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This Australian politician says pill testing could prevent deaths at music festivals

Pill testing would allow people at festivals, who plan to take MDMA or ecstasy, to test the pills for things like harmful chemicals, or dosage, first.

Close up of cannabis plants seen in a greenhouse at the headquarters of AGES agency in Vienna, Austria.

Thailand approves medical pot in small step away from US-backed drug war

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an overdose naloxone kit in a woman's hands

In Vancouver, people who use drugs are supervising injections and reversing overdoses

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Medical marijuana legalized in Peru

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Holder, citing prison overcrowding, overrides some mandatory minimum sentences

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Attorney General Eric Holder: Change Could Be Coming to U.S. Drug Laws

Today Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce some substantial changes in how low-level drug offenders are prosecuted, overriding pre-existing federal laws that impose mandatory minimum sentences for drug-related offenses. The Justice Department will offer drug treatment programs for low-level offenders instead of jail time and early release for some current elderly inmates who […]

Will Holder’s New Policy on Drug Sentences Transform Criminal Justice?

For nearly 30 years, being “tough on crime” was been part and parcel of successful political campaigns, and in the mid-1980s, Congress began enacting mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses. After that the prison population exploded and some experts shook their heads at what they considered to be misguided drug policy. But as Attorney General […]

In Uruguay, raft of political changes defy political labels

Global Politics

Uruguay’s new left-wing government has introduced a host of new laws, regarding marijuana, abortion and same-sex marriage. They’re hot topics of discussion and, surprisingly, often the reactions people have defy political labels.

Researcher urges U.S. officials to rethink drug policy

Global Politics

Increased incarceration rates in communities with high unemployment and poverty has some researchers questioning the drug policy in the United States. They’re suggesting the drug problem is actually an outgrowth of U.S. drug policy — which needs to be changed.

Dutch drug tourism

The Dutch have liberal drug laws, but some local officials are fed up with foreigners who invade their towns looking for drugs.