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Oregon Makes the Case for Decriminalizing Hard Drugs Dec. 10, 2020
In the aftermath of the November election, public attention focused on the sudden termination of Don... Read More
Breonna Taylor and the Moral Bankruptcy of Drug Prohibition: She Would Still Be Alive If Politicians Did Not Insist on Using Violence to Enforce Their Pharmacological Prejudices Jun. 24, 2020
Last Friday, three months after Louisville, Kentucky, police officers gunned down a 26-year-old EMT ... Read More
I'm a Drug War Success May. 06, 2019
If you add all the Americans who take Xanax to all the Americans who drink beer, and all the America... Read More
Cruel and Stupid May. 17, 2017
President Trump's attorney general, Jeff Sessions, ordered federal prosecutors to seek maximum penal... Read More
Opioid Deaths: Another Drug War Failure Mar. 19, 2017
Illicit drug use is an old phenomenon, and Jeff Sessions has an old solution: take off the gloves. "... Read More
Law and Border Sep. 16, 2015
How many wars can we fight? Our presidential candidates demand "stronger action" against both illeg... Read More
Bad Policies Are Their Own Worst Enemy Jul. 31, 2014
Newspaper editorials rarely make news — I've been writing them for a long time, and, believe m... Read More
What Scares Americans About the Child Migrants Jul. 29, 2014
The numbers are small for a large country like this, but the alarm is big over the influx of Central... Read More
Stop the Fear Mongering Jul. 25, 2014
The good news at the U.S. border with Mexico is that the flood of children from Central America cros... Read More
Drug War Refugees: Thousands of Central American Children Are Fleeing Prohibition-Related Violence Jul. 23, 2014
As thousands of children fleeing violence in Central America seek refuge in the United States, some ... Read More
Obama Finds His Clemency Pen Apr. 30, 2014
As an Illinois legislator, a U.S. senator and a presidential candidate, Barack Obama repeatedly crit... Read More
Is Marijuana Legalization Illegal? Mar. 05, 2014
Raymond Yans is president of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the U.N. agency charg... Read More
Recovering from a Punitive Panic Feb. 05, 2014
When he was 26, Douglas Ray Dunkins Jr. received a mandatory sentence of life without parole for par... Read More
Let 50 Cannabis Flowers Bloom Jan. 29, 2014
President Obama says he opposes marijuana legalization but thinks Colorado and Washington should be ... Read More
Reality Intrudes on the Drug War Sep. 01, 2012
Editor's Note: Steve Chapman is on vacation. The following column was originally published in Februa... Read More
