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- Feature: Scale-Back of College Aid Drug Penalty Becomes Accidental Casualty in Health Care Battle
- Feature: Washington Marijuana Legalization Initiative Aims for November Ballot
- Offer and Appeal: Order "10 Rules for Dealing with Police" -- Free With a Donation to StoptheDrugWar.org
- Latin America: Mexico Drug War Update
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Public Opinion: Poll Finds Support for Marijuana Legalization Still Rising, Medical Marijuana Overwhelming
- Legalization: Drug Czar Avoids Answering Question on Fed Response to California Initiative
- Asset Forfeiture: Justice Department Collaborating With State, Local Cops in "Policing for Profit," Report Says
- Salvia Divinorum: Ban Bill Moving in Minnesota, Age Restriction Bill Moving in Maryland
- Drug War Chronicle Video Review: "10 Rules for Dealing With Police," from Flex Your Rights
- Southwest Asia: Afghanistan #1 in Marijuana Production Now, Not Just Opium
- Europe: Britain to Ban Mephedrone in Two Weeks, Imports Already Blocked
- Weekly: This Week in History
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- Job Opportunity: Harm Reduction Specialist, Community Access, Inc., New York, NY
- Feature: California Will Vote on Marijuana Legalization This Year!
- Feature: Two Oregon Marijuana Initiatives -- Legalization and Medical -- Aim for November Ballot
- Commentary: What Not to Do if You Grow Marijuana and Police Visit You
- Offer and Appeal: Order "10 Rules for Dealing with Police" -- Free With a Donation to StoptheDrugWar.org
- Drug War Chronicle Video Review: "10 Rules for Dealing With Police," from Flex Your Rights
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Latin America: Mexico Drug War Update
- Medical Marijuana: New Jersey MS Patient Gets Five Years for Growing His Medicine
- Law Enforcement: New York City to Pay Out $33 Million for Unlawful Strip Searches
- Feds: National Drug Intelligence Center Predicts Continued Failure in Drug War
- Europe: Dutch Coffee Shop Owner Fined $10 Million Euros for Having Too Big a Stash
- Canada: Half Support Marijuana Decriminalization, Poll Finds
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- Drug War Chronicle Video Review: "10 Rules for Dealing With Police," from Flex Your Rights
- Feature: SSDP Does San Francisco -- The 11th Annual National Conference
- Offer and Appeal: Order "10 Rules for Dealing with Police" -- Free With a Donation to StoptheDrugWar.org
- Congress: Senate Passes Bill to Reduce, But Not Eliminate, Crack/Powder Sentencing Disparity
- Incarceration Nation: Number of People in State Prisons Declines for First Time Since Nixon, New Report Finds
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Latin America: Mexico Drug War Update
- Law Enforcement: Drug Cops Kill Two in Drug Raids in Florida and Tennessee
- Marijuana: Rhode Island Legislative Commission Endorses Decriminalization
- Prohibition: Illinois Bill to Ban Marijuana Blunt Wraps Passes State Senate
- Medical Marijuana: South Dakota Initiative Certified, Will Be on the November Ballot
- Europe: Hash Crackdown in Copenhagen's Christiania Didn't Work
- Europe: England to Ban Methedrone? Nutt Says Not So Fast
- Did You Know? Felon Voting Pro and Con Info, from ProCon.org
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- Feature: Senate Judiciary Committee Unanimously Passes Bill to Reduce Crack/Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity
- Feature: Ibogaine Forum 2010 -- Mourning the Movement's "Tare," Celebrating New Hopes for Research and Development
- Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction," by Dr. Gabor Maté (2010, North Atlantic Books, 468 pp., $17.95 PB)
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Latin America: Mexico Drug War Update
- Harm Reduction: Washington State "911 Good Samaritan Law" to Go Into Effect in June
- Prisoner Reentry: New Mexico Becomes Second State to Ban Criminal History Queries in Public Job Applications
- Prohibition: Kansas Becomes First State to Ban K2
- Marijuana: Hawaii Senate Passes Three Different Reform Measures
- Marijuana: New Hampshire House Passes Decriminalization Bill, But Without Veto-Proof Majority
- Did You Know? Pharmaceutical Drugs Based on Cannabis, on ProCon.org
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- Weekly: This Week in History
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- Job Opportunities: Drug Policy Alliance, New York and New Mexico Offices
- Feature: Mexico Conference Calls for New Direction in Drug Policy, Says Prohibition Has Failed
- Feature: UN Anti-Drug Agency Complains Latin American Decriminalization Trend Undermines Prohibition Regime
- Medical Marijuana: Bryan Epis Returned to Federal Prison, Must Serve Out 10-Year Sentence for Growing Pot for the Sick
- Latin America: Mexico Drug War Update
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Marijuana: Legalization Bill Reintroduced in California Assembly
- Legalization: So Say They Now -- US and Mexican Officials Say No to Debating It
- Medical Marijuana: Measure Passes New York Senate Health Committee, Assembly Health Committee
- Medical Marijuana: US Congressman Protests Colorado DEA Raids in Letter to Holder, Obama
- Europe: Heroin Maintenance Comes to Denmark
- Europe: Belgian Trekt Uw Plant (Grow Your Plant) Activists Win Collective Garden Case
- Did You Know: The D.A.R.E Program -- Is It Good for America's Kids? -- New Section on ProCon.org
- Weekly: This Week in History
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- Feature: Federal Medical Marijuana Raids in Colorado -- Is the Denver DEA Going Rogue?
