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School Drug Testing Has Little Impact, Dept. of Education Finds
A US Department of Education research report released Wednesday suggests that mandatory random drug testing of high school students has a small positive impact in reducing past-month drug use, but has...
View ArticleDespite Pot Prohibition, Teen Marijuana Use Continues Slight Upward Trend
Marijuana use by 8th, 10th, and 12th graders increased slightly this year, according to figures released Tuesday by the annual Monitoring the Future survey of junior and senior high school students....
View ArticleTeen's Medical Marijuana Fight Escalates As School Says He Cannot Come Back...
The saga of a Colorado Springs, Colorado teenager struggling with a rare neurological condition best controlled with medical marijuana lozenges became a little more surreal when school officials...
View ArticleMedical Marijuana Using High School Student Back in Class After Apology from...
A high school student kept off campus for using medical marijuana has received an apology from the district's lawyer and is back in school. The student has a rare disease called Myoclonus...
View ArticlePA School Districts Sued Over Student Drug Testing
The ACLU and a Philadelphia law firm are suing two Pennsylvania school districts for maintaining random drug and alcohol testing of students who participate in extracurricular activities or who drive...
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Chronicle Book Review: BONG HiTS 4 JESUS
BONG HiTS 4 JESUS: A Perfect Constitutional Storm in Alaska's Capital by James Foster (2011, University of Alaska Press, 373 pp., $29.95 PB) In January 2002, as Olympic torchbearers making their way to...
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Mexico Drug War Update
by Bernd Debusmann Jr. Mexican drug trafficking organizations make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the prohibitionist drug policies of the US...
View ArticleTeens Rejecting Alcohol, Tobacco; Selecting Marijuana [FEATURE]
The annual Monitoring the Future survey of substance use by eighth, 10th, and 12th graders was released Wednesday, and it shows students are drinking and smoking tobacco at historically low levels, but...
View ArticleSchoolgirl Sues Pennsylvania District Over Drug Tests
An 11-year-old girl, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia law firm Dechert LLP have filed suit against a Lancaster County school district over its policy requiring random drug tests of...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- January 14, 2014
Lots of activity on the marijuana and medical marijuana fronts today, and an academic study casts doubt on the utility of student drug testing. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:left]Marijuana PolicyDC...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- January 31, 2014
The president makes some delphic comments on marijuana policy, some of his congressional critics get ready to go after him for such comments next week, Dutch cities want legal marijuana growing, the...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- June 10, 2014
New York City residents are still getting arrested for marijuana at the rate of 80 a day, New York state residents face another year without medical marijuana passing, Philly heads for...
View ArticleAnnual Study Finds Legalization Hasn't Increased Teen Use [FEATURE]
The article was written in collaboration with AlterNet and first appeared here.The University of Michigan's annual Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey of teen drug use was released today and shows that...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Michiganders Say Legalize, Kansas MedMj Mom Sues Over Son's...
Popular sentiment favors marijuana legalization in Michigan, Denver activists plan an initiative to approve cannabis social clubs, Florida's CBD cannabis oil law gets expanded, and more.[image:1...
View ArticleEight Things That Do (or Don't) Happen When We Legalize Marijuana [FEATURE]
The great social experiment that is marijuana legalization is now five years old, with six states already allowing legal marijuana sales, two more where legal sales will begin within months, and yet...
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