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Comprehensive coverage of the War on Drugs since 1997
- Editorial: Their Security Demands You Vote Repeal
- Feature: In Mexico, Now It's Calderon's Drug War
- Feature: Drug Policy Reform Group to Partner with State of New Mexico in Federally-Funded Meth Prevention Education Program
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Law Enforcement: SWAT Team Flash-Burn Grenade Assault Injures Drug Suspect
- Medical Marijuana: Vermont Bill to Expand Therapeutic Use of Cannabis Advances
- HEA: UC Berkeley Student Senate Approves Bill to Provide Scholarships for Students Denied Aid Because of Drug Convictions
- Europe: British Cannabis Confusion Continues as Policing Policies Evolve
- Europe: Moscow Mayor Calls for Harsh Drug Laws Including Death Penalty
- Canada: Vancouver Mayor Calls for Large-Scale Methamphetamine, Cocaine Maintenance Trials
- Latin America: Mexican Narco-Saint On the Move
- 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
- Feature: DEA Makes Major Move Against Los Angeles Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
- Feature: New Study Rips Canadian "Tough on Drugs" Policy, Funding
- In Memoriam: A Tribute to Aaron David Wilson, 1971-2006
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Law Enforcement: Florida County Will Pay for Manhandling Men in Errant Drug Bust Caught on Videotape
- Medical Marijuana: Bills Introduced in Michigan, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Vermont and Soon in New Mexico
- Medical Marijuana: Washington State Group Raided
- Marijuana: Decriminalization Bills Filed in Massachusetts, New Hampshire
- Treatment Not Jail: California Governor Proposes Cutting Proposition 36 Drug Treatment Funds
- Europe: Scottish Labor Politician Fights for Harm Reduction as Party Turns Hard-Line on Drugs
- 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: Newark Deserves Better From Its Leaders
- Feature: More Cops Died Directing Traffic Than Waging the Drug War Last Year
- Law Enforcement: DEA Lax on Handling Seized Cash, Audit Finds
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Law Enforcement: Faced With Rising Murder Rates, Newark and New Orleans Turn to Repressive Drug War Strategies
- Law Enforcement: Small-Time Drug Possessors No Longer Charged as Felons in Wichita -- Cops Grumble
- Law Enforcement: Woman Arrested Over Flour-Filled Condom Wins $180,000 in Suit Settlement
- Medical Marijuana: Colorado Case Will Test State's Law
- Newsbrief: White House Announces Dates, Locations for 2007 Regional Student Drug Testing Summits
- Latin America: Mexico Considering Creation of "Drug Czar" Post
- Europe: European Union Funds Dialogue With Civil Society on Drug Policies
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Web Scan
- Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!
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- Job Listing: Outreach Director Position Available at Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Washington, DC
- Job Listing: Program Coordinator, Public Health Program, OSI-Budapest
- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Editorial: Raid vs. Raid
- Feature: Afghan Opium Dilemma Sparks New Calls for Alternative Development, "Normalizing" the Poppy Crop
- Hemp: DEA Has Spent $175 Million Eradicating "Ditch Weed" Plants That Don't Get You High
- Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!
- Resource: Screening Kit Now Available for "Waiting to Inhale" Video
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Marijuana: Judge Throws Out Religious Defense in Arizona Marijuana Case, Says Defendants Lack "Sincere" Belief
- Medical Marijuana: California's Booming Market Offers Substantial Tax Revenues, Report Finds
- Drug Prohibition: Vermont Prosecutor Calls for "Peace Talks" in War on Drugs, Consideration of Public Health Approach
- Latin America: Colombian Senator Calls for Drug Legalization Debate
- Latin America: Mexican Soldiers Occupy Tijuana in Fight Against Drug Trade
- Europe: Support for Marijuana Legalization Low
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Announcement: DRCNet RSS Feeds Now Available
- Job Listing: Communications Associate, Justice Policy Institute, Washington, DC
- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- It Was the Best of Times: Drug Reform Victories and Advances in 2006
- It Was the Worst of Times: Drug Reform Defeats, Downers, and Disappointments in 2006
- Feature: Marijuana is America's Number One Cash Crop, Study Finds
- Organization News: DRCNet Hits This Week
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Harm Reduction: New Jersey Governor Signs Needle Exchange Bill
- Harm Reduction: Experts Call for Urgent Action as Fentanyl-Related Overdose Death Toll Climbs
- Latin America: Peruvian President Lauds Coca Leaf in Salad, Blasts Guerrillas
- South Pacific: Australia Wants to Ban the Bong
- Web Scan
- 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: Could It Be More Clear?
