A six-member conference committee reached a unanimous agreement last week to adopt the Senate’s version of the bill. The ...

The Chronicle may have had a respite, but law enforcement corruption related to drug prohibition took no break. In Charleston, South Carolina, a former Charleston County Sheriff's detention deputy was ...

In a bit of good news for the beleaguered hemp cannabinoid sector, the White House on Wednesday called on Congress to ...

A study released Monday finds that marijuana is now the nation's biggest cash crop, with the value of the annual harvest exceeding that of corn, soybeans or hay -- the country's top three legal cash ...

As the month of June came to an end, so did the term in office of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, notorious for presiding over a bloody and still-continuing "war on drugs" that has left more ...

Drugs are an issue which – like migration, social liberalization and economic tensions – has the capacity to shatter democratic and human rights norms. Perhaps no other extreme drug policy today does ...

Last month Phil wrote about the administration designating Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups, and the possibility that could be a prelude to staging military attacks inside Mexico. Last week, ...

Update: The Chamber did indeed rule in favor of jurisdiction. Duterte's trial is scheduled to begin on November 30, 2026. This is a consequential time in so many ways. One is that tomorrow morning ...

StoptheDrugWar.org commends the arrest by Philippine authorities this morning of former President Rodrigo Duterte, under an International Criminal Court warrant served by Interpol. During his ...

One of the world's top criminals was elected President of the United States last week. As numerous former Trump staffers and more than 1,000 national security leaders have warned, grave dangers lie ...

This piece was written for Drug War Chronicle by criminal justice reporter Clarence Walker, [email protected]. What happens if an unsuspecting citizen finds a police-installed GPS tracking device ...

A new report from Human Rights Watch and the Drug Policy Alliance lifts the lid on some sordid practices in America's intertwined wars on drugs and immigrants. Paul Pierrulus was born into a Haitian ...