War on Drugs

The Hood Incubator wants to reverse the effects of the war on drugs by helping black and Hispanic businesspeople enter the legal cannabis market.

Across the country, there's a growing movement for economic empowerment through legalization.

A criminal justice expert weighs in on a recent report to the United Nations outlining systemic racism in the U.S. criminal justice system.

It seems compassion is an effective drug deterrent. Too bad there wasn't any during the crack epidemic.

As the United States Justice Department plans to release about 6,000 non-violent drug offenders from federal prison, we talk with a researcher and former inmate about what should happen next.

The current push for bipartisan criminal justice reform is missing the mark with its single-minded focus on non-violent offenders.

Some argue that taking parents who have committed a crime out of the family might be good for children, but the data is in. It’s not.

Matt Bowden (sometimes known as Starboy, an "interdimensional traveler") helped create one of the most viral outbreaks of new drugs in history. He might also have the antidote.

The proliferation of risky police raids over the decades.

With the advent of marijuana legalization, alternatives to incarceration, harm reduction as treatment, and other rational approaches to addiction, 2014 could be an unprecedented turning point.

Expanding on the Situational Crime Prevention theory that making crimes harder or less appealing to commit will make them less likely to occur, two criminologists make the case for "providing opportunities" for would-be criminals to commit their acts legally and safely.

A new report from The Sentencing Project assesses the damage of a Clinton-era policy.

Eric Holder’s plan to reduce mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders is met with praise, and supported by the facts.

As Obama and the U.S. drug czar roll out their 2013 plan, here’s a look at what’s in it, and what they’ve done so far.