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Comprehensive coverage of the War on Drugs since 1997
- Editorial: Why We Are Fighting to End the War on Drugs
- Feature: As Afghan Opium Production Goes Through the Roof, Pressure for Aerial Eradication, Increased Western Military Involvement Mounts
- Feature: Stirring the Pot in Denver -- "Lowest Law Enforcement Priority" Marijuana Initiative to Go to Voters As Activists Bedevil Council, Mayor
- Review and Critique: Methamphetamine Mice Study Falls Far Short
- Appeal: Massive Increases to Our Web Site Traffic Have Increased Our Costs...
- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Asset Forfeiture: ACLU Sues DEA Over Trucker's Seized Cash
- Medical Marijuana: WAMM Lawsuit Hits Bump
- Harm Reduction: Pennsylvania Moves to End Prescription Requirement for Buying Needles
- Europe: Czech Marijuana Users to Get Lesser Penalties
- Latin America: Nicaraguan Leader Asks for $1 Billion in Anti-Drug Aid
- Africa: Guinea-Bissau Threatens to Shoot Down Drug Planes
- Conference: Drug Policy Alliance, New Orleans, December 2007
- Web Scan
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Feedback: Do You Read Drug War Chronicle?
- Students: Intern at DRCNet and Help Stop the Drug War!
- Job Listing: Director of Government Relations, MPP
- Job Announcement: Executive Director, Justice Policy Institute
- Proposals: IHRD Providing Small Grants on Health and Human Rights, 2008 UN Drug Summit
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- Feature: Push for Medical Marijuana Underway in Kansas
- Feature: Pot Peace in Seattle as Another Hempfest Celebrates Cannabis Nation
- Drug War Prisoners: 86-Year-Old Alva Mae Groves Dies Behind Bars
- Drug War Prisoners: Pain Patient Richard Paey to Get Shot at Early Clemency
- Drug War Prisoners: Rockefeller Law Victim Turned Activist Veronica Flournoy Dead at 39
- Appeal: Massive Increases to Our Web Site Traffic Have Increased Our Costs...
- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: Is An Ohio Initiative In the Works?
- Medical Marijuana: Obama Says End Raids, All Democratic Presidential Candidates Now on Board
- Marijuana: Humboldt County Supervisors Say Legalize It
- Europe: First German Patient Approved to Use Medical Marijuana
- Weekly: This Week in History
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- Editorial: Drug Prohibition from Colombia to Afghanistan This Week
- Feature: In Strategy Shift, US Troops to Join Battle Against Opium in Afghanistan
- Chronicle Book Review: "The Cult of Pharmacology: How America Became the World's Most Troubled Drug Culture," by Richard De Grandpre (2007, Duke University Press, 294 pp., $24.95 HB)
- Press Release: Marijuana Dealers Offer Schwarzenegger One Billion Dollars
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: Feds Seek Oregon Patient Records in Probe of Growers -- Patients Cry Foul
- Medical Marijuana: New Mexico Balks At Growing It
- Medical Marijuana: A Push Gets Underway in Kansas
- Asset Forfeiture: Austin Police Use of Seized Funds Probed
- Latin America: Colombian Admiral Fired in Growing Probe of Military Drug Corruption
- Latin America: Nicaraguan President Warns of DEA's "Unexpected Interests" and "Terrible Things"
- South Asia: India's Shravan Pilgrims Bring Profits to Marijuana Sellers
- Web Scan
- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Feedback: Do You Read Drug War Chronicle?
- Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!
- Announcement: DRCNet RSS Feeds Now Available
- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Editorial: Why Do People the Government Says Don't Exist Keep Writing Me?
- Feature: Yellow Journalism -- San Francisco Exchange Programs Scored Over Dirty Needles
- Feature: Is Addiction a Brain Disease? Biden Bill to Define It as Such is Moving on Capitol Hill
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Europe: Dutch May Join Trend and Ban Magic Mushrooms
- Law Enforcement: Illegal Search Kills Prosecution in Largest Heroin Bust in California History
- Racial Profiling: Kansas Police Agencies Honor Reporting Law Mostly in the Breach
- Southeast Asia: Probe into Thai Drug War Killings Getting Underway
- Latin America: Massive US-Mexico Counter-Drug Aid Package in the Works
- Middle East: More Drug Executions in Saudi Arabia
- Canada: Health Canada Gives Okay to Sativex for Cancer Patients
- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
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- Web Scan
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Action Item: If You're on Facebook, Your Help is Needed Today!
- Job Listing: Opportunities at the Marijuana Policy Project
- Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!
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- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Feature: Snitching in the Spotlight -- House Committee Holds Hearing on Informant Abuses
- Feature: Colombia Annouces Shift to Manual Eradication of Coca Crops
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
- Law Enforcement: FBI Lowers Bar on Past Marijuana Use by Would-Be Agents
- Search and Seizure: Arizona Supreme Court Limits Vehicle Searches
- Search and Seizure: California Supreme Court Just Says No to Seizures of Drug Buyers' Cars
- Marijuana: Yesterday Marked 70 Years of Federal Pot Prohibition
- Southwest Asia: State Department Says US Afghanistan Drug Policy Will Shift, But Not Much
- Weekly: This Week in History
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- Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!
