Chronicle Archive
Comprehensive coverage of the War on Drugs since 1997
- Feature: America's War in Afghanistan Becomes America's Drug War in Afghanistan
- Feature: California Marijuana Legalization Initiative Effort Underway, Aimed at 2010 Ballot
- Alert: Medical Marijuana Defendant Bryan Epis Wants YOU to Take Political Action
- Medical Marijuana: Legislature Overrides Veto to Make Rhode Island Third Dispensary State
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: Barney Frank Introduces Federal Bill to Get DEA Out, Reschedule as Medicine
- Marijuana: US Congressman Mark Kirk Introduces Bill Targeting "Kush Super-Marijuana"
- Sentencing: Louisiana Bill to Allow Parole for Heroin Lifers Passes Full House, Senate Committee
- Europe: Croatia Supreme Court Throws Out Jail Sentence in Veteran's Use of Medical Marijuana for PTSD
- Latin America: Chile Not Ready for Marijuana Legalization Yet, Poll Finds
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- Please: Don't Shoot!
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- Feature: In Bold Step Backward, Canadian House of Commons Passes Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentencing Bill
- Feature: The Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy -- More, Better Drug War?
- Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre," by Richard Grant (2008, Free Press, 288 pp., $15.00 PB)
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: House Appropriations Committee Asks for Clarification of Federal Stance on Raids
- Medical Marijuana: California Dispensary Operator Charles Lynch Sentenced to a Year and a Day, Remains Free Pending Appeal
- Medical Marijuana: Rhode Island Dispensary Bill Passes with Veto-Proof Margins
- Harm Reduction: Overdose Prevention Bill Introduced, Study Released
- Tough Times: California Protests Over HIV/AIDS Budget Cuts -- Needle Exchange Funding at Risk, Prop. 36 Funding to Vanish
- Sentencing: Poll Finds Public Open to Probation, Diversion Instead of Hard Time for Drug Possession, Other Nonviolent Offenses
- Prohibition: Republican Senator Calls for Outlawing Tobacco
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- Feature: New York Republicans, Prosecutors in Last Minute Bid to Block Rockefeller Reform Provision
- Feature: DC Moves Toward Stricter Penalties for Khat
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: Mid-Atlantic Movement as Delaware, New Jersey Bills Win Committee Votes
- Medical Marijuana: Rhode Island Dispensary Bill Passes House, Now Goes for Final Senate Approval
- Medical Marijuana: Veterans Administration Says Positive Marijuana Drug Screening Will Not Void Pain Contracts for Vets with Doctors' Recommendations
- Drug Testing: Random Suspicionless Drug Tests Suffer Double Smackdown in Louisiana
- Please: Don't Shoot!
- Europe: Nice People Take Drugs, Says British Advocacy Group
- Canada: New Heroin Maintenance Pilot Program to Get Underway Later This Year
- Europe: German Parliament Approves Heroin Maintenance
- Canada: Supreme Court Clarifies Asset Forfeiture Law, Allows Graduated Sanctions
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- Job Opportunity: Legal Coordinator, Americans for Safe Access, Oakland, CA
- Feature: Effort to Bring Safe Injection Facility to New York City Getting Underway
- Feature: Health Canada Adjusts Medical Marijuana Program, Doubles Number of People Providers Can Grow For -- From One to Two
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Please: Don't Shoot!
- Law Enforcement: Supreme Court Holds Drug Purchasers Can't Be Charged With "Facilitation" Felonies for Calling Drug Dealers
- Medical Marijuana: Bill Passes Illinois Senate, Heads to House
- Medical Marijuana: New York Bill Wins Senate Committee Vote
- Public Opinion: Rasmussen Poll Finds 41% Favor Legalizing and Taxing Marijuana
- Europe: Dutch Plan to Reduce Amsterdam Coffee Shop Numbers in Bid to Clean Up City Center
- Europe: Danish Court Says Christiania Residents Have No Right to It
- Latin America: Attacks Made on Candidates from Mexican Party That Favors Drug Legalization
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- Job Opportunity: National Field Coordinator, Americans for Safe Access, Oakland, California
- Feature: Supreme Court Rejects Counties' Challenge to California's Medical Marijuana Law
- Feature: Minnesota Legislature Passes Medical Marijuana Bill, But Veto Looms
- Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug," by Paul Gootenberg (2008, University of North Carolina Press, 442 pp, $24.95 PB)
- Warning: No One Is Safe from SWAT Raids
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: Eddy Lepp Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison
- Medical Marijuana: Rhode Island House Passes Dispensary Bill
- Drug Legalization: Conservative Colorado Republican Tom Tancredo Joins the Chorus
- Law Enforcement: Maryland Governor Signs Bill Requiring SWAT Team Reporting
- Europe: Oslo Police Plan Crackdown on Hash Users, Buyers
- Australia: South Australia Police Subject Club, Concert-Goers to Drug Dog Checks
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- Errata: GMM and PRN/Schneider Grand Jury Articles
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- Job Opportunity: New Orleans Chapter Organizer, Critical Resistance, New Orleans
- Feature: Medical Marijuana at the Statehouse -- The State of Play
- Feature: The Global Marijuana Marches, Part II
- Warning: No One Is Safe from SWAT Raids
- Law Enforcement: 77-Year-Old Man Killed in Marijuana Raid After Firing on Officers
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Free Speech: ACLU Backs Pain Activist's Effort to Quash Subpoena Issued in Kansas Case
- Marijuana: Connecticut Decriminalization Bill Dead in Water Following Arrest of Activist
- Canada: Veterans Affairs to Cover Medical Marijuana Expenses
- Latin America: Colombia's President Wants to Jail Coca Growing Farmers
- Europe: Dutch Border Province Cannabis Coffee Shops to Go "Members Only" in Bid to Dampen "Drug Tourism"
- Appeal: It's Time to CHANGE Business As Usual in Drug Policy
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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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