Tag: oklahoma
Alumni Profile: Kaylee Burton, University of Oklahoma 2008-2010
A product of the early D.A.R.E. generation, I started college uninformed of drugs and drug policy. I was conditioned to believe that illegal substances would kill me and that drug prohibition didn’t cause more harm than the drugs themselves. Not long after starting college however, I started to question my beliefs and assumptions. I started to question what I had
Oklahoma: Life in Prison for Hash
You read that correctly. The Oklahoma legislature just passed a bill that would make manufacturing hash a felony punishable by life in prison. Sadly, the bill met little to no opposition and is now awaiting the signature of Governor Mary Falin: The measure sailed through the Senate with little debate, passing on a vote of 44-2. The House also approved the measure
Drug War Injustice
The drug war continues to wreak havoc on the lives of U.S. citizens. It continues to wreak havoc on the lives of non-U.S. citizens, too. But we just heard of this case of an Oklahoma woman being sent to prison for a decade for dealing marijuana in front of her children; the grandmother has received a non-custodial sentence, but still
