Chronicle Archive
Comprehensive coverage of the War on Drugs since 1997
- Chronicle Book Review: Narco Media
- This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- House Rules Committee Blocks Marijuana Amendments in Spending Bills, UN World Drug Report 2024 Released, More... (6/26/24)
- Supreme Court Throws Out Oxycontin Settlement, Honduras Ex-President Sentenced as Cocaine Trafficker, More... (6/27/24)
- New FL Law Protects Residents from Cocaine-Crazed Bears, CA Bars Must Now Offer Date Rape Drug Test Kits, More...(7/1/24)
- Federal Court Reject Pot Companies' Challenge to Prohibition, Peru Coca Eradication, More... (7/2/24)
- DE Bill to Let Dispensaries Begin Adult Use Pot Sales Goes to Governor, 19 Dead in Mexico Drug Gang Clash, More... (7/3/24)
- Arkansas MedMJ Init Campaign Hands in Signatures, FL Poll Has Good Tidings for Legalization Init, More... (7/5/24)
- Leading Filipina Critic of Duterte's Bloody Drug War Finally Free of All Charges After Years in Jail on Bogus Charges [FEATURE]
- FDA Panel Rejects MDMA for PTSD Application, But Recommendation Is Not Binding [FEATURE]
- Chronicle Magazine Review: The Baffler, No. 74, Altered States
- Medical Marijuana Update
- This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- VT Lawmakers Override Safe Injection Site Veto, Dutch "Weed Experiment" Expands, More... (6/18/24)
- CA State Fair Will Be First in Nation to Allow Weed Sales, AZ Governor Vetoes Psilocybin Services Bill, More... (6/19/24)
- NC Senate Approves MedMJ, DE House Approves Expedited Adult-Use Sales Bill, More... (6/20/24)
- Former DEA Heads and GOP AGs Seek Hearing on Marijuana Rescheduling; China-US Meeting on Fentanyl, More... (6/21/24)
- FL Legal Pot Campaign Now Most Highly-Funded Ever, UN Health Expert Calls for End to War on Drugs, More... (6/24/24)
- Trump & Allies Call for Biden Drug Test, Brazil Supreme Court Moves to Decriminalize Pot, More... (6/25/24)
- DEA to Reschedule Marijuana -- Weed World Reacts [FEATURE]
- Chronicle Book Review: Quick Fixes
- This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Congressional Dems Call for DEA to Move Fast on Pot Rescheduling, Biden Signs Fentanyl Bill, More... (4/25/24)
- DEA Warns on Xylazine in Illicit Fentanyl, BC Recriminalizes Public Drug Possession, More... (4/29/24)
- DEA Recommends Rescheduling Marijuana, San Francisco Drug Crackdown Continues, More... (4/30/24)
- Senate Democrats File Federal Legalization Bill, Push to Expand Organic Grow Program, More... (5/1/24)
- Federal Bill Would Restrict .50 Caliber Rifles in Bid to Block Cartel Access [FEATURE]
- Chronicle Book Review: The Suburban Crisis
- Chronicle Book Review: Smoke and Ashes
- This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- MN Lawmakers Set Stage for Legal Weed Industry, Afghans Eradicate Miles of Opium Poppies, More... (5/24/24)
- LA First State to Make Abortion Drugs Controlled Substances, NH Senate Approves Marijuana Legalization Bill, More... (5/28/24)
- South Africa Legalizes Marijuana, DE Governor Signs MedMJ Expansion Bill, More... (5/29/24)
- CA Cops Now Support Marijuana Legalization, One-Year Anniversary of San Francisco Drug Crackdown, More... (5/30/24)
- One-Third of Americans Know Someone Who Died of an Overdose, LA Bans "Gas Station Heroin," More... (5/31/24)
- CA Kratom Regulation Bill Advances, VT Governor Vetoes Safe Injection Site Bill, More... (6/3/24)
- Chronicle Mini-Book Mini-Review: A Weed Grows in Boston
- This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- No MedMJ for South Carolina This Year, Mexico Deploys Troops to Border Amid Cartel Clashes, More... (5/2/24)
- VT Senate Approves Safe Injection Site Bill, CT House Approves Bill to Regulate Cannabis Products, More... (5/3/24)
- Pot Use Among Workers at "Historic" High, Afghanistan Opium Eradication Clashes, More... (5/6/24)
- Delaware Releases Draft Rules for Legal Pot Commerce, New Zealand Call for Drug Legalization, More... (5/7/24)
- NH Pot Legalization Bill Still Lives, Deadly Bomb Strikes Taliban Opium Eradicators, More... (5/9/24)
- DEA Releases Annual Threat Assessment, PA Set to Ban Xylazine, More... (5/10/24)
- APPEAL: Help Us Respond to the Opportunities and the Challenges of This Time
- Online This Week: Victims Move Forward from the Philippine Drug War
- In Bold Step Backward, OR Lawmakers Vote to Recriminalize Drug Possession [FEATURE]
- Florida Supreme Court Clears Marijuana Legalization Initiative for November Ballot [FEATURE]
- Medical Marijuana Update
- FL Governor Warns Against Weed Initiative, Iran's Execution Binge, More... (4/5/24)
