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15 Feb 2012, 8:13 pm
In November, Art Way, manager of the Drug Policy Alliance's Colorado branch, previewed a Good Samaritan bill intended to prevent those who call 911 when a friend is overdosing from being arrested for doing so. [read post]
19 Aug 2016, 12:23 pm
The title of this post is the title of this new short report from the Drug Policy Alliance, which gets started this way: Short of legalization, California has some of the most permissive marijuana possession laws in the United States, yet law enforcement continues to arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate thousands... [read post]
13 Jul 2017, 7:20 am
Earlier this week, as reported in this press release, a new report focused on New York City was released "by the Marijuana Arrest Research Project, commissioned by the Drug Policy Alliance, [which] shows that marijuana possession arrests under Mayor de Blasio continue to be marked by extremely high racial disparities,... [read post]
15 Feb 2014, 12:48 pm
24 Oct 2010, 9:41 am
According to a recent article in L.A. now, the Drug Policy Alliance has issued a report concluding that blacks are arrested for marijuana possession at higher rate than whites in 25 California cities. [read post]
23 Jan 2018, 11:34 am
Alliance of California, No. 14-cv-04466-EJD (N.D. [read post]
22 Feb 2023, 10:01 am
“When you criminalize things, you create stigma around substances,” said Maritza Perez Medina, director of federal affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance. [read post]
6 Jun 2009, 2:42 am
To that extent, an enforcement only approach plays right into the hands of the smuggling gangs the policy hopes to undermine.As the Drug Policy Alliance lamented in a Washington Post story, there's nothing in the plan at all about demand reduction. [read post]
25 Oct 2010, 9:41 am
In fact, an alarming new report released report by the Drug Policy Alliance last week found from 2006 to 2008, police in 25 of California's major cities arrested blacks at four to 12 times the rate of whites. [read post]
21 Oct 2009, 8:00 am
Ethan Nadelmann, the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, has this new Politico commentary titled "Now, let's decriminalize marijuana. [read post]
12 Dec 2007, 1:02 am
One of the more interesting presentations I saw last week in New Orleans at the Drug Policy Alliance conference centered on implementing ground-level harm reduction strategies, a topic that interests me especially as Bexar County prepares to launch Texas' first legal needle exchange operation in San Antonio. [read post]
21 Apr 2023, 6:00 am
Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 9:01 am
The Drug Policy Alliance estimates that 10,000 people are in California prisons for drug possession. [read post]
23 Aug 2015, 3:49 pm
They consistently show that the National Alliance stands for principles and policies, as well as the means to implement them, that are both illegal and contrary to public policy in Canada. [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 7:50 am
A new briefing paper (pdf) from the Drug Policy Alliance hones in on Texas drug overdoses, pointing out that, "Between 1999 and 2007, overdose deaths increased by more than 250 percent. [read post]
27 Oct 2023, 5:22 am
“We’re in a drug crisis. [read post]
"An Overdose Death Is Not Murder: Why Drug-Induced Homicide Laws Are Counterproductive and Inhumane"
8 Nov 2017, 4:27 am
20 Apr 2021, 7:05 am
As detailed in this new Drug Policy Alliance press release, today "the Federal Cannabis Regulations Working Group released its Principles for Federal Cannabis Regulations & Reform," outlining what a federal regulatory framework — grounded in justice and social equity—should look like. [read post]
27 Aug 2019, 11:29 am
As a Fairfax Criminal Lawyer, I am honored to be joining such civil liberties fighters as Ira Glasser (Drug Policy Alliance president and past longtime ACLU exective director) and Billy Murphy, who is a great trial lawyer whose boundless devotion to criminal defendants has inspired me for over a quarter century. [read post]
6 Jan 2021, 8:10 am
The effort in Oregon, led by the Drug Policy Alliance and supported by the ACLU, was the most groundbreaking. [read post]
