News of Drug Laws

Russ Jones, who has spent more than 30 years fighting the War On Drugs, has something to say about his life's work: it is a complete failure that should be ended.

"The U.S. over the last four decades has spent $1 trillion of our tax dollars, made 38 million nonviolent drug arrests and quadrupled our prison population," Jones said, reports columnist Tom Barnidge of the Contra Costa Times. "And the rate of addiction today, 1.3 ...

I currently live in the state of New Jersey, a few miles from the state of New York. If an 18 year old kid gets caught with the possession of Marijuana on his person, he is tried as a lawbreaker. Then that kid has a black mark on him for the rest of his life. Meanwhile, a kid in New York does not get the same black mark placed upon him. Marijuana possession is the ...

If you have borrowed a car, was stopped and searched, and they found a fairly large quantity of cocaine (no, it wasn't ours)
is there a mandatory maximum of prison time, where you can't even plead it for probation or whatever - the judge and D.A. have no choice but to sentence you to time in jail? Please - there are children involved here, so please, please only answer if you know for sure, or ...

Any places I could call? I just need some information on punishment by law for possession of drugs and what not..

Some of the attributes and hopeful benefits for the law would be

License is like a gun license or automobile license

In order to maintain license
a person has to keep a certain grade point average, and, or place of upstanding status in the community; a person also has to hold a job for more than 6 months. A person will have mandatory background check, and mental evaluation for license.

A person must earn minimum ...

Will Obama give marijuana to his children when they have a sore throat like Californians do?

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/survey_shows_1_in_140_nj_adult.html
http://wehonews.com/z/wehonews/archive/page.php?articleID=3211

I am researching into the drug and alcohol laws in each of the states and I cannot find any sites detailing the law on drugs in Alabama? Can anyone direct me to a site with up to date drug laws on or anyone from Alabama tell me any details? I don't want to be told they're illegal I know that, I need the actual details of the law. Thanks in advance

What is wrong with the United States? Did they not learn anything from alcohol prohibition in the 1930s?

It would seem they either need to stop consuming illegal drugs (which doesn't appear like it will ever happen considering drugs have been around thousands of years) or they need to do a comprehensive overhaul of their drug laws (so they can stop wasting man power, time and resources busting people like Willie Nelson).

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101127/ap_on_re_us/us_nelson_marijuana

SIERRA BLANCA, ...

so that the drug trafficants can't deal weed anymore, and so that everything can be regulated and under control of the government?
And also in order to fight crime and violence? ( especially in certain countries such as France, UK and Spain, where there are a lot of thugs in urban areas).

What's your opinion?

Hi, my roommate just got caught up in a drug charge with his friend in Las Vegas, Nevada. They apparently had 7 lbs of marijuana in their luggage and got arrested. It's his first offense and they are charging him with intent to sell. I did some research for them and did find out a bit about Nevada laws. According to one site, they could get probation or a suspended sentence... or up to 4 ...