Drug War

Using CBD products is now a crime in the military. The overarching ban removes some of the complications CBD and hemp usage introduces into the military's drug-testing system.

Talking about "abolishing" or "defunding'' the police simply delays making the difficult decisions that have to be made about the Drug War, and especially marijuana prohibition, and the other ways that the police have simply had all of society's problems dumped on them.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rejected Trump's call for conflict with the cartels after the violent attack near the U.S. border.

Three mothers and several children, including a baby, have been shot and killed by members of a Chihuahua cartel, say the women's family members.

"He still has capability and resources while his kids run his business for him," Derek Maltz, former Special Operations head of the Drug Enforcement Agency, told Newsweek.

Murders in Mexico by warring cartels reached a record high last year.

National Security Commissioner Renato Sales said the plan was "to recover peace and calm for all Mexicans."

"You bullshit. We are past the colonization stage. Don't fuck with us," he said.

Researchers have mapped the drug war's trail of death.

The capture of El Chapo in January 2016 created a power vacuum that is being violently disputed between different cartels.

The murder rate in Baja California Sur has surged in the past three years.

The government's fight against criminal cartels accounted for 23,000 deaths in 2016.

The Philippines is currently involved in a maritime dispute with China over its interests in the South China Sea, although Duterte is attempting to forge closer ties with the country.

The Homeland Security secretary says heroin, cocaine and meth are bigger problems.

The New York Times article, written by Richard C. Paddock, touched on Duterte's childhood.

Young children could face adult charges and even the death penalty.

Sermons in churches throughout the country target the extrajudicial killings as part of the war on drugs.

More than 7,000 people have been killed since Duterte initiated the crackdown last summer.

He recently opined that "good people don't smoke marijuana."

"Duterte wants to make an example of me so that nobody will speak out," says Leila de Lima.

The Philippines has recorded about 1,800 drug-related killings since President Rodrigo Duterte took office seven weeks ago.

Peru is virtually tied with neighboring Colombia as the world's top cocaine producer.

In Mexico's northern states, life expectancy fell by as much as three years.

Canada, Ireland and Mexico are moving closer to legalizing marijuana.

The pontiff should recognize that drug prohibition has proved to be a cure far worse than the disease.

None of the scenarios touted by opponents—rampant increases in drug use by the young; Lisbon becoming a "drug tourist" haven—has occurred.

In two novels spanning four decades, Don Winslow goes deep on the real-world conflict consuming Mexico.

Freddie Gray's death was an inevitable consequence of decades of brutal police methods used to wage "The Drug War."

The 49-year-old former teacher is wanted for the 2009 murder of 12 Mexican federal police officers.

Scientists and scholars discussed experiments with psychedelics drugs to treat anxiety, depression, addiction and other issues at a recent conference in New York City.