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Releasing gang members and other prisoners from California jails has created a problem for Las Vegas as it appears that these gangbangers and other common criminals are now moving into there to set up shop. This has also resulted in a rise.

The United States relies more heavily on imprisonment than any country in the world, with the War on Drugs the major driving force behind high incarceration rates.  While common perception paints young men as the greatest victims of the drug war, conspiracy.

A 22 year old male who had been stabbed, had his legs bound, throat slashed, little finger cut and several finger nails removed had been left for dead in March 2016 at a house fire in central Las Vegas, say metro police..

The sounds emanating from the U.S. Attorneys Office in Pittsburgh this week were more nails being pounded into the coffin of the Cyril Wecht prosecution. No doubt realizing that the efforts of the last two years in the office were going down.

Everybody makes mistakes, but some people pay for mistakes far more severely than others. The tightrope walker who stumbles and falls into a net might wrench her back. The tightrope walker without a net risks dying. In the realm of medicine, pain.

In November of 2012, Edwin Clark was walking with his 8-month pregnant girlfriend across an apartment complex to buy a TV. Suddenly they were ambushed by two gunmen who opened fire.  Clark died in the parking lot of Siema Town homes near.

The fact that a mom had been arrested on marijuana charges, had previously had a boyfriend who allegedly sold crack cocaine and marijuana out of her house, and was now living at a shelter did not establish a "substantial risk of detriment".

“God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next,” says the old country song. For a couple in Las Vegas, “next” was jail. The man involved in the daylight attraction was killed.

Originally posted on Drug Law Blog by attorney Alex Coolman Jonthan Caulkins has a post up at Cato Unbound today responding to the essay on responsible psychoactive use I noted yesterday. It's a defense of the status quo around drug law, but.

Originally posted on Drug Law Blog by attorney Alex Coolman Pete on Drug WarRant mentioned something the other day that I, too, keep running up against as I follow reporting on drug issues: the tendency of reporters to turn every piece about.