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2024年10月5日 · Dramatic Drop in Overdose Deaths Reported, Idaho Marijuana Legalization Init Filed, More... (9/19/24) The Democratic candidate for governor in West Virginia says legalize marijuana, the Seattle city council approves neighborhood exclusion orders for drug offenders, and more. Phillip SmithThu, 09/19/2024 - 5:48pm.
Utah SWAT Team Kills Drug Fugitive in Standoff
2014年6月6日 · A man wanted on drug and other arrest warrants who barricaded himself inside a West Haven auto body shop was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon when he allegedly pointed a weapon at SWAT officers after a standoff lasting several hours. Kristopher Chase Simmons, 35, becomes the 21st person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations ...
Chronicle Magazine Review: The Baffler, No. 74, Altered States
2024年6月20日 · This smart and scrappy rag has earned it. Chronicle Magazine Review: The Baffler, No. 74, Altered States (June 2024,136 pp., $14 PB) Writing about drugs and drug policy doesn't have to come from academic presses or book-length journalistic reportage. Maia Szalavitz writes consistently cogent and well-informed short pieces on various aspects of ...
Europe: Rastafarians Can Smoke Marijuana, Italian Court Rules
2008年7月18日 · But the Court of Cassation said the court of first appeal had failed to consider that the man smoked because of his religious beliefs. According to the high court, Rastafarianism allows for smoking up to 10 grams a day. Rastas smoke the herb "with the memory and in the belief that the sacred plant grew on the tomb of King Solomon," the court said.
Bipartisan Senate Bill Takes Aim at Shein and Temu -- and …
2024年9月12日 · Message: Fentanyl, low value intradiction The astounding death toll from the introduction of Fentanyl into the illegal drug market has been devastating. As a result, politicians, always looking for a quick hook to grab voters always come up with useless, expensive, hair brained schemes to try to reduce the death toll.
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3 天之前 · Hawaii wants to see what a legal marijuana market in the state would look like, the death toll continues to rise from Sinaloa Cartel faction fights, and more.
Methadone Rules to Be Eased Next Month, GA Pharmacy Begins …
2024年9月20日 · Marijuana Policy. Illinois Supreme Court Rules Smell of Burnt Marijuana Not Probable Cuse for Vehicle Search.The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the smell of burnt marijuana alone does not give police probable cause to search a vehicle.
Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "Cop in the Hood: My Year …
2008年11月28日 · For a bit more than a year, the Eastern District was Peter Moskos' beat. The Harvard educated sociologist (now on the faculty of City University of New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice) with an interest in police socialization joined the Baltimore Police Department to become a "participant-observer" on the sociology of policing in that department, enabling him to achieve a degree of ...
In Drug Case, Supreme Court Holds That ... - StoptheDrugWar.org
2018年6月27日 · White House Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco had urged the justices to hold Mr. Byrd to the terms of the rental agreement. "It is common knowledge that car rentals are a personal transaction that does not make the car available for general enjoyment and that the straw man car rentals disserve society by frustrating law enforcement efforts to prevent smuggling and other crimes," he argued.
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In 2023, we are engaging with US foreign policy related to drugs in the legislative process, pressing human rights, rule of law issues and accountability in drug policy at the Human Rights Council and elsewhere; and returning to our advocacy linking human rights with the need for alternatives to prohibition, opposing the death penalty, …