Sadly we report on the premature death of our beloved co-founder, Kevin B. Zeese. Kevin passed away on Sept. 5, 2020.

Kevin was one of the nation's foremost authorities on drug policy issues. He worked on a wide array of drug related issues since he graduated from George Washington University Law School in 1980.

The New York Times has recently published editorials calling for an end to cannabis prohibition and for the legalization of marijuana. The Sunday, July 27th, 2014 editorial titled "Repeal Prohibition, Again" was part of a series titled "High Time: An Editorial Series on Marijuana Legalization." The first of the editorials and links to the rest of the series can be found at http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/27/opinion/sunday/high-time-….

Common Sense for Drug Policy's Chairman, Mike Gray, has passed away. The board and staff extend their deepest sympathies to his family. The movement has lost a leader, and we have lost a very good friend.

The following obituary is from Mike's website, http://www.mike-gray.org.

Like several other Hollywood realists, Mike Gray came from a documentary film background. His Chicago-Based Film Group chronicled the political violence of the 1960's, including the award-winning feature documentaries, AMERICAN REVOLUTION II, and THE MURDER OF FRED HAMPTON.

We are sad to report that the co-founder and President of Common Sense for Drug Policy, Kevin B. Zeese, passed away on September Fifth, 2020. He is sorely missed.

Kevin was one of the nation's foremost authorities on drug policy issues. He worked on a wide array of drug related issues since he graduated from George Washington University Law School in 1980.

In 2015 there were 1,488,707 arrests for drug law violations out of a total 10,797,088 arrests nationwide for all offenses.

The FBI has released its new Uniform Crime Report for 2015, the annual statistical report on crime in the US. According to the UCR, police made a total of 10,797,088 arrests for all offenses in 2015, a significant drop from the previous year's total of 11,205,833, and a huge decline from twenty years previously in the mid-1990s, when total arrests topped the fifteen million mark.