Legalization

A researcher who compared the Netherlands' marijuana use with that of other European countries and the U.S. finds the Dutch regime of tolerated small sales of cannabis does not lead to a drug free-for-all.

When the United States starts talking about illicit drugs, why does the word "war" always makes its way into the conversation?

The Netherlands' netherworld of tolerated-but-still-illegal marijuana has its homegrown critics who argue for outright prohibition or outright legalization.

If pot were legal — not decriminalized, but legal — it likely would knock a few props from beneath rampaging Mexican drugs cartels, argues Michael Scott Moore.

Portugal’s example suggests that de-escalating the war on drugs might create a new sort of peace dividend.

European governments have taken two divergent paths in dealing with the resurrected flow of narcotics from Afghanistan, legalization and an American-style war on drugs.

While a legalized marijuana crop wouldn’t solve all of California’s agricultural woes, it might still keep the state in the green.