- Feature: Chronicle of an Offensive Foretold -- The Occupation of Marja, Afghanistan
- Latin America: Mexico's Drug War Stirs Opposition in the Streets and from the Bishops
- Medical Marijuana: DEA Raids LA Dispensary, LA City Attorney Moves Against 21 More
- Latin America: Mexico Drug War Update
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: Iowa Pharmacy Board Recommends State Legalize It for Therapeutic Use
- Decriminalization: New Hampshire Bill Wins Committee Vote, Heads for House Floor
- Tainted Supply: Cocaine Laced With Levamisole Keeps Turning Up
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Did You Know? Laws, Fees and Possession Limits in the 14 Medical Marijuana States, on ProCon.org
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- Feature: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's... Methadone Man? Harm Reduction at the Vancouver Olympics
- Feature: El Paso City Council Passes Resolution Criticizing Drug War, But Only After Killing Marijuana Regulation Language
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Latin America: Mexico Drug War Update
- Harm Reduction: Washington Senate Passes Good Samaritan Bill, Would Protect Against Prosecution in Overdose Cases
- Drug Testing: Missouri Bill to Test Welfare Recipients Passes House, But Faces Battle in Senate
- Hemp: Idaho Resolution Supporting Industrial Production Fails in Legislature
- Canada: Federal Government to Appeal Ruling Okaying Safe Injection Site
- Europe: Anthrax Heroin Toll Rises as England Marks First Death
- Afghanistan: Opium Cultivation "Stable" This Year, UN Says
- Did You Know? Teen Marijuana Use Rates in Medical Marijuana States vs. Other States, on ProCon.org
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- Feature: Obama Seeks Increase in Drug War Spending in a Drug Budget on Autopilot
- Feature: CIA Misled Congress, Dragged Feet on Disciplining Employees in Killings of US Citizens in Peru Drug War Plane Shootdown
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Latin America: Mexico Drug War Update
- Marijuana: It's Pot Week in Providence as Rhode Island Solons Introduce Decrim Bill, Ponder Prohibition
- Medical Marijuana: Colorado Senate Passes Bill to Restrict Physicians' Recommending
- Methamphetamine: Cold Sufferers Caught in the Crosshairs
- Drug Testing: Missouri Senate Committee Passes Bill to Drug Test Welfare Recipients
- Law Enforcement: Massachusetts Family Sues, Claims Man Beaten to Death by Police after Caught Smoking Joint at Sobriety Checkpoint
- Europe: Anthrax-Tainted Heroin Death Toll Up to Ten
- Did You Know? FDA Stats on Deaths Related to Marijuana vs. Other Drugs, on ProCon.org
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
- Students: Intern at StoptheDrugWar.org (DRCNet) and Help Stop the Drug War!
- Job Opportunity: Harm Reduction Counselor/Outreach Worker/Driver, FROST'D at Harlem United, New York, NY
- Job Opportunity: Regional Coordinator, Asian Network of People who Use Drugs (ANPUD), Bangkok, Thailand
- Feature: Obama Nominates Drug Warrior Michele Leonhart to Head DEA -- Reformers Gird for Battle
- Feature: Hundreds of Los Angeles Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Face Closure Under New Rules Passed by Council
- Latin America: Mexico Drug War Update
- Latin America: Mexico Proposes Banning Narcocorridos (Drug Ballads)
- Legalization: California Tax and Regulate Marijuana Initiative Hands in Signatures
- Law Enforcement: Maryland Bill Would Ban SWAT Teams for Misdemeanors
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Prohibition: Ban on Spice, BZP Passes Kansas Senate
- Southeast Asia: Human Rights Watch Charges Torture, Rape, Illegal Detentions at Cambodian Drug "Rehab" Centers, Demands Shutdown
- South Pacific: Leading Tahiti Political Figure Says Legalize Weed and Sell It to Tourists
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- Feature: Anthrax-Tainted Heroin Takes Toll in Europe, Prompts Calls for Emergency Public Health Response
- Feature: South Dakota Medical Marijuana Campaigners Set to Hand in Signatures for November Initiative
- Congress: Bill to Do Top-to-Bottom Review of Criminal Justice System, Drug War Passes Senate Judiciary Committee
- Latin America: Mexico Drug War Update
- Marijuana/Medical Marijuana: More States, More Bills, More Hearings
- Public Opinion: ABC News/Washington Post Poll Shows Four Out of Five Support Medical Marijuana, Nearly Half Support Legalization
- Marijuana: No More Possession Prosecutions in Seattle, New City Attorney Says
- Medical Marijuana: Corzine Signs Bill, Making New Jersey the 14th State
- Marijuana: Washington State Decriminalization and Legalization Bills Killed in Committee
- Europe: Copenhagen City Council Wants Cannabis Stores, But Proposal Faces Bumpy Ride in Parliament
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