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- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Feature: Minor Gains in Bid to Get Congress to Block Federal Raids on Medical Marijuana Patients, Providers
- Feature: DEA Raids Ten Los Angeles Dispensaries Same Day City Council Asks It To Butt Out
- Analysis: Who Voted for Medical Marijuana This Time? Breakdown by Vote, Party, and Changes from '06
- Memorial: San Francisco Drug War Activist Virginia Resner
- First Amendment: Freaked Out Feds Indict Pair for Posting Flyers Naming Snitch
- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Criminal Justice: Green Party Leaders Call For Radical Reforms
- Europe: British Cabinet Full of Former Marijuana Users
- Southeast Asia: Singapore Gives Treatment Option to Marijuana, Cocaine Users
- Australia: National Green Party Abandons Drug Legalization Position
- Europe: Dutch Police Grumble About Home Grows
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Feedback: Do You Read Drug War Chronicle?
- Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!
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- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Editorial: Why Should the Drug Czar's Office Even Exist?
- Feature: In Spreading Scandal Over White House Political Operations, House Panel Head Accuses Drug Czar's Office of Electioneering
- Feature: Pain Doctor and Patient Advocates Get a Congressional Hearing⦠Finally
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: DEA, ONDCP Take Flak on Dispensary Raids, Research Obstacles in House Committee Hearing
- Marijuana: Drug Czar Calls Pot Growers Dangerous Terrorists
- Medical Marijuana: ONDCP Claims Steve Kubby Has Changed His Mind, Kubby Says No Way!
- Drug Use: One in 12 US Workers Uses Drugs, SAMHSA Says
- Harm Reduction: Jersey City Signs Up for Needle Exchange
- Southwest Asia: Afghan Poppy Crop Sets New Record, US Ambassador Says
- Europe: Britain to Review Marijuana's Classification, Could Be Moved Back to Tougher Drug Schedule
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- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
- Web Scan
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Job Opportunity: Research and Policy Associate, Vera Institute of Justice, DC
- Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!
- Announcement: DRCNet RSS Feeds Now Available
- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Feature: Medical Marijuana -- A Progress Report
- Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "High Society: How Substance Abuse Ravages America and What to Do About It," by Joseph Califano (2007, Public Affairs Press, 270 pp., $26.95 HB)
- We Want Pardons: Petition to Save Bush's Legacy by Persuading Him to Pardon Thousands of Nonviolent Drug Offenders
- Appeal: A Victory is In the Works, With Your Help
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- This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: Rudy Giuliani Just Says No
- The Drug Debate: American Mayors Urge "A New Bottom Line" and a Public Health Approach for Drug Policy
- Marijuana: California Superior Court Upholds Santa Barbara's "Lowest Enforcement Priority" Law
- Drug Testing: Tennessee Supreme Court Holds Off-Duty Marijuana Use No Reason to Deny Workman's Comp Claim
- Barry Beyerstein: We Have Lost One of the Best
- Web Scan
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Job Opportunity: Harm Reduction Coalition, Oakland
- Job Opportunities: Marijuana Policy Project, Washington
- Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!
- Announcement: DRCNet RSS Feeds Now Available
- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Editorial: Two Good Reasons to Want to Legalize Drugs
- Feature: UN Releases Annual Drug Report, Countries Mark International Day Against Drugs With Bonfires, Propaganda Exercises, Death Sentences
- Feature: Supreme Court Uses "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" Case to Limit Students' Speech Rights
- Appeal: A Victory is In the Works, With Your Help
- Feedback: Do You Read Drug War Chronicle?
- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Incarceration: Jail and Prison Population at All-Time High (Again) -- Last Year Saw Biggest Increase Since 2000
- Marijuana: No More Automatic Arrest for Possession in Texas
- Latin America: House Votes to Shift Andean Initiative Anti-Drug Funding to Development
- Latin America: Mexico Purges Federal Police Chiefs in Drug Corruption Review
- Europe: Scottish Police Chief Says Time to Consider Prescribing Hard Drugs
- Web Scan
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Announcement: Nominations Sought for Biannual Drug Policy Awards
- Job Opportunity: Network and Systems Engineer, Marijuana Policy Project, DC
- Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!
- Announcement: DRCNet RSS Feeds Now Available
- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Feature: Move to Undo Higher Education Act Drug Provision Passes Senate Committee
- Feature: North Dakota Farmers Sue DEA Over Hemp Growing Ban
- Feature: ONDCP Kicks Off Annual Summer Marijuana Scare Campaign With Report Linking Drugs to Gangs, Violence
- Appeal: A Victory is In the Works, With Your Help
- Feedback: Do You Read Drug War Chronicle?
- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Search and Seizure: Supreme Court Rules Passengers Can Challenge Police Stops
- Medical Marijuana: Rhode Island Legislature Overrides Veto to Make Law Permanent
- Medical Marijuana: Connecticut Governor Vetoes Bill
- Methamphetamine: With Meth Labs Plunging to Near Zero, Nevada Moves to Track Cold Remedies
- Middle East: Iran Hangs Four for Drug Trafficking
- Middle East: Dubai Sentences Two More Westerners To Prison Over Infinitesimal Amounts of Drugs
- Web Scan
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!
- Announcement: DRCNet RSS Feeds Now Available
- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar