Drug War Chronicle #741 - July 5, 2012

Mexico's president-elect is going to rejigger the way the country prosecutes its war on the drug cartels, but no radical changes are apparent.

Mexico's next president has joined the ever growing chorus of Latin American leaders calling for a serious discussion of drug legalization, even as he announced he would continue to fight the drug war in Mexico.

It's official: Colombia has re-decriminalized the possession of small amounts of drugs for personal use.

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California continues to have conniptions over medical marijuana, a scientific review finds marijuana's Schedule I status "untenable," and much, much more.

A solid majority of Canadians want to decriminalize marijuana possession, even as the national government heads in the opposite direction.

There's a whole lot of nastiness going on inside the Nevada Highway Patrol's drug dog program, and now a lawsuit by disgruntled troopers is revealing some highly questionable policing.

A Puerto Rican narcotics officer becomes the year's 29th drug war fatality after being ambushed in his vehicle Tuesday night.

Here are five more people who died in recent weeks in law enforcement operations related to drug law enforcement.

A crooked narc scandal in Florida just keeps on giving, a sticky-fingered Kansas City cop goes to jail, a former Arizona cop is in trouble for stealing pain pills, and an Arizona ICE agent cops to providing info to the cartels.