Chronicle Archive
Comprehensive coverage of the War on Drugs since 1997
- 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
- Weekly: This Week in History
- 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
- Weekly: This Week in History
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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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- Feature: End of an Era? No More DEA Raids on Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, US Attorney General Says
- Feature: California Assemblyman Introduces Landmark Bill to Legalize, Tax, and Regulate Marijuana
- Law Enforcement: Belated Justice for Kathryn Johnston as Judge Sentences Atlanta Narcs Who Killed Her to Prison
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Federal Budget: House 2009 Appropriations Bill Contains Even More Drug War Funding Increases... And a Slight Cut to Plan Colombia
- Medical Marijuana: New Jersey Bill Passes State Senate
- Prohibition: Salvia Mania Sweeps State Legislatures as Bans Spread Across County
- Heroin Maintenance: Study Suggests Baltimore Could Be Ripe for a Pilot Program
- Public Opinion: Kellogg Reputation Takes a Hit Over Dumping Michael Phelps
- South Asia: Indian Health Minister Calls for National Alcohol Prohibition
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- Job Opportunity I: Communications Director, Marijuana Policy Project, Las Vegas
- Job Opportunity II: Executive Director, Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition, Providence, RI
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- Feature: INCB Calls for More of the Same on Global Drug Policy -- Critics Call for No More INCB
- Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "Dope Menace: The Sensational World of Drug Paperbacks, 1900-1975," by Stephen J. Gertz (2008, Feral House Press, 219 pp., $24.95 PB)
- Marijuana: Zogby Poll Shows Majority Support for Taxing and Regulating Marijuana on the West Coast, Support Climbing Nationwide
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Federal Budget: Economic Stimulus Bill Stimulates Drug War, Too
- Law Enforcement: Maryland Bill Would Require SWAT Team Monitoring
- Medical Marijuana: New Jersey Senate to Vote on Bill Monday
- Marijuana: Washington State Decriminalization Bill Wins Committee Vote
- Law Enforcement: DEA Spent $123,000 on Administrator's Flight to Colombia
- Methamphetamine: Bill Equating Meth Use with Child Abuse Passes New Mexico House
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- Alert: Keep the Promise, President Obama -- Stop the Medical Marijuana Raids!
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- Editorial: Obama's Other War
- Feature: It's Time for a New Drug Policy Paradigm, Say Latin American Leaders
- Feature: Drug Reformers Boycott Kellogg Cereals Over Dumping of Michael Phelps Over Bong Photo
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- ONDCP: Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske Named New Drug Czar
- Incarceration: Federal Judges Order California to Free Tens of Thousands of Prisoners
- Pain Management: FDA to Tighten Regulation of Extended-Release and Patch Opioid Meds
- Medical Marijuana: Minnesota Bill Passes Senate Committee
- Europe: Danish Heroin Maintenance Program to Commence Next Month
- Europe: British Drug Advisory Panel Recommends Downgrading Ecstasy, Government Says No
- Europe: Dutch Banks Must Deal With Cannabis Cafes, Minister Says
- Alert: Keep the Promise, President Obama -- Stop the Medical Marijuana Raids!
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- Job Opportunity: Online Content Manager, Marijuana Policy Project, Washington, DC
- Feature: DEA Raids More California Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, Prompting Obama Administration to Reiterate Pledge to Stop Them
- Feature: Is This the Year New York's Rockefeller Drug Laws Will Be Repealed?
- Alert: Keep the Promise, President Obama -- Stop the Medical Marijuana Raids!
- Drug Raids: Virginia Man Found Guilty of Manslaughter in Shooting of Police Officer Battering His Door Down
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: South Dakota Bill Killed, House Votes to Ban Salvia Divinorum for Good Measure
- Pain Relief: FDA Panel Urges Ban on Darvon, Related Drugs
- Marijuana: New Hampshire Legislator Introduces Decriminalization Bill
- Marijuana: Vermont Legislators Introduce Decriminalization Bill
- Southwest Asia: US NATO Commander in Afghanistan Backs Down on Order to Kill Any Drug Traffickers
- Canada: BC Judge Rules Medical Marijuana Restrictions Unconstitutional
- East Asia: Tokyo Metro Government Annoyed but Helpless Over Pro-Marijuana Mag
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- Students: Intern at DRCNet and Help Stop the Drug War!
- Job Opportunity: Executive Director, Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition, Providence