Chronicle Archive
Comprehensive coverage of the War on Drugs since 1997
- Feature: US Drug Policies Flawed and Failed, Experts Tell Congressional Committee
- Feature: Amsterdam, Connecticut? Drug Reformer With Bold Vision Seeks State Office, Radical Change
- Law Enforcement: SWAT Run Amok
- Students: Intern at DRCNet and Help Stop the Drug War!
- Help Needed: Drug War Chronicle Seeking Cases of Informant Abuse
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: Bill Passes New York Assembly, Senate Must Act By Monday
- Medical Marijuana: Massachusetts Entrepreneur Gets Monopoly Distribution Initiative on Michigan Town Ballot -- Officials Surprised and Confused
- Press Release: New Report Finds Teen Marijuana Use Down in States With Medical Marijuana Laws
- Europe: Amsterdam's Coffee Shops Brace for Tobacco Smoking Ban
- Latin America: Coca Production Up Last Year, UN Reports
- Middle East: Israel to Ban Bong Sales?
- Latin America: Human Rights a Casualty in Chihuahua's Drug War
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
- Job Opportunity: Director of State Policies, Marijuana Policy Project, Washington, DC
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- Feature: Western Hemisphere's Only Heroin Maintenance Program Coming to an End
- Feature: Mendocino Marijuana Battle Waits for Election Results, Restrictive Initiative Draws Strong Opposition
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- Help Needed: Drug War Chronicle Seeking Cases of Informant Abuse
- Sentencing: US Jail and Prison Population At All-Time High Again Last Year
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: Oregon Appeals Court Protects Workers
- Busted: Veteran Yippie Activist Dana Beal Arrested in Illinois
- Latin America: US House Approves Mexico Anti-Drug Aid Bill, But Mexico Balks at Senate Human Rights Conditions
- Southwest Asia: Afghanistan Makes "World's Largest" Drug Bust -- 260 Tons of Hash Destroyed
- Latin America: More Argentine Courts Throw Out Drug Possession Charges
- Europe: Scottish Parliament Think-Tank Calls for Prescription Heroin, Safe Injection Sites, Legalized Marijuana
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- Feature: Summer's Here and the Time is Right for... Getting Busted Going to the Festival (If You're Not Careful)
- Feature: BC Supreme Court Rules Vancouver Safe Injection Site to Stay Open, Federal Drug Law Controlling It Unconstitutional
- Feature: Brazil Appeals Court Rules Drug Possession Not a Crime
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- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: California Appeals Court Throws Out Quantity Limits
- Medical Marijuana: Employment Rights Bill Passes California Assembly
- Marijuana: Hawaii County Council Rejects "Green Harvest" Eradication Program
- Marijuana: Idaho Resort Town Passes Three Initiatives -- Again
- Sentencing: New Jersey Spends $331 Million a Year Jailing Nonviolent Drug Offenders, Study Finds as Legislature Ponders Reforms
- Latin America: Rising Death Toll in Mexico's Drug War Signals Imminent Victory, Attorney General Claims
- Australia: Doc Group Lobbies for Tougher Western Australia Marijuana Laws, Cites Mental Health Threat
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- Weekly: This Week in History
- Drug Policy Alliance's Advocacy Grants Program Application Deadline Approaching
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- Feature: New Mexico's Medical Marijuana Law Is Working, But There Is a Hang-Up Over Production and Distribution
- Feature: Medical Marijuana at the Statehouse -- Stalled in St. Paul, Progress in Providence, Coming Out in Columbus
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- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Law Enforcement: Missouri Residents Sue Over Fake DEA Agent Busts
- Pain Medicine: Kansas Doctor Fights Back, Attacks Federal Prosecution and Controlled Substances Act as Unconstitutional
- Drug Treatment: Massachusetts Senate Ponders "Secure Treatment Centers"
- Europe: New Head of British Government Drug Advisory Council Favors Downgrading Ecstasy
- Europe: Colombian Vice-President Wants Debate on Cocaine Legalization
- Europe: Calabrian Mob Grows Rich and Powerful on Cocaine Profits
- Latin America: Chilean Senator Challenges Inclusion of Marijuana on "Dangerous Drugs" List
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- Feature: Battling Military Impunity in Mexico's Drug War
- Feature: Vancouver's Safe Injection Site Fights for Its Life -- Again
- Law Enforcement: Death of Florida Student Forced to Become a Snitch Sparks Protests in Tallahassee
- Offer: New Clergy Anti-Drug-War Video
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- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: GOP Attacks Obama for Suggesting He Would End Raids
- Pregnancy: South Carolina Supreme Court Overturns Woman's Murder Conviction for Fetal Death After Cocaine Use
- Latin America: Prohibition-Related Violence Surges in Mexico
- Canada: Marijuana Legalization Retains Majority Support, Poll Finds
- Europe: Despite British Marijuana Reclassification, No Jail for Low-Level Sellers
- Southeast Asia: Vietnam Ponders Drug Decriminalization
- Death Penalty: Malaysia Sentences Two to Hang for Marijuana Trafficking, Iran Executes Nine Drug Sellers
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Feature: "Color Blind" Drug War Disproportionately Targets Black Americans
- Feature: Global Marijuana Day Demonstrations Meet Repression in Handful of Cities
- News Release: Will SDSU Drug Bust Coverage Raise the Critical Questions?
