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Drug War Chronicle #690 - June 30, 2011

Phillip S. Smith, Editor - David Borden, Executive Director
Fake pot goes under many brand names. Spice is one. (image via wikimedia.org)
Fake pot goes under many brand names. Spice is one. (image via wikimedia.org)

More States Go After Synthetic Drugs

When confronted with new intoxicating substances, legislators' prohibitionist reflexes kick in. Just ask fake pot and "bath salts" users.
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Cash and guns Mexico_11.jpg

Mexico Drug War Update

Mexico's president feels "misunderstood" about his bloody drug war, but the killings continue despite his hurt feelings.
lime powder container (used traditionally in coca chewing), 1st-7th-century, Colombia (Quimbaya), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
lime powder container (used traditionally in coca chewing), 1st-7th-century, Colombia (Quimbaya), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

Bolivia to Quit United Nations Drug Convention Over Coca

We may be about to see the first defection from the legal backbone of global drug prohibition, the 1961 UN Convention on Single Drugs. Bolivia is ready to dump it, at least temporarily, over its classification of coca as an illicit drug.
Dakta Green jailed in New Zealand for the herb. (daktagrower.blogspot.com)
Dakta Green jailed in New Zealand for the herb. (daktagrower.blogspot.com)

Dakta Green Jailed for New Zealand Cannabis Club

New Zealand's marijuana reform community has seen one of its leading lights jailed for eight months, but that never stopped Dakta Green before.
marijuana fields just before they are burned (image via wikimedia.org)
marijuana fields just before they are burned (image via wikimedia.org)

Lebanese Police Destroying Marijuana Fields Attacked

The Lebanese police's annual marijuana eradication campaign in the Bekaa Valley got off with a bang Monday, as police were attacked at least twice.
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Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.
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