparent systems of control. In order to combat crime, we cede extraordinary powers to … Continue reading →