Items tagged with US drug policy
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| White House says true cost of opioid drug epidemic in 2015 was $504bn [20.11.2017] | The White House says the true cost of the opioid drug epidemic in 2015 was $504bn. In an analysis, the Council of Economic Advisers says the figure i ... |
| The price of cannabis is falling, suggesting a supply glut [16.11.2017] | In the US cannabis operations, now legitimate in many states, are forbidden from the usual business deductions and face crippling tax bills of as muc ... |
| California proposes armored cars to transport pot tax money [07.11.2017] | California should use armored cars to transport hundreds of millions of dollars in cash tax payments expected next year with the state's legal mariju ... |
| Money on the table for a safe drug consumption site in Seattle [07.11.2017] | Despite the backlash from various King County cities against the idea of establishing safe drug consumption sites, the Seattle City Council is moving ... |
| The truth about the US ‘opioid crisis’ – prescriptions aren’t the problem [07.11.2017] | The news media is awash with hysteria about the opioid crisis (or opioid epidemic). But what exactly are we talking about? If you Google “opioid cris ... |
| Colombian farmers keep growing coca despite government crackdown and U.S. pressure [27.10.2017] | According to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, Colombia’s overall coca crop grew by a staggering 52 percent last year, to 345,000 acres, an area te ... |
| Record-high support for legalizing marijuana use in U.S. [25.10.2017] | Americans continue to warm to legalizing marijuana, with 64% now saying its use should be made legal. This is the highest level of public support Gal ... |
| People are dying because of ignorance, not because of opioids [19.10.2017] | The vast majority of opioid users do not become addicts. Users’ chances of becoming addicted increase if they are white, male, young and unemployed a ... |
| The drug industry’s triumph over the DEA [15.10.2017] | In April 2016, at the height of the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history, Congress effectively stripped the Drug Enforcement Administration of its ... |
| Alaska voters reject local bans on legalized marijuana by wide margins [04.10.2017] | Voters in some parts of Alaska rejected efforts to ban commercial marijuana cultivation and retail sales, three years after the nation’s largest stat ... |
| Commission makes recommendations for tackling opioid crisis in North America [03.10.2017] | The Global Commission on Drug Policy has issued recommendations on tackling North America's opioid crisis, calling for the immediate expansion of har ... |
| IDPC response to the INCB Annual Report for 2016 [30.09.2017] | The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Annual Report for 2016 is, as usual, a mixed bag of high quality data and sometimes doubtful politic ... |
| Legal loophole in DC creates bizarre pot bazaar [28.09.2017] | A 2014 ballot initiative to legalize recreational use passed overwhelmingly in Washington DC. But unlike the eight states that have legalized recreat ... |
| More people were arrested last year over pot than for murder, rape, aggravated assault and robbery — combined [26.09.2017] | In 2016 more people were arrested for marijuana possession than for all crimes the FBI classifies as violent, according to 2016 crime data. Marijuana ... |
| How to win a war on drugs [22.09.2017] | Decades ago, the United States and Portugal both struggled with illicit drugs and took decisive action — in diametrically opposite directions. The U. ... |
| Jeff Sessions’s evidence-free crime strategy [20.09.2017] | Over the last thirty years researchers, law enforcement leaders and communities have pushed for smarter, better violence prevention — spurred in larg ... |
| The marijuana war has gone local, and pot advocates are losing — badly [17.09.2017] | The fight over the legalization of marijuana in Massachusetts isn’t over. But one side has already gone home. Last November, a well-funded and well-o ... |
| Trump delivers shock rebuke to Colombia over cocaine surge [14.09.2017] | U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening that he may decertify Colombia as a partner in the war against drugs unless the South American nation reve ... |
| Uruguay setting up dedicated cannabis dispensaries after banks scare off pharmacies [14.09.2017] | Uruguay’s government announced that it is changing its retail system for legalized marijuana because banks are making it difficult for pharmacies to ... |
| Marijuana use in the U.S. has increased since 2005, but not because of legislation, study says [12.09.2017] | American adults are smoking more pot, but increased cannabis use does not appear to be due to wider availability of legal marijuana, a new study show ... |
| Legal marijuana is almost here. If only pot farmers were on board [09.09.2017] | More than nine months after California voted to legalize recreational marijuana, only a small share of the tens of thousands of cannabis farmers in N ... |
| Teen marijuana use falls to 20-year low, defying legalization opponents’ predictions [07.09.2017] | In 2016, rates of marijuana use among the nation's 12- to 17-year-olds dropped to their lowest level in more than two decades, according federal surv ... |
| How legalization caused the price of marijuana to collapse [05.09.2017] | All the diverse effects of legalizing recreational marijuana may not be clear for a number of years, but one consequence has become evident almost im ... |
| The first count of fentanyl deaths in 2016: Up 540% in three years [02.09.2017] | Drug overdoses killed roughly 64,000 people in the United States last year, according to the first governmental account of nationwide drug deaths to ... |
| Washington’s pot law hasn’t meant more use by kids, new study says [01.09.2017] | Youth use of pot and cannabis-abuse treatment admissions have not increased in Washington since marijuana was legalized, according to a new analysis ... |
