California Gov. Jerry Brown takes a tiny step toward corrections reform.
California Corrections "Realignment" Not Nearly Enough [FEATURE]
California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill "realigning" corrections in the state, but that's just the tiniest of baby steps toward fixing an out of control prison system. How about some real sentencing reform?
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Chronicle Book Review: Hostage Nation
We review a book on Colombia and US drug policy seen through a lens focused on American contractors and Colombian politicians kidnapped by the FARC.
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Montana Senate Votes for Medical Marijuana Repeal Bill
It may be up to Democratic Gov. Bryan Schweitzer to save medical marijuana in Montana. Only a procedural vote is left before the legislature repeals the voter-approved law.
Medical marijuana is moving at the state capitol in Dover (Image via Wikimedia.org)
Delaware Senate Passes Medical Marijuana Bill
Delaware has just moved a giant step closer toward becoming the next medical marijuana state.
Industrial hemp in France produces oils and fiber. (Image via Wikimedia.org)
Illinois House Kills Hemp Bill
The Illinois House has turned back a bid to permit farmers there to apply to grow hemp. Opponents cited the federal ban on hemp production and law enforcement's inability to tell the difference between hemp and weed.
Will voters take matters into their own hands now? (Image via Wikimedia)
Marijuana Legalization Bill Dies in Washington State
A move to legalize weed through the legislative process has died in Olympia, but some are acting to put a legalization initiative on the November ballot.
No growing your own, you Mainers! (Image courtesy of the author)
Maine Marijuana Decriminalization Bills Die
Bills that would have decriminalized up to five ounces of weed or six pot plants were killed in a Maine legislative committee last week.
Did You Know? Felon Loss of Voting Rights, on Procon.org
ProCon.org is a series of in-depth web sites presenting information and views on controversial issues, several of which relate to drug policy. The Chronicle is running a six-part series of info items from ProCon.org, and we encourage you to check it out.
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Mexico Drug War Update
More bloody days in Ciudad Juarez, and violence flares in Veracruz as well.
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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Missing drug money, meth-dealing sheriffs, cocaine-snorting crooked cops, cops turned robbers -- it's just another week on the corrupt cops beat.
There's plenty more where this came from, governor. (Image via Wikimedia)
Drug Test Protestors Send Urine Sample to Florida Governor
A Florida group formed to protest the governor's order that state employees be subjected to random drug testing has come up with an apt, if smelly, form of protest.
New Zealand takes a reasoned approach to fake pot. (Image via Wikimedia)
New Zealand to Regulate Rather Than Prohibit Synthetic Marijuana
New Zealand is responding to fake pot with regulation, not prohibition.
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This Week in History
Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.
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