War on Drugs

AYR Wellness (OTC:AYRWF) is furthering its commitment to social equity and restorative justice with the launch of a Cannabis Expungement and Record Sealing clinic in Fort Myers, Florida, on Saturday December 14, 2024.  The clinic, which is being held in partnership with Blaze Responsibly, provides...

The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk issued a call for the international community to abandon punitive drug policies, declaring that the global war on drugs has failed. "The evidence is clear. The so-called War on Drugs has failed, completely and utterly. And...

Since 2015, U.S. taxpayers have allocated nearly $13 billion to international “counternarcotics” activities, including law enforcement, military support and punitive drug policies.  According to a report by Harm Reduction International (HRI) and the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), this...

When the Drug Enforcement Administration marked its 50th anniversary last year, it had spent over $1 trillion partly to enforce Richard Nixon's 1970 Controlled Substances Act, the cornerstone of his War on Drugs, which is widely viewed as a failure. Now, doesn't this sound like the type of...

Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich hailed the capture of a "criminal" allegedly smuggling over two kilograms of cocaine in talcum powder containers. According to La Nación, the detainee, 42-year-old Maximiliano Acosta from Mar del Plata, was stopped by Argentina's Gendarmería, a...

“We've seen this movie before,” Al Harrington says in an exclusive interview with Benzinga Cannabis, displaying the conviction of someone who's lived through the consequences of history. The former NBA player turned cannabis entrepreneur knows all too well how power structures have...

As if adulterating drugs with fentanyl were not enough, an industrial chemical known as bis (2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidyl) sebacate, or BTMPS, is now appearing in illicit fentanyl across the U.S. Originally used in plastics for UV protection, BTMPS has been detected in fentanyl samples marking...

In an increasingly digital age, where each click and search reflects the pulse of worldwide concerns, Semrush (NYSE:SEMR)’s second Annual Global Issues Index emerges as a critical barometer for understanding societal priorities. In this year’s index, published Thursday, mental health...

Two years after launching the War on Drugs, calling substance use “public enemy No. 1,” President Richard Nixon privately acknowledged marijuana was "not particularly dangerous." The admission came during a March 1973 Oval Office meeting with aides and was captured on Nixon’s...

Cannabis tech platform Dutchie and Last Prisoner Project (LPP) announced Tuesday that they’d reached their goal of $2 million in donations. Dutchie has been coordinating donations to LPP from dispensary partners and cannabis consumers over the past two years, putting a call to action on all...

Norway, often hailed as a paragon of liberal democracy, faces a contradiction between its progressive image and the government’s stance on drug users. Recent comments from Emilie Enger Mehl, the Minister of Justice and Public Security vividly illustrate this paradox, raising questions about...

United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Tlaleng Mofokeng, presented her fourth independent report to the UN’s Human Rights Council on Monday in which she issued a plea to global nations to abandon the war on drugs and adopt harm-reduction strategies. The report...

Presidents' Day, initially meant to honor George Washington, now celebrates all U.S. Presidents and their historical impact.  From the hemp fields of the founding fathers like George Washington, who utilized it for practical purposes at Mount Vernon, to the modern-day discussions...

Researchers funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) developed innovative, cost-effective forensic methods to measure the exact amount of THC present in a cannabis sample, aiming to accurately differentiate hemp from marijuana. Expensive Precision For A Costly And Outdated War The...

The Drug Enforcement Administration’s recent Throwback Thursday (TBT) post on Twitter, now known as X, happened to fall on the first day of Black History Month. But that did not stop the agency from proudly touting its failed war on drugs, which a former presidential...