| Anti-legalization group urges feds to “systematically shut down” cannabis industry [30.08.2017] | This month, governors from Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington, the first four states to legalize recreational marijuana, each sent letters to th ... |
| What does departure of top US anti-drug diplomat mean for LatAm policy? [30.08.2017] | The planned resignation of the US State Department's top anti-drug official raises further questions about the future of US counternarcotics efforts ... |
| How the war on drugs fueled the fentanyl crisis [29.08.2017] | A staggering 59,000 people died of drug overdose in 2016 according to a recent New York Times analysis. Annual overdose deaths in the US have already ... |
| How Anti-Mafia laws could bring down legal pot [28.08.2017] | Earlier this summer, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Colorado decided that the "noxious odors" from a pot farm could be lowering nearby pro ... |
| Pot was flying off the shelves in Uruguay. Then U.S. banks weighed in [25.08.2017] | The pharmacies selling pot were doing a brisk business. After Uruguay became the first country in the world to fully legalize marijuana sales for rec ... |
| Uruguay finds no banks for the bongs [22.08.2017] | Understated and simpatico, former Uruguayan president Jose Mujica isn't easily rattled. Just don't mess with his reefer. That was the message from Mo ... |
| Secret supervised drug injection facility has been operating at US site for years [08.08.2017] | For nearly three years, in an undisclosed US city, a social service agency has quietly been inviting people to inject illegal drugs at a clandestine ... |
| Huff, puff, pass? AG’s pot fury not echoed by task force [05.08.2017] | The betting was that law-and-order Attorney General Jeff Sessions would come out against the legalized marijuana industry with guns blazing. But the ... |
| This cannabis company plans to turn a California desert town into a pot paradise [04.08.2017] | American Green announced it is buying all 80 acres of Nipton, which includes its Old West-style hotel, a handful of houses, an RV park and a coffee s ... |
| U.S. Attorney General Sessions criticizes Washington state’s legal marijuana system [04.08.2017] | Is U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions about to crack down on legal marijuana? A recent letter he sent to top Washington officials, critiquing the st ... |
| Congress is heading for a confrontation with Sessions over marijuana [03.08.2017] | Sessions is seeking to crack down on marijuana use while lawmakers from both parties are pushing legislation that would do the opposite. Measures hav ... |
| White House panel recommends declaring national emergency on opioids [31.07.2017] | President Trump’s commission on the opioid crisis asked him to declare a national emergency to deal with the epidemic. The members of the bipartisan ... |
| Senators defy Jeff Sessions and vote to extend medical marijuana protections [27.07.2017] | A congressional committee voted to extend protections of state medical marijuana programs against federal interference, in defiance of a request from ... |
| What actually happened to violent crime after Washington legalized marijuana [26.07.2017] | An upcoming report from a U.S. Department of Justice task force is expected to link marijuana use to violent crime, which some fear might signal the ... |
| Marijuana dispensaries decrease crime, not increase it, study finds [18.07.2017] | Conventional wisdom says marijuana dispensaries make neighborhoods less safe, but a new study from UC Irvine suggests the conventional wisdom is wron ... |
| California considering creating a state-run bank for cannabis businesses [16.07.2017] | California government, financial and marijuana business leaders met last week in a far-from-resolved debate over whether a state-run bank could be th ... |
| A brief history of DARE, the anti-drug program Jeff Sessions wants to revive [12.07.2017] | Speaking at a DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) conference, Attorney General Jeff Sessions praised the past work of the famous anti-drug program ... |
| Cannabis cash conundrum: Some businesses bury money, others truck it to a federal vault [12.07.2017] | With recreational use set to become legal next year under Proposition 64, cannabis sales in the state are expected to top $7.5 billion in 2020, up fr ... |
| Oregon bill decriminalizes possession of heroin, cocaine and other drugs [11.07.2017] | The Oregon legislature passed a bill that reclassifies possession of several drugs from a felony to a misdemeanor, reducing the punishments and expan ... |
| Leafing Las Vegas: recreational marijuana goes on sale in Nevada [01.07.2017] | Nevada has become the fifth state in the US selling marijuana for recreational purposes, opening a market that is expected to outpace any other in th ... |
| A 1930s California story shows why the war on drugs is a failure [16.06.2017] | For one bright and flickering moment last year, it looked like the global war on drugs was about to die. California – the sixth largest economy in th ... |
| Congress is considering a bill that would expand Jeff Sessions’s power to escalate the war on drugs [16.06.2017] | Congress is considering a bill that would expand the federal government's ability to pursue the war on drugs, granting new power to the attorney gene ... |
| Jeff Sessions personally asked Congress to let him prosecute medical marijuana providers [13.06.2017] | Attorney General Jeff Sessions is asking congressional leaders to undo federal medical marijuana protections that have been in place since 2014, acco ... |
| Recreational marijuana sales start July 1 in Nevada [12.06.2017] | As the Silver State enacts the will of its voters — Nevadans approved recreational marijuana with 54 percent of the vote on Question 2 last November ... |
| Drug deaths in America are rising faster than ever [05.06.2017] | Drug overdose deaths in 2016 most likely exceeded 59,000, the largest annual jump ever recorded in the United States, according to preliminary data c ... |
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