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- Feature: Mexico Decriminalization Bill Passes -- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?
- Feature: Cannabis Nation Takes to the Streets in First Week of Global Marijuana March
- Marijuana: Pot Continues to Climb in Public Opinion Polls -- Zogby Goes Over 50%
- Appeal: It's Time to CHANGE Business As Usual in Drug Policy
- Policial: Las historias de policÃas corruptos de esta semana
- Medical Marijuana: Another California Dispensary Raid
- Medical Marijuana: US 9th Circuit Upholds 10-Year Sentence for Bryan Epis, First California Supplier Tried on Federal Charges
- Medical Marijuana: Petition Drive Gets Underway for 2010 South Dakota Initiative
- Canada: Two-Thirds of British Columbia Voters Favor Legalizing Marijuana, Poll Finds
- Latin America: Argentine Appeals Court Throws Out Ecstasy Case, Says Pills Were for "Personal Use"
- Latin America: Jimmy Carter to Harvest Coca Leaves on Evo Morales' Farm
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- Editorial: What's With All the Good News Lately?
- Feature: Marijuana Reform Approaches the Tipping Point
- Sentencing: Obama Administration Tells Congress to End Crack/Powder Cocaine Disparity
- Appeal: It's Time to STOP Wasting Time, Money & Lives
- Marijuana: Marc Emery Associates Plead Guilty in Seattle, Face Canadian Probation
- Law Enforcement: Florida House Passes Watered Down "Rachel's Law" in Bid to Protect Informants from Dangerous Assignments
- Medical Marijuana: New Hampshire Bill Passes Senate, Awaits Governor's Signature
- Medical Marijuana: Rhode Island Dispensary Bill Passes Senate
- Medical Marijuana: Minnesota Bill Passes Senate
- Prohibition: Measure to Ban BZP Moving in Colorado Legislature
- Latin America: Mexico Senate Approves Bill Decriminalizing Drug Possession
- Canada: Provincial Court Rules Ontario Benefits Law Discriminates Against Alcoholics, Drug Addicts
- Europe: Cannabis Cafes in Dutch Border Region to Go Members Only?
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- Feature: Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Junior High Girl Strip Search Case
- Feature: 4/20 -- A Day for Celebration or a Day for Remonstration?
- Appeal: It's Time to STOP Wasting Time, Money & Lives
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Search and Seizure: Supreme Court Limits Police Car Search Powers
- Hard Times: Citing Budget Woes, California County to Stop Prosecuting Small-Time Drug Offenders
- Medical Marijuana: New Hampshire Bill Heads for Final Legislative Vote
- Medical Marijuana: Maine Legislature Punts, Bill Will Go Before Voters in November
- Salvia Divinorum: Man in First Bust Gets Deferred Sentence
- Latin America: Bolivian Cocaine Production Increasing, Official Says
- Canada: Victory for Patients as Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Government's Medical Marijuana Appeal
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- Job Opportunity: Policy Analyst/Content Editor, Common Sense for Drug Policy -- DRCNet Office in Washington, DC
- Job Opportunity: Publications Manager, Drug Policy Alliance, New York
- Announcement: Drug Policy Alliance Advocacy Grants Program: Promoting Policy Change RFP Guidelines
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- Feature: Mexico's Congress Hosts Forum on Marijuana Regulation, Decriminalization
- Feature: ASA in Federal Appeals Court Seeking to Force Government to Correct Medical Marijuana Misinformation
- Appeal: It's Time to STOP Wasting Time, Money & Lives
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Sentencing: Number of African Americans in Prison for Drugs Falling, Whites Increasing
- Drug Raids: Michigan Student Shot in the Chest Over "Spoonsful" of Marijuana to Be Charged
- Free Speech: Grand Jury Subpoenas Prominent Pain Relief Advocate Who Has Criticized the Prosecution of a Kansas Physician
- ONDCP: Addiction Specialist Nominated as Assistant Drug Czar
- Latin America: Colombia's Uribe Seeks to Recriminalize Drug Possession
- Latin America: Shining Path Kills 14 Soldiers in Peruvian Coca-Growing Area
- Southeast Asia: Vietnam Ponder Karaoke Bar Dance Ban in Bid to Slow Ecstasy Use
- The Movies: "American Violet" Film Opens Tonight, Tells the Story of the Hearne, Texas, Injustice
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- Job Opportunity: Executive Director, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Washington, DC
- Job Opportunities: Development Officer, Nevada Communication Director, and Summer Internships, Marijuana Policy Project
- Job Opportunity: Policy Analyst/Content Editor, Common Sense for Drug Policy -- DRCNet Office in Washington, DC
- Errata: 4/3/09 Danger of Drug Enforcement Story
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- Feature: Twenty Years of Drug Courts -- Results and Misgivings
- Feature: Michigan Medical Marijuana Law in Effect
- Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "Cool Madness: The Trial of Dr. Mollie Fry and Dale Schafer," by Vanessa Nelson (2008, MMA Publishing, 353 pp., $19.95 pb.)
