Voters have a chance on Tuesday to return this northern Alabama city to the days of Prohibition.
Billy and his parents had been at odds. The junior at Boulder's Fairview High School, whose identity has been changed for this story, had been letting his hair grow and was routinely getting it styled. He was buying things without any visible means of income.
Marijuana is one of the most commonly used illicit substances in the United States. However, the history of the drug is ripe with controversy ranging from its use to its illegalization.
Back in March 2002, retired New Jersey State Police Lt. Jack Cole made headlines when he and four other former cops teamed up to form the drug policy reform group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.
One of Britain's most senior police officers is to call for all drugs – including heroin and cocaine – to be legalised and urges the Government to declare an end to the "failed" war on illegal narcotics.
The annual FBI Uniform Crime Report came out last week, and the news it brought about drug arrests in 2006 was no surprise.
Jack Cole, executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, visited the editorial board Thursday, along with L.A. Chamber of Commerce chairman David Fleming, for a discussion of his group's plan to end America's war on drugs. Some highlights:
An article advocating the decriminalization of prostitution.
McCain told me there was no similarity between Alcohol Prohibition and the War on Drugs. And like Romney, he thinks we need to institute another "Just Say No" campaign, as if that actually worked the first time around.
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough says kava will be outlawed in remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory by the end of the week.
In the face of major new escalations about to be announced by the White House in a new Plan Mexico, a $ 5 billion dollar effort to secure our southern border, I think it imperative that America become aware of exactly what is going on and what is at stake for American national se …
A coalition of California marijuana growers and dealers has offered Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger one billion dollars to solve the current state budget crisis. The group, calling itself Let Us Pay Taxes makes the offer through its web site LetUsPayTaxes.com.
Recent statistics from a variety of organizations have pointed to an alarming fact of life in the United States – we're quite literally a nation of junkies.
The standard, schoolbook history of alcohol prohibition in the United States goes like this:
ince March 2003, we have been listening to George W. Bush and his surrogates offer the American People a progression of reasons for invading the sovereign nation of Iraq and the resulting bloody mayhem.
Alcohol will be banned in Alice Springs town camps, as the Northern Territory government made its first response today to a damning child abuse report that prompted Canberra's intervention.
Is repudiating one's past just a part of growing up, or is it what it seems: selling out? (I'm not really wondering this about Coleman, since he's the poster boy for selling out.)Years ago, in a lifetime far away, you did not oppose the legalization of marijuana.
Justice John Paul Stevens, the third-oldest person ever to sit on the Supreme Court, turned 87 on April 20. If he's still on the court 142 days from now, he'll overtake Roger B. Taney, who died as chief justice in 1864 at the age of 87 years 209 days.
Two of the Northern Territory's Indigenous politicians say there needs to be more than alcohol bans in remote communities to stop liquor fuelling child sex abuse. Alcohol is already banned on the majority of Aboriginal land in the NT.
A judge has ordered Paris Hilton returned to jail to serve out her 45-day sentence for a parole violation in a reckless driving case. She was taken from court screaming. "It's not right!" shouted the weeping Hilton. "Mom!" she called out to her mother in the audience.
People in Potter thought it was a straightforward ballot question: Should we allow restaurants to sell beer?
Persons and pundits both local and national are criticizing the war in Iraq as un-winnable and demanding a change in policy while, sadly, they seem indifferent to the glaring failure of another war which has been pursued for over 40 years, cost more money, destroyed more lives, k …
Internet Gambling Enforcement Act casinogamblingweb have started a Petition to reverse the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.
From Albuquerque to Antwerp to Auckland, from Bakersfield to Berlin to Buenos Aires, in some 232 towns and cities across the globe, tens -- if not hundreds -- of thousands of members of the international cannabis culture took to the streets in the annual Global Marijuana March to …
A new bill in Congress may mean the beginning of the end for the online poker prohibition.
New research on "vaporization" has demonstrated that all those fears about the ill effects of smoking marijuana are 100 percent obsolete.