Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) has for the last month been circulating proposed legislation that would exempt hemp-derived cannabinoid ...

While THCA has now vanished from smoke shop shelves, hemp sellers have found an alternative in yet another obscure ...

The Chronicle may have had a respite, but law enforcement corruption related to drug prohibition took no break. In Charleston, South Carolina, a former Charleston County Sheriff's detention deputy was ...

Drugs are an issue which – like migration, social liberalization and economic tensions – has the capacity to shatter democratic and human rights norms. Perhaps no other extreme drug policy today does ...

Update: The Chamber did indeed rule in favor of jurisdiction. Duterte's trial is scheduled to begin on November 30, 2026. This is a consequential time in so many ways. One is that tomorrow morning ...

At the United Nations last month, we called for information-gathering to prepare future criminal prosecutions over the lethal US strikes on alleged "drug boats" in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.

Drugs are an issue which – like migration, social liberalization and economic tensions – has the capacity to shatter democratic and human rights norms. Perhaps no other extreme found in drug policies ...

The state Senate voted 35-13 Wednesday to approve Senate Bill 250, which would align state law with the federal ban on intoxicating and synthetic hemp products set to go into effect in November. The ...

Update: SB 682 died on March 23, but the other bills mentioned in this article remain alive. The legislative session doesn't end until December. Wisconsin doesn't allow legal marijuana or even medical ...

As Congress moves toward passage of an appropriations bill that includes funding for the USDA and FDA, a fight over whether to regulate or ban products containing cannabinoids derived from hemp is ...

Secretary of Defense Hegseth announces a new counter-narcotics task force in the Caribbean, Singapore again resorts to the death penalty for a drug offender, and more. Senate Republicans Block Effort ...

A San Francisco narc gets fired for having a sexual relationship with a snitch, a DHS officer heads for federal prison after getting stung, and more. In San Francisco, a veteran narcotics detective ...