Drug Policy Facts

This week a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers held a news conference on Capitol Hill to announce the formation of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus.

Interview with the artist Alex Lilly about his work and his current exhibition, World Conflagration

Teleconference discussing release of Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids from National Academies Press, Jan 12, 2017

President Barack Obama commutes the sentences of 46 federal prisoners who had been serving sentences for nonviolent drug offenses, plus we have an interview with Jamie Bridge from the International Drug Policy Consortium

We're back! This week we look at the release of the UN's World Drug Report for 2015.

This week: We begin our coverage of the annual meeting of the UN's Commission on Narcotic Drugs by speaking with Ross Bell, the director of the New Zealand Drug Foundation.

this week: marijuana becomes legal in the District of Columbia, and the Oregon legislature wrestles with how to regulate its adult-use marijuana program.

This week: We talk about marijuana, decrim, racially biased enforcement, harm reduction, prevention, treatment, and more with the director of the Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy, Kathie Kane-Willis.

This week we listen to portions of a House subcommittee hearing on federal civil asset forfeiture policies and reform.

This week: We look at the states of Washington and Oregon as they move to implement their legal adult recreational marijuana programs.