From 1920 to 1933, the drug known as alcohol was outlawed, and Americans were prohibited from manufacturing, transporting or selling that particular drug. And when our leaders repealed that ...

When the celebrated Iranian artist Khosrow Hassanzadeh died of methanol poisoning this month, everyone but his country’s most ardent theocrats recognized that prohibition was the problem. Yet when the ...

UNODC is continuously monitoring and researching global illicit drug markets in order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of their dynamics. Drug trafficking is a key part of this research.

If you remember headlines about angel dust and crack, you know that drug panics are nothing new. From time to time an intoxicating drug is rediscovered or newly synthesized, or old ones are consumed ...

Although it’s been around for nearly 40 years, the “Iron Law of Prohibition” is as popular as ever. For the uninitiated, the concept holds that “as law enforcement becomes more intense, the potency of ...

EARLIER THIS WEEK, ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC Holder announced that the federal government would continue to prosecute marijuana-related crimes even if Proposition 19, a California ballot proposition for ...