Prosecutors say the men sold crack, heroin and fentanyl in the lobbies and stairwells of the Johnson Houses for years.

Pozen is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia University and the author of The Constitution of the War on Drugs. After decades of waging a ruinous and counterproductive war on drugs ...

WASHINGTON — Health officials want you to think twice before buying one of those brightly colored little bottles often sold at gas stations, convenience stores and smoke shops. Sometimes called “gas ...

The Uniform State Narcotic Law aligned state drug laws with federal law, first drafted in 1925 but adopted in 1932. Then-President Herbert Hoover signed it, fixing the loopholes in The Harrison ...

Elaine Bartlett was a 26-year-old mother of four living in East Harlem when she was sentenced to 20-to-life for selling four ounces of cocaine to an informant. It was her first offense; the same ...

Two Democratic cities are rethinking the implementation of relaxed drug policies after a rise in accidental fatal overdoses of fentanyl has plagued the country. Philadelphia and San Francisco are both ...