New York City still has a marijuana arrest problem under Mayor de Blasio. (Wikimedia)
In Bid to Defend Marijuana Arrests, NYC Mayor de Blasio Attacks Drug Reformers
New York City remains the world's marijuana arrest capital, and it's still mainly black and brown people getting popped.
Herbs4You marijuana shop, Denver. (Wikimedia)
Why Are Pot Shops Mainly in Poor Neighborhoods?
It's not a plot.
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The 2017 International Drug Policy Reform Conference, October 11-14, Atlanta
The 2017 International Drug Policy Reform Conference is the major biannual gathering of drug policy reformers from around the world.
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Medical Marijuana Update
Interest in the medical marijuana industry is high in North Dakota, Hawaii gets its first two dispensaries, New Jersey ponders expanding qualifying conditions, and more.
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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
A Texas parole officer gets popped for getting pills from a parolee, a pair of California deputies get their hands slapped for stealing and reselling weed, a Texas jail guard gets nailed for collecting drug debts for a prisoner, and more.
Aging "trainspotters" are driving drug deaths in Britain, experts say. (Wikimedia)
Chronicle AM: British Drug Deaths at Record High, Another Good Poll for Pot, More... (8/3/17)
A new poll shows extremely low support for marijuana prohibition, Maine lawmakers want to restrict how much pot landowners can allow for personal grows, drug deaths are up dramatically in the UK, and more.
The DEA is set to cut Schedule II opioid manufacturing by 20% next year.
Chronicle AM: DEA to Cut Pain Pill Quotas Next Year, Sessions Eyes WA's Legal Pot, More...(8/4/17)
Attorney General Sessions is giving the hairy eyeball to Washington state's legal pot program, the DEA is moving to reduce prescription opioid production next year, the head of the Los Angeles city council wants the city to create a bank for the pot industry, and more.
Jeff Sessions is on a lonely crusade against marijuana legalization. (freethoughtproject.org)
Chronicle AM: Sessions' Crime Task Force Doesn't Recommend Going After Legal Marijuana, More... (8/7/17)
The attorney general's crime task force has little new to say about grappling with legal marijuana, Sessions sends another letter to another governor, the US leans on Colombia over coca, and more.
The Vancouver safe injection site has a hidden counterpart somewhere in the US. (vch.ca)
Chronicle AM: Secret Safe Injection Site in US City, VT "Blue Ribbon" MJ Panel, More... (8/8/17)
The body representing state legislatures again calls for marijuana reforms, Vermont's governor is about to empanel on commission to study legalization issues, a safe injection site has been operating secretly in a US city for the past three years, and more.
#WINNING in the polls.
Chronicle AM: Trump Wants More Drug War to Fight Opioids, New Pot Poll, More... (8/9/17)
A new Quinnipiac poll has support for marijuana legalization at a record high, Trump calls for a return to tough drug war policies to fight opioids, Hawaii gets its first dispensary, and more.
The president will declare a national emergency on the opioid crisis, he said Thursday. (Wikimedia/Gage Skidmore)
Chronicle AM: Trump Says He Will Declare National Emergency on Opioids, More... (8/10/17)
The president says he will formally declare a national emergency on the opioid crisis, Latino legislators embrace marijuana legalization, Utah medical marijuana supporters can begin signature-gathering for their initiative, and more.
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