- Offer: New Clergy Anti-Drug-War Video
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Salvia Watch: Magic Mint Now Illegal in Kansas, But Alabama Bill Dies
- Medical Marijuana: House Judiciary Chair Calls Out DEA on California Raids
- Medical Marijuana: Oregon Medical Marijuana Foe Drops Initiative Effort
- Harm Reduction: San Antonio Needle Exchange Program Not To Be, Texas Attorney General Says Would Violate State Law
- Europe: In Step Backwards, Britain Reschedules Marijuana as More Dangerous Drug
- Europe: Dutch Marijuana Tax Revenues at $600 Million a Year, Crop Is Country's Third Largest Export
- Southwest Asia: Iran Accuses West of Ignoring Afghan Opium, US Marines Conveniently Aid Tehran's Case
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- Students: Intern at DRCNet and Help Stop the Drug War!
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- In Mexico, Opposition to Plan Merida Emerges
- In Mexico's Drug Heartland, A Debate on Alternatives to the Drug War Takes Place
- Dedication: Seattle Musician Timothy Garon, Victim of the Drug War
- Offer: New Clergy Anti-Drug-War Video
- Sentencing: Woman Who Fled Michigan Drug Sentence 32 Years Ago Caught in California, Faces 20 Years
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Sentencing: Federal Crack Sentence Reductions Begin to Take Hold
- Marijuana: New York City Pot Arrest Capital of the World
- Europe: Dutch Ban on Magic Mushrooms Moves Closer
- Canada: Supreme Court Nixes Random Use of Drug Dogs
- Weekly: This Week in History
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- Job Listing: Field Coordinator, Americans for Safe Access, Oakland
- Feature: North Dakota Man Facing Years in Prison After Buying Salvia Divinorum On eBay
- Feature: Medical Marijuana Bill to Be Introduced in Mexico Next Week
- Offer: New Clergy Anti-Drug-War Video
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Salvia Watch: Florida Senate Votes to Criminalize the Diviner's Sage
- Law Enforcement: Florida Judge Throws Out Most Charges in Tampa Latin Kings Case, Chides Cops for Sleazy Snitch
- Latin America: Argentine Court Decriminalizes Drug Possession in Buenos Aires
- Southwest Asia: In Harm Reduction Move, Iran to Provide Condoms, Syringes in Vending Machines
- Europe: Head of Dutch Police Union Says Legalize Marijuana, a Dutch Mayor is on the Same Wave-Length
- Death Penalty: More Executions in Iran and Saudi Arabia, Syrian Activists Criticize Saudis
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
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- Students: Intern at DRCNet and Help Stop the Drug War!
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- Editorial: Yet More Unintended and Impossible-to-Predict Harm Caused by Drug Prohibition
- Salvia Watch: Two More States and One City Act Against the Plant, and North Dakota Marks First Bust
- The 2008 Presidential Campaign: On the Left, the Greens and the Nader Campaign
- Offer: New Clergy Anti-Drug-War Video
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Marijuana: Barney Frank Introduces Federal Decriminalization Bill
- Harm Reduction: More Than 300,000 HIV/AIDS Cases Linked to Injection Drug Use
- Marijuana: Nebraska Legislature Passes Stiffer Decrim Penalties, Bill Heads to Governor's Desk
- Addiction: Small Percentage of Drug Users Dependent One Year After First Use
- Asia: Beijing Police Begin Pre-Olympics Drug Crackdown
- Australia: South Australia Bans Bongs
- Latin America: Brazilians Don't Say "Legalize It"
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
- Feedback: Do You Read Drug War Chronicle?
- Students: Intern at DRCNet and Help Stop the Drug War!
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- Editorial: Justice Unhinged
- Beware the Dreaded Skunk: British Press Suffers Contact High, Contracts Bad Case of Reefer Madness
- Drugs, Libertarians, and the 2008 Presidential Campaign
- Spring Special: "Stop the Drug War" Knapsacks from StoptheDrugWar.org
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Sentencing: Supreme Court Passes on Chance to End Punishments for Acquitted Crimes
- Medical Marijuana: Minnesota Bill Heads for House Floor Vote, Last Stop Before Governor's Desk
- Pain Treatment: Prosecutors in Case Seek to Shut Up Doctor, Critics
- Southwest Asia: Iranian Police Kill 24 Drug Smugglers in "Shoot-Out"
- Latin America: Police in Rio Kill 11 in One Drug Raid, Three in Another
- Latin America: Mexican Catholic Church in Narco-Dollar Embarrassment
- Death Penalty: More Death Sentences in Algeria, Syria, Pakistan, a Reprieve in Vietnam
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- Students: Intern at DRCNet and Help Stop the Drug War!
- Job Listing: Full-Time and Internship Opportunities at the Marijuana Policy Project
- Webmasters: Help the Movement by Running DRCNet Syndication Feeds on Your Web Site!
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