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Drug War Chronicle #922 - March 29, 2016

Phillip S. Smith, Editor - David Borden, Executive Director
Dear Drug War Chronicle reader:
 
Please accept my apology for the absence of Chronicle emails from your inbox these past few weeks. My time has been consumed with our work on global drug policy reform, as next month's "UN General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem" (UNGASS) approaches. You can read something about what we've been doing in a news article here. Some important work like the Chronicle email editions unfortunately slipped through the cracks amidst the press of things.
 
Please note that Chronicle articles are published straight to our web site on most days, and can be accessed through our home page or at http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle on any timetable you'd like, whether or not an email has gone out. Today's issue of Drug War Chronicle includes the major pieces we published during the last few weeks, as well as the most recent of our daily "Chronicle AM" roundups and other standard pieces.
 
Lastly, if you subscribe to the full-text edition of Chronicle emails, please note that those will probably return next week, but may wait until the last week of April after the aforementioned UN session is completed, due to the time constraints. If so, you'll continue to receive these table-of-contents editions in the meanwhile.
 
- David Borden, Executive Director
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