Posted on: Dec 5, 2011, Source: Drug War Chronicle
The DEA has moved hundreds of thousands of dollars in drug money across boarders, but high-risk anti-trafficking operations may not be as efficient as they aim to be.
Posted on: Nov 30, 2011, Source: Drug War Chronicle
Gov. Lincoln Chafee and Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire Wednesday called on the federal government to reschedule marijuana as a drug with accepted medical use.
Posted on: Nov 28, 2011, Source: Drug War Chronicle
Gingrich's position on the drug war is so extreme he wants to emulate Singapore, where corporal punishment for minor offenses and the death penalty for drugs are policy.
Posted on: Nov 22, 2011, Source: Drug War Chronicle
Obama granted pardons to five people, three with marijuana-related convictions, and commuted the sentence of a woman doing more than 20 years on a crack charge.
Posted on: Nov 11, 2011, Source: Drug War Chronicle
Experts discuss the status of medical marijuana; a Republican presidential candidate vows to free pot prisoners; and cops speak out against prohibition.
Posted on: Oct 24, 2011, Source: Drug War Chronicle
District Court Judge Mary Scriven called mandatory drug testing for welfare applicants a violation of the Fourth Amendment and temporarily blocked the new rule.
Posted on: Oct 17, 2011, Source: Drug War Chronicle
Feds support prosecutors' threats to attack the medical marijuana industry with over-the-top raids on licensed (and even not-for-profit) dispensaries in Colorado and California.
Posted on: Oct 8, 2011, Source: Drug War Chronicle
U.S. Attorneys in California have announced a campaign to target medical marijuana, suggesting the beginning of the end for the medical marijuana industry.
Posted on: Oct 7, 2011, Source: Drug War Chronicle
Montana's attorney general is the latest high-ranking political figure to blast the Obama administration for prohibiting medical marijuana users from being sold firearms.
Posted on: Sep 28, 2011, Source: Drug War Chronicle
The DOJ and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms are teaming up to deny medical marijuana users the the 2nd Amendment. For once, the NRA is nowhere to be found.
Posted on: Sep 28, 2011, Source: Drug War Chronicle
By the end of the year, the Czech Republic's Department of Health will submit to parliament an amended law removing marijuana from the list of banned prescription substances.
Posted on: Jul 29, 2010, Source: Drug War Chronicle
One of the most glaring injustices of the American drug war: the 100:1 disparity in sentencing between federal crack cocaine and federal powder cocaine offenders.
During his State of the Union address, President Bush announced a new $600 million drug treatment initiative -- but used it to promote his faith-based initiatives program.
Philip Smith interviews former Argentine Solicitor General Jamie Malamud-Goti about his involvement in the upcoming conference, 'Out from the Shadows: Ending Drug Prohibition in the 21st Century'.
Much to the dismay of the Bush Administration, The Canadian House of Commons recommended this week that Canada decriminalize the possession and cultivation of small amounts of cannabis, among other reform measures.
What could have been an extended wake for a drug reform movement badly chastened by the November 5 election results instead became an occasion for reinvigoration as activists gathered at Marijuna Policy Project's conference in Anaheim, CA.
Though Question 9, the Nevada marijuna decriminalization initiative, was defeated in last week's election, marijuana-related votes elsewhere were more encouraging.
In 'Addict in the Family: How to Cope With the Long Haul,' Australian physician and author Dr. Andrew Byrne speaks directly to the families and friends of heroin addicts, outlining an accessible approach to coping with addiction in the family.