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Marijuana Legalization: For First Time, Poll Finds Majority Support in California
- Sentencing: US Jail, Prison Population Hits Another Record High, Well Over Half a Million Drug Offenders Behind Bars
- Salvia Divinorum: Ohio's First Bust Came Day Before Law Went Into Effect
- Medical Marijuana: Florida Petition Drive Under Way
- Europe: Britain Could Save $20 Billion a Year by Legalizing Drugs, Study Finds
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- Job Opportunity: Policy Analyst/Content Editor, Common Sense for Drug Policy -- DRCNet Office in Washington, DC
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- Feature: "Dangerous" Drug Raids? Not So Much for Police -- Unless They Make Them So
- Feature: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- New York Rockefeller Drug Law Reform on the Verge of Passage
- Medical Marijuana: Oakland Cannabis Community Offers City Help on Taxes
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Press Release: Representatives Barney Frank and Ron Paul Introduce Hemp Farming Legislation
- Drug Testing: Widely Publicized West Virginia Bill to Test People on Public Assistance Dies
- Pregnancy: Missouri Bill to Criminalize Drug Using Mothers-To-Be Faces Tough Scrutiny, Similar Tennessee Bills Die
- Marijuana: Connecticut Decriminalization Bill Wins Committee Vote
- Medical Marijuana: Minnesota Bill Wins Committee Vote, Heads for Senate Floor
- Canada: With Conservative Government Pushing Tough Crime Package, Liberal MP Responds With Marijuana Decriminalization Bill
- Latin America: Mexican Drug War Targets Informal Saints of the Poor and the Narcos
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- Job Opportunity: Policy Analyst/Content Editor, Common Sense for Drug Policy -- DRCNet Office in Washington, DC
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- Feature: Failed Drug War Policies in Mexico? Let's Try More of the Same
- Feature: More Than A Quarter Million Marijuana Smokers in Drug Treatment Each Year -- Are We Wasting Valuable Treatment Resources?
- Sentencing: Rockefeller Drug Law Reform Deal Near, NY Times Says
- Medical Marijuana: In Wake of Holder Comments, Federal Judge Postpones Sentencing of California Medical Marijuana Provider Charles Lynch
- Medical Marijuana: DEA Raids San Francisco Dispensary Despite Holder Vow
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Criminal Justice: US Senator Introduces Bill to Create Commission for "Top-to-Bottom" Review of Criminal Justice System
- Privacy: Kansas House Passes Bill Mandating Drug Tests for Public Assistance
- Medical Marijuana: Illinois, Minnesota, New Hampshire Bills Advance
- Marijuana: Legalization Bill Introduced in Massachusetts
- Southeast Asia: Indonesia to Treat Drug Users, Not Jail Them
- Europe: Italian High Court Okays Lonesome Shepherd's Pot Smoking
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- Feature: Legislatures Take Up "Good Samaritan" Overdose Bills in Bid to Reduce Deaths
- Feature: Bills to Require Drug Testing for Welfare, Unemployment Pop Up Around the Country
- Medical Marijuana: California Dispensary Operator Faces Decades in Federal Prison at Sentencing Monday
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: Attorney General Holder Sends Another Signal -- No DEA Busts Unless You Violate State Law
- Latin America: Mexico Prohibition Violence Catches Washington's Eye, New Initiatives Pending
- Latin America: Peru to Export Coca Beer
- Drug Raids: Cops Shoot Michigan Student Over "A Few Tablespoonfuls" of Marijuana
- Medical Marijuana: New Hampshire Bill Wins Committee Vote, Heads for House Floor
- Medical Marijuana: Not in Iowa, Not This Year
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- Feature: Meeting in Vienna, UN Commission on Narcotics Drugs Prepares to Head Further Down Same Prohibitionist Path, But Dissenting Voices Grow Louder
- Feature: The Boston Ibogaine Forum -- from Shamanism to Cutting Edge Science
- Marijuana: US Rep. Loretta Sanchez Ponders "Pilot Program" for Pot Regulation
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Sentencing: New York Senate to Address Rockefeller Drug Law Reform in Budget -- Meanwhile, Another Damning Study Appears
- ONDCP: It's Official -- Kerlikowske Named as Drug Czar, But Biden Looms
- Law Enforcement: Cops Go Phishing for Dope at Virginia Concerts, Reel in Plenty
- Asset Forfeiture: Highway Robbery in Texas
- Marijuana: Pot Prohibition Causes Harm While Not Achieving Goals, Report Finds
- Medical Marijuana: Minnesota Bill Passes Another Senate Hurdle, Wins First House Vote
- Harm Reduction: Washington State Good Samaritan Bill Would Protect Those Bringing Overdosed Friends to Medical Care
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- Job Opportunity: Outreach Director, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, San Francisco, CA or Washington, DC
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- Feature: New York Assembly Passes Rockefeller Drug Law Reform Bill -- Fight Moves to the Senate
- Feature: Citing Startling Research on False Positive Drug Tests, Researchers Call for Moratorium on Field Drug Test Kit Testing
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Race: Blacks Arrested on Drug Charges in Wildly Disproportionate Numbers, Rights Group Charges
- Incarceration: Too Many Americans Behind Bars at Too High a Cost, Says Pew Study
- Salvia Divinorum: Possession -- But Not Sale -- Now Banned in South Dakota
- Search and Seizure: EFF, ACLU Ask Federal Appeals Court to Reject Warrantless GPS Tracking
- Medical Marijuana: On the Move in Minnesota as Second Senate Committee Gives Okay
- Medical Marijuana: Illinois Bill Advances With Favorable House Committee Vote
- Latin America: Mexican Troops Occupy Ciudad Juárez, US Officials Urge Greater Cooperation in Fight Against Cartels
- Europe: Dutch Mayors Say Border Coffee Shops to Close in Bid to Stifle Drug Tourism
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