The Department of Justice will release 6,000 drug offenders from federal prisons, at the end of this month, as part of an effort to ease overcrowding of prisons. This post from High Times highlights the recent decision by the U.S. Sentencing Commission to provide early release for a number of drug offenders. In an effort to deal with prison overcrowding, as well as liberate ... Continue Reading
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Tracing America’s Drug War from Caffeine to Weed
This video from AJ+ traces 100 years of America’s drug war starting from early 1900s. This post from Esquire showcases the dynamic video that reviews the history of the war on drugs in the United States and the vicious cycle it has created as a result. https://youtu.be/ymxH9uVq8-g You name it, the U.S. has banned it at some point. Caffeine? Check. Alcohol? Check. ... Continue Reading
Stop The Misinformation About Drug Sellers and Violence
The popular media and the government continue to refer to drug sellers as violent criminals despite research findings to the contrary. This post from Drug Policy Alliance discusses how this myth of the violent drug seller has lethal consequences. One of the countless myths underlying the war on drugs is that people who sell drugs are violent. We’re told in school, by the ... Continue Reading
Oliver Sacks Explored the Brain with Legal LSD—Before Drug War
LSD helped Dr. Oliver Sacks be more empathic. It was legal then. Is the Drug War standing in the way of researching therapeutic benefits of psychedelics? This post from Drug Policy Alliance revisits the impact of drug war on drug education and research. What if Oliver Sacks had been born 20 years later? Would he have been able to explore new avenues of neurochemical and ... Continue Reading