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Comprehensive coverage of the War on Drugs since 1997
- Criminal Justice: Snapshots of the Drug War
- Feature: Turning Up the Heat on New York's Rockefeller Drug Laws (and the Politicians Who Fail to Fix Them)
- Feature: Global Marijuana Marches Take Place in More Than 200 Cities Worldwide
- Book Offer: The Trebach Trilogy (updated since last e-mail)
- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Public Health: DEA Puts Fentanyl OD Death Toll at More Than a Thousand
- Medical Marijuana: Illinois Bill Killed in Senate
- Medical Marijuana: Minnesota Bill Headed For Final Vote in House, Facing Veto
- Marijuana: Wisconsin Towns Join Decriminalization Trend
- Latin America: Colombia Bans Coca Products -- Except Coca-Cola
- Europe: Vatican Registers First Drug Conviction
- Web Scan
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Announcement: Drug Policy Alliance Grants Program Deadline Coming Up Next Month
- Job Opportunity at the Harm Reduction Coalition, Oakland
- 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: Blacks, Hispanics More Likely to Be Searched at Traffic Stops -- But That Is Not Proof of Racial Profiling, Justice Department Claims
- Feature: US Sentencing Commission Announces Reduction in Crack Cocaine Sentences
- Feature: Guilty Pleas Only the Beginning in Aftermath of Atlanta "Drug Raid" Killing of 92-Year Old
- Weekly: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Pain Medicine: Dr. Hurwitz Convicted of 16 Counts in Retrial
- Resource: New Web Site Provides In-Depth Pro and Con Information on Felon Voting Issue
- Alert: Do You Live in AK, CO, CT, GA, IL, IA, KS, MD, MA, NH, NM, NY, NC, OH, OK, RI, TN, UT, VT, WA or WY? If So, We Need Your Help
- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
- Book Offer: Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug War Statistics
- Methamphetamine: Senators Feinstein and Grassley Introduce Bill to Heighten Penalties for Meth Dealers Who Flavor Their Product
- Medical Marijuana: By a Veto-Proof Margin, Rhode Island Legislature Passes Bill to Keep It
- Medical Marijuana: Minnesota Bill Passes Senate, House Version Moving Too
- Marijuana: It's That Time Again -- Marijuana Marches Set for Saturday in More Than 200 Cities Worldwide
- 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
- Open Letter: You Screwed Up the "Snitch" Story, Anderson Cooper
- Feature: Drug Czar Reluctantly Admits Cocaine Prices Have Dropped in Quietly Released Report
- Feature: Cannabis Nation Celebrates 4/20 -- Dozens of Campus Actions, Mass Arrests in Denver, Foiled in Las Vegas
- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
- Alert: Do You Live in AK, CO, CT, GA, IL, IA, KS, MD, MA, NH, NM, NY, NC, OH, OK, RI, TN, UT, VT, WA or WY? If So, We Need Your Help
- Book Offer: Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug War Statistics
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Search and Seizure: Supreme Court Takes Up Rights of Vehicle Passengers
- Southwest Asia: Drug Trade a Pillar of the Afghan Economy
- Europe: Belgium, Germany Need to Open Their Own Cannabis Coffee Shops, Says Dutch Mayor
- Latin America: As Blood Continues to Flow, Mexico's Opposition Calls for Drug Legalization -- Starting with the US
- Web Scan
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Job Opportunity: Program Officer, Health Media Project, OSI
- 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: Ignorance Leading to Suffering, Injustice and Death
- Feature: Punk Rocker's Jailing Raises Questions About Field Drug Tests
- Feature: In Britain, Labor's Decade-Long Drug War a Failure, New Report Finds
- Alert: Do You Live in AK, CO, CT, GA, IL, IA, KS, MD, MA, NH, NM, NY, NC, OH, OK, RI, TN, UT, VT, WA or WY? If So, We Need Your Help
- Book Offer: Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug War Statistics
- Pain Medicine: Judge Dismisses Most Serious Charges in Hurwitz Retrial
- Latin America: More Trouble in Peru's Coca Fields
- The Drug Debate: Republican Former Senator Calls for New Look at Drug Policies
- Sentencing: New York Assembly Passes New Rockefeller Law Reforms
- Sentencing: Maryland Passes Reform Measure for Drug Offenders
- Medical Marijuana: Feds to Retry Ed Rosenthal in Futile Prosecution
- Salvia Divinorum: Vermont Town Gets Fight Over Sales Ban
- Europe: British Junior Docs Call for Marijuana-Based Medicine Prescriptions
- Media: The Drug Truth Network on YouTube
- 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
- Feature: The War on Salvia Divinorum Heats Up
- Feature: Oregon's Messy Medical Marijuana Statehouse Politics
- Book Offer: Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug War Statistics
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Marijuana: After Denver Votes to Legalize It, Cops Arrest Even More
- Medical Marijuana: Bill to Make Rhode Island Law Permanent Passes House, Senate Committees
- Medical Marijuana: Minnesota Bill Passes Senate Committee
- Medical Marijuana: California Begins Taxing Dispensaries
- Asia: China Sets Up Drug User Data Bank
- Europe: French Anti-Globalist Activist and Presidential Candidate Says Legalize Marijuana
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Job Opportunity: Two Openings at Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
- 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: Things Are Gradually Moving in the Right Direction
- Feature: Among Architects, a Prison Design Boycott Gains Steam
- Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations," by Peter Andreas and Ethan Nadelmann. (2006, Oxford University Press, 333 pp., $29.95 HB)
- Book Offer: Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug War Statistics
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: New Mexico Becomes Twelfth State to Approve It
- Methamphetamine: Feds Make First Cold Medicine Bust Under Combat Meth Act
- Harm Reduction: New Mexico Governor Signs Overdose Death Reduction Measure
- Voting Rights: Florida Clemency Board Votes to Restore to Most Felons
- The Presidency: Past Drug Use Would Disqualify Nominee for Only 19% of Americans, Poll Finds
- Methamphetamine: Nevada Governor's Working Group Issues Preliminary Report
- Information: NIDA Drug Library Closed Due to Budget Woes
- Web Scan
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!
