A police union in Georgia are pushing back against legislation that would limit the use of no-knock raids, arguing that privacy rights don't trump public safety. Bou-Bou's Law, named for a 19-month-old boy badly injured when SWAT
For the first time on the West Coast, a federal border enforcement helicopter fired warning shots from the air at a boat en route to Catalina Island, bringing an apparent drug smuggling operation to a halt, authorities said Monday.
The drug trade is a great place to make money. It's not surprising police, who interact with the narco-world, decide to go crooked. Officers used the state's monopoly on violence to enrich themselves while persecuting others for the same crimes.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has halted a secret, nearly 15-year program that collected virtually all data on international calls between the United States and certain countries, according to documents and officials familiar with the matt
The trial of the alleged mastermind behind the world's biggest online drugs marketplace continued Wednesday with testimony from a Homeland Security agent who went undercover to bring down the site back in 2012.
Motorists in West Virginia will lose their right to drive if someone else drives their car while drunk. Jason F. Uhl's crime was riding in the passenger seat of his SUV while someone else was driving it under the influence of alcohol (DUI).
This week independent media and grassroots activists will descend upon New York City for the trial of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged founder of Silk Road, the darkweb bitcoin marketplace.
Ross Ulbricht is finally getting his day in court, 15 months after plainclothes FBI agents grabbed him in the science fiction section of a San Francisco library and accused him of running the billion-dollar online drug bazaar known as the Silk Road.
Senator Patrick Anderson's bill asks the state to develop a system that would block people arrested for drunk driving from purchasing alcohol during a time period to be determined by a judge.
After thirteen years of occupation by U.S. forces, Afghanistan set a record for growing opium poppies in 2014, according to data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Heroin is derived from the poppy.
Jury rights activist James Babb issued a press release Friday announcing a month-long jury nullification campaign in the area around the US courthouse in Manhattan to coincide with the Ulbricht trial. The protest will feature large phone kiosk advert
A drug task force video of an arrest differs markedly from the police reports written by the plainclothes detectives . The video -- available below -- begins with the final moments of a car chase between Timothy Whittle and
20 people spontaneously formed a "human shield" to protect a Florida man from police who wanted to arrest him for smoking marijuana. Police say they witnessed a man smoking what they smelled was marijuana.
For legal purposes becoming more commonly used over Cannabis oil, is Hemp oil which is being grown in Europe to have higher levels of CBD and with no THC. In 2001, the DEA issued a rule banning all import and cultivation of industrial grade hemp. In
Goldman and Kurtzman are now fighting Pennsylvania in court. They argue the state's seizure of more than 2,400 bottles of fine wine is unconstitutional and are seeking to force Pennsylvania to return the entire collection.
The Western Hemisphere has been subjected to Washington's war on drugs for more than forty years. Countless lives destroyed, billions of dollars wasted, civil liberties and human rights violated on a massive scale;
Charlie Shrem, the former Bitcoin Foundation Inc. executive who pleaded guilty to charges tied to the illicit online bazaar "Silk Road," was sentenced to two years in prison by a judge who rejected his bid to remain free and "change the world.
The War on Drugs is 100 years old today. It kills thousands of people, destroys untold number of lives, and wastes hundreds of billions of dollars every year. Prevents us from using 3 of the most miraculous plants on the planet,
Nebraska and Oklahoma challenged neighboring Colorado's recreational marijuana laws in the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday amid complaints its pot was seeping across their borders, and Colorado vowed to defend its laws.
Marijuana is legal in the state of Washington, but that little inconvenience won't stop politicians from throwing people in jail for breaking the state's marijuana distribution regulations.
The conspiracy detailed in the indictment is a rather twisted tale of a sex-crazed judge, meth-using mother of four, treacherous friends, and corrupt cops.
This raid was little more than state sanctioned murder carried out in the name of the government's immoral and negligent war on drugs. What's more is the fact that this murder was initiated because of overzealous and criminally incompetent police
Quietly and with very little controversy or fanfare, the federal government just declared a strange sort of armistice this weekend in its ongoing war on marijuana producers, sellers, and users.
Quietly and with very little controversy or fanfare, the federal government just declared a strange sort of armistice this weekend in its ongoing war on marijuana producers, sellers, and users.