International Commission: Decriminalize Drugs Everywhere

The global War on Drugs has been a long, sustained, incredibly expensive and destructive failure. A major new report from the Global Commission on Drug Policy says: it's time to give it up.

The global War on Drugs has been a long, sustained, incredibly expensive and destructive failure. A major new report from the Global Commission on Drug Policy says: it's time to give it up.
A Fashion Institute of Technology student "arrived at her dorm in Manhattan, opened her suitcase — and discovered 10 pounds of cocaine inside." She will be a success.
A 43-year-old Venezuelan woman was apprehended at Madrid International Airport with 3.7 pounds of cocaine in her breast implants. Authorities noticed her suspicious behavior during a routine screening of passengers returning from Bogota, Colombia.
A Miami Beach cop, fired last year when his random drug test came back positive for cocaine, has been reinstated. He claimed he'd never done coke, and the test result had been caused by a cream he rubbed on his genitals.
Spanish law enforcement officials are reporting that they have arrested Hernan Alonso Villa, the alleged leader of a Colombian cocaine cartel. Villa was apprehended while driving along the coast of Spain in Alicante on Friday, police say.
George Jung, the notorious "cocaine cowboy" portrayed by Johnny Depp in Blow, has been released from prison after serving 20 years.
Today, The Atlantic has published a long story by Roy Klabin in which Klabin writes about shadowing several drug dealers as they do business. But some of the numbers in his story do not seem to add up.
Pope Francis, coolest pope, has not made a statement regarding a package of cocaine that was intercepted by German authorities in January, but the all-white getup is starting to make some sense.
An extremely drunk driver utterly failed in his efforts to make some New York City cops an offer they couldn't refuse.
She was roundly mocked online after telling a state trooper that two "bricks" in the back of her car contained homemade soap not cocaine, but it was no laughing matter for Annadel Cruz and her companion Alexander Bernstein who spent the past month in jail despite telling the truth.
In a plot stolen straight out of "Hannibal", Italian police are saying that Calabrian mobsters recently murdered a mafia don by beating the man with a spade and then throwing him into a sty, where he was eaten alive by pigs.
Florida congressman and cocaine-fueled hypocrite Trey Radel announced Wednesday night that he will take a leave of absence from his job—during which time he will donate his salary—in order to enter an inpatient drug treatment center. He will not resign from his position.
Border officials at Montreal's Trudeau International Airport had themselves a particularly happy Halloween after busting a passenger with four-and-a-half pounds of cocaine stuffed inside three pumpkins.
James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond, a hip hop promotor and major cocaine distributor suspected of having a hand in multiple rap controversies including the 1994 Tupac shooting, was sentenced to life in prison yesterday.
Researchers at Connecticut College have found evidence that proves that Oreo cookies—at least for lab rats—are as addictive as cocaine.