5 Ways to Improve Media Coverage of Marijuana and Other Drug-Related Issues

NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—May 9, 2014.

By: Jag Davies

The ground has never been more fertile for a change to our nation’s failed drug policies. We are seeing a broader questioning of America’s drug policy that fills our prisons and empties our coffers, that severely punishes the use of certain drugs but tolerates, regulates, taxes and even subsidizes others.

In the late 1980s, media hysteria about drugs played a large part in the passage of draconian laws…