- Announcement: DRCNet RSS Feeds Now Available
- Three Job Openings at the Harm Reduction Coalition, NY and CA
- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Feature: Drugs Should Be Classified According to Their Harms, British Experts Say -- And They're Not Now
- Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "Beat the Heat: How to Handle Encounters With Law Enforcement," by Katya Komisaruk (2003, AK Press, 192 pp., $16.00 PB)
- Book Offer: Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug War Statistics
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Law Enforcement: Atlanta Police Change Policies in Wake of Fatal Drug Raid
- Law Enforcement: The Drug War Dominates Grand Jury Action in One Ohio County
- Marijuana: Cincinnati City Council Votes to Extend Tough Ordinance
- Medical Marijuana: New Hampshire Bill Narrowly Defeated
- Marijuana: Bob Barr to Lobby for Marijuana Policy Project
- South America: Bolivia Moves to Block Coca Crop Expansion
- Middle East: Marijuana Not Kosher for Passover, Says Green Leaf Party
- 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
- Feature: Prison Rape and the War on Drugs
- Feature: "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" Free Speech Case Goes to the Supreme Court
- Feature: Reefer Madness Strikes a Leading British Newspaper
- Book Offer: Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug War Statistics
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: Minnesota Bill Approved By Second House Panel
- The Candy Counter: Georgia Set to Ban Sales of Marijuana-Flavored Lollipops to Kids
- Europe: Clamor for Licit Medicinal Afghan Opium Grows Among British MPs
- Europe: Heroin Substitute Buprenorphine Now Available in Scotland
- Web Scan
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!
- Announcement: DRCNet RSS Feeds Now Available
- Job Opportunities: PreventionWorks, Washington, DC
- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Book Offer: Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug War Statistics
- Feature: Medical Marijuana Bill Passes New Mexico Legislature, Awaits Governor's Signature
- Feature: Trouble Hits in Peru This Week Over Coca Eradication
- Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics: A Critical Analysis of Claims Made by the Office of National Drug Control Policy," by Matthew Robinson and Renee Scherlen (2007, State University of New York Press, 268 pp., $27)
- Quote of the Week: Sen. Jim Webb on the Incarceration Crisis
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: Federal Appeals Court Rules Angel Raich Can Be Prosecuted, Even If Only Marijuana Keeps Her Alive
- Sentencing: Tyrone Brown is a Free Man!
- Harm Reduction: Los Angeles County Okays Needle Exchange Program
- Medical Marijuana: Federal Judge Dismisses Charges Against Ed Rosenthal
- Search and Seizure: Utah Supreme Court Holds Mere Odor of Marijuana Not Enough for a Warrantless Home Search
- Medical Marijuana: Minnesota Bill Approved by House Committee
- Marijuana: Grassroots Protest in Small Town Wisconsin After Drug Bust
- Australia: NSW Greens' Call to Decriminalize Drug Possession Causes Pre-Election Stir
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!
- Announcement: DRCNet RSS Feeds Now Available
- Job Listings: MPP, Minneapolis and DC
- Job Listing: Syringe Exchange, Harm Reduction Coalition, California
- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Chronicle on the Scene Feature: In Peru, the Coca Growers' Movement Gathers Strength, But Faces Hurdles
- Feature: Medical Marijuana Goes Mainstream in the States
- This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Maryland: Drug Reform Efforts Picking Up in the Terrapin State
- Marijuana: Wisconsin's Dane County (Madison) Will No Longer Prosecute Simple Possession
- Latin America: Brazilian Governor Says Legalize Drugs to Fight Crime
- Europe: British Panel Calls for Complete Drug Law Overhaul
- Europe: Candidate's Remarks Open Window on Scottish Labor Party Drug Policy Split
- Southwest Asia: 2007 Afghan Opium Crop Could Be Record-Breaker, UN Predicts
- Canada: Afghan Opium Should Be Bought Up and Marketed Worldwide, Defense Think Tank Says
- Southwest Asia: Opium -- Not Just for Afghanistan Anymore?
- Europe: Dutch Left Greens Open Pro-Marijuana Web Site
- 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