- Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail—"How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists. And got away with it."
- Our Right to Poison: Lessons from the Failed War on Drugs
- Analysis: Losing the War on Drugs
- Why We Took Cocaine Out of Soda
- Should federal ban on hemp production be lifted?
- Drug-Dog Alerts Are 'Up to Snuff,' Supreme Court Says
- Where Does a Cop With an 80-Pound Dog Search? Anywhere he wants.
- 'Marijuana cannon' used to fire drugs over US border seized in Mexico
- Drug overdose deaths up for 11th consecutive year—"Drug overdose deaths rose for the 11th straight year, federal data show, and most of them were accidents involving addictive painkillers despite growing attention to risks from these medicines."
- Regulate antibiotics not recreational drugs, ethicist argues
- Florida Welfare Drug Testing Law Gets No Reprieve From Appeals Court
- Georgia Drug-Testing Scheme Nabs Just One Person
- Indiana House okays drug testing of welfare recipients
- Kansas Democrats force amendment to include lawmakers in welfare drug tests
- Maine Democrat submits bill to drug-test welfare recipients
- Marijuana Legalization May Be Unstoppable
- Meet the quarterback of the new anti-drug movement—"Kevin Sabet was a drug control adviser to three presidents and is now marshaling the counterrevolution." Salon
- Illegal drugs: The great experiment—"At last, drug prohibition is being challenged by fresh thinking."
- Obama drug czar: We will go after marijuana distributors in Wash. and Colo.
- Californians Back Pot Legalization 54% to 43%
- Hawaii Marijuana Legalization Bill dies in state House
- Judge rules against Oakland in medical marijuana lawsuit—"A U.S. magistrate judge... sided with federal prosecutors in dismissing a lawsuit by the city of Oakland that challenged as illegal federal attempts to shutter the nation’s largest medical marijuana dispensary."
- Marijuana program brings $10-million windfall for Michigan government, report says
- Caltech Physicist: If All Science Were Run Like Marijuana Research, Creationists Would Control Paleontology
- A Group of Drug War Profiteers Are Asking Eric Holder to Stop Legal Pot in Colorado and Washington
- Woman pulled over after Ohio State sticker confused for drug symbol
- Bloomberg seeks to halt pot jail time
- Czech Republic Legalizes Medical Marijuana Use
- Policeman: I was fired for reporting officers who threatened Obama Salon
- Ken Burns wins legal battle against NYC over "Central Park Five"—"The documentary filmmaker hails it as a triumph for investigative journalism." Salon
- Autopsy finds that Md. man with Down syndrome died of asphyxia while in police custody
- Utah trooper accused of making bogus DUI arrests
- Salt Lake City police discipline detective for raid on wrong house—"The Salt Lake City police detective responsible for a SWAT team ramming the door of a wrong house last year and pointing guns at the elderly woman inside also misled the judge who issued the search warrant, according to documents released by the city,:
- Towns to pay $3.5M in deadly cop raid—"Five years ago, a heavily armed special weapons and tactics team charged into a small ranch home in Easton -- guns drawn and flash grenades exploding -- and killed a Norwalk man who was quietly watching porn on TV in the den."
- No charges for homeless man stunned by Rock Hill police—"To tase a 62-year-old, hundred-pound homeless guy is just outrageous."
- Mr. Obama, Tear Down the Private Profit Prisons
- Republicans With Influence On Immigration Debate Are Top Recipients Of Private Prison Contributions
- Jailing immigrants for minor crimes is a big business in America
- Florida Atlantic Football Stadium Will Be Named For Private Prison Company
- Cover Ups, Corruption and Death: What Private Prison Co. Doesn't Want You to Know about Its Stadium Sponsorship
- Long Prison Terms Eyed as Contributing to Poverty NYT
- US: A nation of inmates?—"We examine the impact of America's high incarceration rate on its penal system and on poor and minority communities."
- Justice Details 'History Of Abusive Behavior' At Wisconsin Supreme Court—"In a document issued Wednesday, in which she recused herself from the judicial misconduct case brought against Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser as a result of the altercation, Justice Ann Walsh Bradley offered details about what she called 'a history of abusive behavior in our workplace that has escalated from tantrums and rages, to threats, and now to physical contact.'"
- Judge discards video evidence of Philadelphia cop sucker punching Puerto Rican woman
- Russian judge fired after falling asleep in court, then giving defendant a 5-year sentence
- Judge who shoved deputy found not guilty by reason of insanity—"The insanity verdict could aid the judge's effort to return to the bench."
- FedEx Corporation : CEO in fraud case needs more than seven days prison: court—"A former chief executive who pleaded guilty to wrongdoing in a scheme that ultimately helped drive his company into bankruptcy could have been sent to prison for 10 years. The trial judge thought seven days was fair." WTF?
- Feud over sign could force Fairfax's Olde Belhaven to sell square—"The feud that consumed Fairfax County's Olde Belhaven would span four years and cost the community as much as $400,000, and it was ignited by one of the smallest of sparks: an Obama for President sign."
- Judge: Parking restrictions "unreasonable"
- Blast from the Past: Neighbors pull plug on injured vet's home—"An Evans neighborhood association has blocked a group that was prepared to build a home free of charge for a local veteran who was injured in Afghanistan."
