Chronicle Archive
Comprehensive coverage of the War on Drugs since 1997
- Feature: Is Mexico's Drug War "Calderón's Iraq"?
- Chronicle Book Review: "Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom," by Andy Letcher (2007, Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers, 360 pp, $25.95 HB.)
- Law Enforcement: Almost No Drug Warrants in Atlanta Since Police Gunned Down Old Woman in Botched Drug Raid
- Feedback: Do You Read Drug War Chronicle?
- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
- Conference: Drug Policy Alliance, New Orleans, December 2007
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Sentencing: Supreme Court to Decide Crack Sentencing Case
- Medical Marijuana: New York Bill Passes General Assembly, But Now Senate Balks
- Press Release: Governor Signs Texas' First Needle Exchange Bill into Law
- Good-Bye: One Woman Drug War Victim Dies, Another is About To
- South Pacific: Northern Mariana Islands in Tizzy Over Marijuana Decriminalization Proposal
- Middle East: Dubai Customs Busts Canadian UN Afghan Drug Worker
- Web Scan
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Job Opportunities: Policy Researcher and State Strategies Coordinator, ACLU Drug Law Reform Project
- Job Opportunity: IT Director, 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: Congress Moves to End Ban on DC Needle Exchange Funding
- Feature: Canadian Mom Searching for Missing Daughter Denied Entry to US Over 21-Year-Old Drug Conviction
- Feature: Fireworks at Book Forum in Washington as "Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug War Statistics" Authors Confront ONDCP Official
- Feedback: Do You Read Drug War Chronicle?
- Book Offer: Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug War Statistics
- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
- This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: Rhode Island Governor Vetoes Bill, Override Expected
- Medical Marijuana: Connecticut Bill Passes Legislature
- Elected Officials: Baltimore Councilman Calls for Drug Legalization
- Marijuana: Mendocino County Supervisors Say Legalize It
- Racial Profiling: It's Getting Worse in Missouri
- Death Penalty: Two More Drug Offenders Sentenced in Vietnam, One Executed in Saudi Arabia
- Latin America: Colombia Coca Production Up Again Despite Massive Eradication Efforts
- Middle East: Don't Take Your Doobies to Dubai
- Web Scan
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Job Opportunities: Director of Federal Policies and Web Developer, MPP, Washington
- Job Opportunity: Executive Director, Project SAFE, Philadelphia
- Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!
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- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Feature: Battle Royal Looms as Canadian Government Set to Unveil Tough Anti-Drug Strategy
- Feature: Ed Rosenthal Convicted Again in Pyrrhic Victory for Feds
- Appeal and Book Offer: "Beat the Heat" Know Your Rights and Legal System Guidebook
- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
- DRCNet Member Offer: The Trebach Trilogy
- DRCNet Member Offer: Stand Up for Freedom with 4th Amendment T-shirts from Flex Your Rights
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Search and Seizure: Minnesota Supreme Court Okays Drug Dog Sniff Outside Apartment Door
- Search and Seizure: California Federal Court Throws Out Warrantless Cell Phone Searches
- Law Enforcement: US Senate Passes Bill to Restore Drug Task Force Grants
- Medical Marijuana: Rhode Island Bill Passes With Veto-Proof Majorities
- Southeast Asia: More Death Sentences for Drug Offenses
- Europe: New Restrictions on Some Dutch Cannabis Coffee Shops
- Web Scan: People We Know
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!
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- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Editorial: Presidents and Popes Alike Should Remember the Lessons of History on Prohibition
- Feature: Border Blues -- Canada, US Both Bar People Who Used Drugs -- Ever
- Feature: With UMass Researcher One Decision Away From Approval to Grow Marijuana, Supporters Turn Up the Heat on the DEA
- In Memoriam: Medical Marijuana Researcher, Advocate Dr. Tod Mikuriya Dead at 73
- DRCNet Member Offer: Stand Up for Freedom with 4th Amendment T-shirts from Flex Your Rights
- DRCNet Member Offer: The Trebach Trilogy
- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: Rhode Island Bill Awaits Expected Veto, Override
- Medical Marijuana: Connecticut Bill Passes House, Heads for Senate
- Medical Marijuana: MPP, Michigan Activists Launch Initiative Campaign
- Medical Marijuana: Minnesota Bill Dies Without House Vote as Legislature Adjourns
- Presidential Politics: Democrat Mike Gravel is Latest to Say Legalize
- Latin America: UN Drug Office Blames Central American Crime and Violence on Drugs, Not Prohibition
- Middle East: Opium Poppies Flower Again in Iraq
- Europe: Finnish Left Party's Youth Organization Calls for Marijuana Legalization
- Web Scan
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Job Opportunity: Program Manager, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, Near Washington
- Job Opportunity: Web Administrator, 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
- Feature: US Sentencing Commission Again Calls on Congress to Fix Crack-Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity
- Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "The Heroin Solution" by Arnold Trebach (2nd ed., 2006, Unlimited Publishing, 330 pp., $19.99 pb.)
- DRCNet Member Offer: Stand Up for Freedom with 4th Amendment T-shirts from Flex Your Rights
- DRCNet Member Offer: The Trebach Trilogy
- Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Sentencing: Maryland Governor Vetoes Bill To Give Two-Time Drug Sales Offenders Parole Eligibility
- Pregnancy: New Mexico Supreme Court Strikes Down Law Criminalizing Drug Use By Mothers-To-Be
- Hemp: California Bill Passes Assembly
- Sentencing: Nevada Supreme Court Justices Ask Legislature for More Discretion, More Funding for Drug Courts
- Latin America: Top Anti-Drug Official Gunned Down in Mexico City
- Europe: Hungarian Global Marijuana Marchers Sue Over Blocked Demonstration
- Australia: "Super Dope" Marijuana Scare Prompts Threats to Ban Bongs
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!
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- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- 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!
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- 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