addicted_to_courts-cover-full;size$250,324.jpg
Drug Courts Poor Public Policy, Reports Charge [FEATURE]
New new reports take a hard look at drug courts and suggest more effective alternatives.
Dr. Marion Fry with longtime partner, attorney, Dale Schafer at their home near Sacramento. (Photo by Sharon Letts)
Medical Marijuana Providers Dr. Mollie Fry and Dale Schafer Prepare for Prison [FEATURE]
Dr. Marion "Mollie" Fry and her partner, Dale Schafer, are about to go to federal prison for five years for medical marijuana.
From Dover to Olympia, medical marijuana is on the move. (Image via Wikimedia.org)
Medical Marijuana Bills Advance in Delaware, Washington
Bills that would allow state-licensed medical marijuana dispensaries are moving in Washington, which already has a medical marijuana law, and Delaware, which doesn't.
Did You Know? 71 Peer-Reviewed Medical Marijuana Studies, on ProCon.org
MedicalMarijuana.ProCon.org, part of the ProCon.org family, is an in-depth web site presenting information and views from a variety of perspectives on the medical marijuana issue. The Chronicle is running a six-part series of info items from ProCon.org, and we encourage you to check it out.
Common sense at the statehouse in Little Rock (Image via Wikimedia.org)
Arkansas Unemployment Drug Testing Bill Dies
The perennial legislative impulse to drug test people receiving public benefits has petered out this year in Little Rock.
Rick Scott
Florida Governor Orders State Employee Drug Testing
Florida's new Republican governor wants to make state employees pee in a cup to keep their jobs. The state ACLU reminds him that that's a constitutional no-no.
US surveillance drones now in use over Mexico
Mexico Drug War Update
The US ambassador to Mexico resigns over Wikileaks, Mexico acknowledges allowing unmanned US surveillance drones over Mexico, a prominent trafficker is killed, a well-known musician is wounded. And of course, the threats and the carnage that have become usual since Calderon intensified the Mexican drug war continue unabated.
drug cash sometimes corrupts cops (image via Wikimedia)
This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Jail guards, probation officers, narcs, deputies, DARE officers, ICE agents -- it's corrupt cops gone wild this week!
Philip David Chapman, Jr.
South Carolina Drug Task Force Officer Wounded, Suspect Killed
A South Carolina drug task force's effort to apprehend a fugitive instead resulted in a shootout leaving a deputy wounded and the suspect dead.
Herbert Earl Harris
Jacksonville Narc Kills Armed Drug Suspect
Jacksonville undercover narcotics officers serving drug and fugitive warrants shot and killed the suspect after he displayed a weapon.
Not everyone is buying HPD's version of events (Image via Wikimedia)
Two More Killed in US Drug Enforcement Incidents
It's only mid-March, but 19 people, including two law enforcement officers, have already died in drug enforcement-related incidents this year. The latest deaths came last Wednesday in Houston and Tulsa.
parthenon_23.gif
This Week in History
Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.
Permission to Reprint: This content is licensed under a modified Creative Commons Attribution license. Content of a purely educational nature in Drug War Chronicle appear courtesy of DRCNet Foundation, unless otherwise noted.