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President Trump's attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has ordered federal prosecutors to seek maximum penalties for drug-related crimes. This is both cruel and stupid. It's cruel because Session's 5,000 prosecutors must now push for long jail sentences even for people who pose no violent threat...

Readers may note that several reports and evaluations of Mexican violence in 2016 have now been released, in calendar year 2017. As examples: 1. According to statistics of the Mexican government itself, murders in Mexico increased in 2016. See Mexico's murder rate spiked in 2016 due to...

Marijuana policy continues to motivate members of Congress, a leading drug testing firm reports that positive worker drug tests are on the rise, Maryland's first medical marijuana cultivator gets final approval to grow, and more. Marijuana Policy Bipartisan Senate Bill to End Federal Pot...

Workers at McLane drive forklifts and load hefty boxes into trucks. The grocery supplier, which runs a warehouse in Colorado, needs people who will stay alert – but prospective hires keep failing drug screens. "Some weeks this year, 90 percent of applicants would test positive for something,"...

Virginia Congressman Tom Garrett introduced legislation in February that aims to federally decriminalize marijuana. If passed, the bill would take marijuana off the federal controlled substances list. "I have long believed justice that isn't blind, isn't justice. Statistics indicate that...

People are turning to cannabis as an addiction recovery tool. Josh was 22 when he first tried cocaine. “It was in a social setting. Being young, a bit naive and a tad curious, I took the plunge thinking it wouldn’t mean anything,” Josh, who asked to be identified by first name only, told...

Despite the fact that Congress recently passed a new spending bill that included a provision prohibiting the Department of Justice and Drug Enforcement Agency from interfering in states' medical marijuana programs, the industry remains wary of President Trump's administration and its stance on...

A state lawmaker introduced legislation on Monday that would legalize marijuana in New Jersey, saying he was laying the groundwork to pass a new law almost as soon as Gov. Chris Christie leaves office. Sen. Nicholas Scutari's bill would make New Jersey one of a small but growing number of...

The drug problem in America, especially with regard to opiates, has been growing in the public consciousness. President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions want to do something about it. That's an admirable idea, but increasing federal involvement in the drug war is not the way to go...

Among the host of sensitive tasks that an HR department has to handle, there's one topic that seems to be coming up a lot more often. As medical marijuana continues to pass legislation to become legal across different states, HR experts and small business owners dealing with it themselves should...

CATS defender Zach Tuohy is taking up the fight of his Parkinson's sufferer father to fast-track patient access to medical cannabis. The star recruit has opened up for the first time about his Irish dad's health battle and his own strong stance on the contentious issue of patient access to the...

i'm a very infrequent user, i've only ever smoked 3 times before. the first time was a year ago, the second time was 4/20/17, and the last time was this past wednesday, 5/3 (it was a few hits from a bong and i didn't feel much). i have to take a pre employment drug test either this coming...

Under New York City law, possession or use of small amounts of marijuana results in a ticket from police. However, on Friday, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that enforcement of drug laws at the federal level will now be as harsh as possible. It's a reversal of Obama Administration...

The U.S. Sentencing Commission has released its overview of 2016. Marijuana accounts for close to a quarter of federal drug cases, but this overview found that cannabis consumers typically have less serious criminal histories than users of other drugs. Reading through the report, we noted five...

The Trump administration’s proposal to effectively eliminate the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the main agency coordinating federal drug policy, has earned some unlikely backup from drug-policy advocates who view it as part of the problem. The plan, which leaked in a 2018 budget memo...

Vermont's drug testing law is one of the most restrictive in the nation. Random testing is prohibited and some type of EAP or referral service is required in order to conduct drug testing. This law also applies to public sector workplace drug testing. However, on May 10th, 2017, the Vermont...

Addressing the mounting criticisms of the war on drugs, the Philippine delegation in Geneva fell short of recognizing the universal characteristic of human rights as it told a United Nations assembly that the Duterte administration's campaign is to protect the rights of "majority" of Filipinos...

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered federal prosecutors to return to tough policies against drug abusers, ending a push by the Obama administration to clear prisons of lower-level criminals serving long, mandatory minimum sentences. He rescinded two policy memos signed by a...

howdy stoners, i am an occasional (i would probably say RARE) marijuana user. i have probably smoked 5 or 6 times in my 24 years of life. last time i smoked was on february 11th '17 and it was a puny joint that was passed around a few times (i took 2 hits). i bought $1 drug test from the dollar...

The majority of Pennsylvanians polled by Franklin & Marshall College believe all marijuana use should be legalized. The poll, which The Morning Call reported on yesterday, found 56 percent of voters said yes to legalizing cannabis. Whatever you want to call it, it's all cannabis – and it's...