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Comprehensive coverage of the War on Drugs since 1997
- Editorial: Should Philadelphia Be Excited About Its Big Drug Bust?
- Massachusetts Aims For Marijuana Decriminalization in November
- Michigan Medical Marijuana Initiative Well-Positioned for November
- Spring Special: "Stop the Drug War" Knapsacks from StoptheDrugWar.org
- Law Enforcement: Detroit Prosecutor Charged With Misconduct for Allowing False Testimony in Drug Case, Misleading Jury
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cop Stories
- Search and Seizure: Vermont Supreme Court Throws Out Marijuana Conviction Based on Warrantless Aerial Surveillance
- Europe: British Drug Advisors Say Leave Marijuana Where It Is, But PM Brown Is Set to Ignore Them
- Europe: Dutch Court Throws Out Maastricht Coffee Shop Ban on Foreigners
- Southeast Asia: Thailand Launches New "War on Drugs," But Promises No Killings (Maybe)
- Latin America: Ecuador Files Complaint Against Colombia for Spraying Coca Fields Near Border
- Middle East: Israeli Anti-Drug Campaign Links Marijuana Use to Terrorism
- This Week in History
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- Editorial: Evidence Disparities in the Drug War
- No Evidence Needed? War on Salvia Divinorum Heating Up -- YouTube Videos Play Role
- They Won't Give Up -- Alaska Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in State's Bid to Overturn Legal Marijuana At Home
- Appeal: Three Exciting New Book Offers for Our Donating Supporters
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Marijuana: Barney Frank to Introduce Federal Decriminalization Bill
- Search and Seizure: US Supreme Court to Decide Warrantless Search Case
- Medical Marijuana: California Dr. Molly Fry Sentenced to Five Years
- Politics: New York Governor Admits Past Cocaine, Marijuana Use, Few Are Bothered
- Drug Treatment: Idaho Senate Overrides Governor's Funding Increase Veto, Battle Continues
- Europe: Dutch Smoking Ban Will Not Apply to Marijuana, Health Minister Says
- Latin America: Bloody Easter Weekend in Mexico's Drug Wars
- Europe: Czechs Call for Legal Medical Marijuana
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- Drug Overdose Deaths Are Going Through the Roof -- Is Anybody Watching?
- States Shifting to "Four Pillars" Approach, Instead of Mass Arrests and Scare Tactics, for Confronting Methamphetamine
- Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "Over the Influence: The Harm Reduction Guide to Managing Drugs and Alcohol," by Patt Denning, Jeanne Little, and Adina Glickman (2004, Guilford Press, 328 pp., $16.95 PB)
- Appeal: Three Exciting New Book Offers for Our Donating Supporters
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Law Enforcement: Ohio SWAT Officer Who Killed Young Mother in Drug Raid Gets Charged With Misdemeanors, Faces Eight Months at Most
- Law Enforcement: Senate Votes to Restore Byrne Drug Task Force Funding Program
- Marijuana: New Hampshire House Passes Decriminalization Bill
- Drug Testing: Washington State Supreme Court Rejects Random Tests of Students
- Europe: Czechs to Decriminalize Marijuana Possession, Growing Up to Three Plants
- Latin America: First Coca Plantations, Cocaine Lab Found in Brazil
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- Job Listing: Internship Opportunities at the Marijuana Policy Project
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- Human Rights in the Drug War: NGOs Slam UN Drug Bureaucracies, Demand Compliance With UN Charter
- Medical Marijuana at the Statehouse: Prospects for 2008
- Appeal: Three Exciting New Book Offers for Our Donating Supporters
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Prisoner Re-Entry: Congress Passes Second Chance Act, Bill Goes to President Bush
- Drug Treatment: New Jersey Drug Court Expansion Bill Passes, Awaits Governor's Signature
- Europe: UN Drug Chief Talks Nice on Monday, Not So Nice on Wednesday
- Latin America: Bolivia Defies UN Drug Watchdog, Will Fund Push for Expanded Coca Markets
- Europe: Dutch Government to Review Marijuana Laws, Moves to Ban Grow Shops
- Europe: Vatican Updates List of Deadly Sins, Adds Drug-Taking, Drug-Selling
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- Not So Fast -- Funny Numbers in the Same Old 2008 US National Drug Strategy Report
- The New British National Drug Strategy -- A Little Tougher, Maybe a Little Smarter, But Essentially More of the Same
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: Kansas Bill Dies as Legislative Deadline Passes
- Medical Marijuana: Michigan Petition Signatures Approved, Measure Headed for November Ballot Unless Legislature Approves It First
- Hemp: Licensing Bill Passes Minnesota House, Would Require Federal Approval
- Appeal: Three Exciting New Book Offers for Our Donating Supporters
- Europe: Czech Supreme Court Throws Out Medical Marijuana Grow Conviction
- Pain Treatment: INCB Calls for Greater Access to Opioid Medicines in Developing World
- Latin America: INCB Calls on Peru, Bolivia to Ban Coca Chewing
- Jamaica: Government Considering Marijuana Legalization, Official Says