- Feature: New Jersey Legislature Approves Needle Exchange Bill, Governor Will Sign
- Feature: Clamor Grows for Freedom for Texas Marijuana Prisoner Tyrone Brown
- Feature: Belgian Bud Brouhaha Unfolds as Antwerp's First Open Marijuana Garden Gets Busted Before Beginning
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: Eddy Lepp Wins a Battle
- Southwest Asia: US Drug Czar Announces Afghanistan Will Spray Opium Poppies
- Bad Science: Congress Passes Measure Okaying Mycoherbicide Testing, But Limits It to US Labs
- Methamphetamine: DEA to Create National Lab Site Registry
- Addiction Treatment: Congress Allows Certified Physicians to Take On More Buprenorphine Patients
- East Asia: Reefer Madness Snares Taiwan Celebrities
- 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
- Drug Reform and the Democratic Congress: What's Going to Happen?
- DRCNet Book Review: "Fatal Distraction: The War on Drugs in the Age of Islamic Terror," by Arnold Trebach (2006, Unlimited Publishing, 398 pp., $19.95 PB)
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- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Sentencing: US Supreme Court Rules for Immigrants in Drug Possession Deportation Case
- Sentencing: US Supreme Court Lets Stand Pot Dealer's 55-Year Mandatory Minimum Sentence
- Pain Patients: Richard Paey Loses Appeal, Wheelchair-Bound Man to Remain in Prison
- Hemp: North Dakota Becomes First State to Legalize Industrial Production
- Medical Marijuana: County Lawsuit Challenging California Law Thrown Out
- Harm Reduction: New Jersey Needle Exchange Bill Moves to Final Floor Votes Next Week
- Law Enforcement: Rev. Al Sharpton Calls for Congressional Hearings into Police Killings of Civilians
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Job Opportunity: MPP New Hampshire Medical Marijuana Campaign
- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Feature: World Bank-UN Report Offers Grim Assessment of Afghanistan Opium Battle, Says Winning Will Take Decades, Not Years
- Feature: Medical Marijuana Gets a Hearing in Michigan
- Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!
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- Sentencing: Correctional Supervision At All-Time High With Over Seven Million People Tied to the System
- Search and Seizure: US Supreme Court Lets State Rulings Barring Drug Dog House Searches and Restricting Traffic Stop Drug Searches Stand
- Drug Raids: Cops Looking Worse and Worse as Facts Emerge in Deadly Atlanta Case
- Medical Marijuana: California Supreme Court Rules Patients Can Transport It
- Marijuana: Lowest Priority Initiatives Coming to Maine
- Legalization: Vermont States Attorney Calls for Decriminalization of All Drugs
- Marijuana: Michigan Legalization Initiative Gets State Okay to Gather Signatures for 2008
- Southeast Asia: New Thai Government to Begin Investigating 2,500 Murders Committed During Thaksin's Drug War
- Southeast Asia: Myanmar Military Turns Blind Eye to Allied Ethnic Militias' Opium Trade
- Press Release: World AIDS Day: Advocates Call to Lift Federal Ban on Syringe Exchange - Take Politics Out of HIV Prevention
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Editorial: Things That Happen Over and Over
- Feature: Students Lobby and Learn in DC as SSDP Comes to Town
- Canada: BC Business-Academic Panel Tells Government to Consider Legalizing Drugs
- Racial Profiling: It Never Went Away on the New Jersey Turnpike
- Drug Raids: Atlanta Police Kill Woman, 92, Who Shot Invading Officers
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Sentencing: Veteran Houston Judge Calls for Shorter Sentences for Drug Possession
- Marijuana: San Francisco Supervisors Approve Lowest Law Enforcement Priority Policy
- Europe: Italian Government Loosens Marijuana Possession Limits
- Europe: Give Addicts Prescription Heroin, Says British Police Commander
- Harm Reduction: Yet Another Study Finds Vancouver's Safe Injection Site Benefits Users Without Harming Community
- Europe: British Drug Expert Calls for Downgrade on LSD, Ecstasy
- Video Offer: Waiting to Inhale
- Web Scan
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Election 2006: Brief Comment on the Transfer of Power in Congress
- Election 2006: Initiatives Defeated in Colorado and Nevada, But Hundreds of Thousands Voted to Legalize Marijuana
- Election 2006: Local Marijuana Initiatives Win Across the Board
- Election 2006: South Dakota Medical Marijuana Initiative Backers Vow to Try Again After Narrow Defeat
- Election 2006: Drug Reformers in Third Party Statewide Bids Poll Single Digits, But One Wins a State House Seat in Washington
- Election 2006: Arizona Voters Take a Step Backwards on Sentencing Reform
- Election 2006: Massachusetts Voters in Four More Districts Continue the Clamor for Marijuana Law Reform
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Medical Marijuana: First New Federal Prosecution in Three Years Underway in California
- Sentencing: US Supreme Court to Try to Clean Up Post-Booker Ruling Issues
- Sentencing: Public Hearings on Illinois SMART Act Pack 'Em In