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The War on Drugs Failed, But the Suffering It Caused Continues
“We didn’t have a heroin problem,” says one official. “We had an addiction problem."
A DEA Raid Meant to Clean Up a New Mexico Town. Instead, It Made Everything Worse
Early 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
Ethan Nadelmann Reexamines Adult Drug Use in New Podcast ‘Psychoactive’
The longtime drug-war opponent and founder of the Drug Policy Alliance covers everything from personal psychedelic use to the global future of drugs
Democrats Introduce Bill to End the War on Drugs
"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
Inside the Weed Legalization Bill the House of Representatives Just Passed
The 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