- CO House Passes Safe Injection Site Bill, Christiania Rips Up Pusher Street, More... (4/8/24)
- More Truck Drivers Refuse Drug Tests, KS Asset Forfeiture Reform Heads to Governor, More... (4/9/24)
- Senate Democrats to Roll Out Marijuana Legalization Bill This Month, More... (4/10/24)
- Poll Finds Americans Want to Grow Their Own Weed, ME Psychedelic Study Bill Goes to Governor, More... (4/11/24)
- NH House Approves Marijuana Legalization Bill, CA Methadone Access Bill Filed, More... (4/12/24)
- Six States Where the Voters Could Decide on Marijuana Policy in 2024 [FEATURE]
- Trying to Grow Pot Right is a Real Fight [FEATURE]
- Medical Marijuana Update
- This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- SD Gov Banned by Tribes Over Cartel Comments, Brazil Senate Considering Prohibition Amendment, More... (4/15/24)
- CA Therapeutic Psychedelics Bill Advances, KY Prison Guards Tase Prisoners for Drug Test Fails, More... (4/16/24)
- ND Legal Pot Initiative Filed, Amsterdam Mayor Calls for Regulated Cocaine, Ecstasy Sales, More... (4/16/24)
- Blumenauer Honored for Marijuana Leadership, Sentencing Commission Ends Acquitted Conduct Punishments, More... (4/18/24)
- Another Poll Has a Strong Majority for Marijuana Legalization, MO Veterans' Psilocybin Bill Advances, More... (4/19/24)
- CO Safe Injection Site Bill Killed, Crowds on Golden Gate Park's Hippy Hill for 4/20, More... (4/22/24)
- Hawaii Senate Kills Pot Decrim Expansion; Federal Drug Tests Could Drop MDMA, Add Fentanyl, More... (4/23/24)
- Biden Pardons a Handful of Former Drug Prisoners, CA Therapeutic Psychedelics Bill Advances, More... (4/24/24)
- Trump and Duterte: Allies in Violence (video)
- Medical Marijuana Update
- This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- CA Governor Vetoes Naloxone Insurance Bill, Idaho Governor Signs Fentanyl Mandatory Minimums, Bill... (2/26/24)
- AZ Bill Targets "Predatory" Moves on Social Equity Pot Licenses, NV First Weed Lounge Opens, More... (2/27/24)
- DEA Warns E-Sellers on Pill Presses, Indiana Sees Another Year With No Pot Law Reforms, More... (2/28/24)
- VA Lawmakers Approve Pot Sales Bills, OR Drug Recrim Bill Advances, More... (2/29/24)
- Reform Groups Call for Descheduling Cannabis, Honduras Busts Another Coca Plantation, More... (3/1/24)
- Germany's Parliament Votes for Marijuana Legalization Today [FEATURE]
- Tom Cotton Files Bill to "Eliminate the Jalisco Cartel Leadership" [FEATURE]
- Medical Marijuana Update
- This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Germany Pot Legalization One Vote Away, SD Bill to Hike Sentences in Fatal ODs Advances, More...(2/5/24)
- Magic Mushroom Busts Jump, "Gas Station Heroin" Brand Recalled, More... (2/6/24)
- ID Lawmakers Move to Ban Weed Advertising, CA Therapeutic Psychedelic Bill Filed, More... (2/7/24)
- OR Drug Recriminalization Debate, AR MedMJ Advocates Resubmit Ballot Initiative, More... (2/8/24)
- SF Mayor's Bid to Drug Screen Welfare Seekers Draws Opposition, PA Drug Courts to Allow Opioid Meds, More... (2/9/24)
- MA Therapeutic Psilocbyin Bill Advances, WA Home Grow Bill Dies Without a Vote, More... (2/12/24)
- NM Therapeutic Psilocybin Resolution Advances, Philippines MedMJ Bill Advances, More... (2/13/24)
- HI Legal Marijuana Bill Advances, San Francisco Voters Ready for Crime Crackdown, More... (2/14/24)
- NH Marijuana Legalization Bill Advances, Zelensky Signs Ukraine MedMJ Bill, More... (2/15/24)
- IL Therapeutic Psilocybin Bills Filed, Boise Police Raid Harm Reduction Offices, More... (2/16/24)
- New York Approves Draft Home Grow Rules, Idaho Resorts to Fentanyl Mandatory Minimums, More... (2/20/24)
- VA Lawmakers Seek MJ Sales Compromise, AR MedMJ Expansion Init Approved for Signature-Gathering, More... (2/21/24)
- Job Corps Eases Rules for Marijuana, OR Dems Agree to Drug Possession Recrim, More... (2/22/24)
- Vets' Groups Urge Quick Marijuana Rescheduling, German Parliment Votes to Legalize Weed, More... (2/23/24)
- East Coast Sees First Certified Regenerative Organic Marijuana Operation [FEATURE]
- Chronicle Book Review: The Silver Bullet Solution
- VA Legal Marijuana Sales Bill Advances, UK's First Drug Checking Service Opens, More... (1/26/24)
- High Level US-China Meeting on Fentanyl Precursors Tomorrow, WV Drug Test Strip Bill Advances, More... (1/29/24)
- A Dozen Senators Call for Descheduling Marijuana, Bolivia Coca Grower Blockades, More... (1/30/24)
- Portland Drug Emergency Declared, WA Home Grow Bill Advances, More... (1/31/24)
- HHS Issues Rule to Ease Methadone Access, Texas AG Sues Pot Reform Cities, More... (2/1/24)