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- Crack Sentencing Gets a Hearing on Capitol Hill While Advocates Mobilize
- Bush Drug Treatment, Prevention, and Recovery Budget Cuts Raise Chorus of Criticism
- In Memoriam: William F. Buckley, Conservative Supporter of Drug Legalization
- Appeal: Three Exciting New Book Offers for Our Donating Supporters
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Money Laundering: US Supreme Court Skeptical of Government's Broad Interpretation
- Search and Seizure: US Supreme Court to Hear Case on Warrantless Vehicle Searches
- Sentencing: Vermont Bill Lowering Thresholds for Trafficking Charges Advances
- Pregnancy: Arizona Bill to Force Meth-Using Mothers-To-Be Into Treatment Passes Committee
- Europe: Denmark Parliament Approves Heroin Maintenance Pilot Project
- Latin America: Colombian Peasants Battle Police Over Coca Crops
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- Editorial: Politicians Are Too Scared to Talk About Drug Prohibition, So We Must Talk
- Top Doctors Association Says "YES" to Medical Marijuana in Historic Endorsement
- Stop Filling Prisons, California -- Advocates to Take Sentencing Reform Case to Voters
- In Memoriam: Dr. John P. Morgan
- Appeal: Three Exciting New Book Offers for Our Donating Supporters
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Marijuana: New Hampshire Decriminalization Bill Hits Bump
- Latin America: Colombian Soldiers Convicted of Killing Colombian Narcotics Police
- Europe: Grow Ops Pop Up in Southern Norway
- Australia: Queensland Passes Tough New Drug Law
- Southeast Asia: Methadone Maintenance Coming to Ho Chi Minh City
- Europe: Poll Finds Britons Prefer Status Quo on Marijuana, But One Quarter Would Support No Penalties At All
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- No Relief in Sight: Reynosa, Mexico, Military Occupation Yields No Let-Up in Drug War Violence
- Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the US Prison System," by Silja Talvi (2007, Seal Press, 356 pp., $15.95 PB)
- Appeal: Three Exciting New Book Offers for Our Donating Supporters
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Sentencing: Faced With Swollen Prisons, Idaho Ponders Reforms
- Medical Marijuana: California Vending Machines Draw Ire of UN Narcs
- Opiate Maintenance: Open Season on Methadone Clinics and Clients in the Indiana Legislature
- Civil Rights: Pennsylvania Bill Would Allow Involuntary Commitment of "Drug Dependent" People
- Marijuana: Washington ACLU Wants to Start a National Conversation
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- Middle East: Tel Aviv Seeks to Begin Heroin Maintenance Program
- Canada: Smell of Pot No Grounds for Arrest or Search, Says Saskatchewan Appeals Court
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- Feature: With More Cuts Proposed in Drug Task Force Grant Program, Battle to Restore Funding Moves to Two Tracks
- Feature: Vancouver Conference Sends a Message to the UN
- Appeal: Three Exciting New Book Offers for Our Donating Supporters
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- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Sentencing: Mukasey Tells Congress to Pass Bill Blocking Early Release for Crack Prisoners
- Medical Marijuana: New Northern California US Attorney Hints the Era of DEA Raids May Be Coming to an End
- Search and Seizure: The Smell of a Burning Joint Does Not Justify a Warrantless Entry, US Fourth Circuit Holds
- Ecstasy: Kansas Bill Would Make Simple Possession a Felony
- Tobacco: In Wake of Smoking Ban in Bars, Restriction on Strip Clubs, Underground "Smokehouses" Appear in Cleveland
- Southeast Asia: Philippines Court Orders Life Sentence for Selling Two Grams of Marijuana
- Death Penalty: Hash-Selling, Drunkenness Earn Ultimate Sanction, Two More Beheaded in Saudi Arabia
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- Medical Marijuana and the Right to Work: Under Attack in California and Oregon, At Risk In Most Other States As Well
- Pain Wars in the Heartland: With Their Doctor Behind Bars, Kansas Patients Wonder Where To Turn
- Appeal: Three Exciting New Book Offers for Our Donating Supporters
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- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Sentencing: US Attorney General Raises Specter of Violent Crime Jump If Crack Prisoners Released, Warns He Could Try to Block It
- Law Enforcement: Nebraska Man Files Complaint Over Bogus South Dakota Bust
- Medical Marijuana: Berkeley Declares Itself a Sanctuary City
- Medical Marijuana: First Kansas Bill Introduced
- Europe: German Police Use Grow Shop Customer Lists in Massive Marijuana Garden Busts
- Death Penalty: More Drug Executions in Saudi Arabia, More Death Sentences in Vietnam, But a Rare Sign of Leniency in China
- Latin America: Chávez Endorses Coca -- Again
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- Job Opportunities: System Support Specialist and Graphic Designer, Marijuana Policy Project, Washington DC
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