Chronicle Archive
Comprehensive coverage of the War on Drugs since 1997
- Drug Reform and Drug Reformers in the 2006 Elections -- The List
- Feature: Colorado and Nevada to Vote on Marijuana Legalization Measures Tuesday
- Feature: Alabama Drug Reformer Loretta Nall Accidentally Becomes the "Cleavage" Candidate
- Video Offer: Waiting to Inhale
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Medical Marijuana: Patients Challenge DEA Head at San Diego Conference, Seven Arrested
- Marijuana: Massachusetts Gubernatorial Candidate Favors Legalization, Just Not During His Term
- Higher Education: Federal Court Dismisses Challenge to HEA Drug Provision
- Middle East: After Lebanon War, Israeli Cannabis Prices Spike
- South Pacific: Sympathy for Marijuana Growers in Vanuatu
- Africa: As Marijuana Growing Expands, Swaziland Begins to Ponder Hemp
- Web Scan
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Editorial: A Grim Anniversary
- Feature: Lowest Law Enforcement Priority Marijuana Initiatives Face the Voters in Five Cities
- Feature: Nail-Biting Time for South Dakota's Medical Marijuana Initiative
- Feature: The Next Prohibition? Poll Finds Nearly Half of Americans Favor Banning Cigarettes
- Video Offer: Waiting to Inhale
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Law Enforcement: Lawsuit Shines Light on Florida Police Department's Shady Forfeiture Practice
- Canada: Supreme Court Overturns Conviction of Medical Marijuana Activist
- Europe: Belgian MP Joins Growing Cannabis Social Club Movement
- Middle East: In Battle Over Criminalizing Bongs, Israeli Justice Department Unit Calls for End to Persecuting Marijuana Users
- Europe: Spanish Medical Marijuana Group Goes Public with "Therapeutic Cannabis Bank"
- Web Scan
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Editorial: Drug Busts as Taxpayer-Funded Media Lobbying/Electioneering Campaigns
- Feature: Afghanistan Throws Out Group Urging Legal Opium -- Not
- Feature: Prominent Drug Reformers Run for Statewide Office in Connecticut, Maryland
- DRCNet Video Review: "Waiting to Inhale: Marijuana, Medicine, and the Law," Produced and Directed by Jed Riffe
- Video Offer: Waiting to Inhale
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Drug Raids: Michigan Judge Rules Flint Rave Raid Arrests Unconstitutional
- Harm Reduction: New Jersey Needle Exchange, Needle Access Bills Advance
- Sentencing: Louisiana Supreme Court Hears Case of Heroin Lifers
- Europe: Italian Government Gives Approval for Marijuana Derivatives for Pain Control
- Canada: Supreme Court Rejects Random Drug Tests of Probationers
- Europe: Dutch Appeals Court Rules Medical Marijuana Patient Can Grow His Own
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Feature: Pain Patients, Pain Contracts, and the War on Drugs
- Feature: Reefer and Religion -- Nevada Clergy Embrace Marijuana Legalization
- Feature: Justice Department Report Shows Drug Use Among Prisoners Holding Steady, But Emphasizes Increased Methamphetamine Use
- Video Offer: Waiting to Inhale
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Pain Medicine: Dr. Hurwitz Denied Bail, to Sit in Prison Pending New Trial
- Paraphernalia: Florida County Approves Tough New Ordinance
- Methamphetamine: Georgia Governor Makes It Campaign Issue, Seeks to Double State Task Force
- Latin America: Tijuana Mayor Vows to Investigate Entire Police Force for Links to Drug Trade
- South Pacific: New Zealand Sports Drug Tests Snag Mainly Marijuana Smokers
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Editorial: Do We Really Want to Help Kids Find the Drug Dealers?
- Feature: More California Medical Marijuana Raids: The New Status Quo?
- Feature: Cases of Immigrants Deported for Minor Drug Offenses Heard at US Supreme Court This Week
- Book Review: "De los Maras a los Zetas: Los secretos del narcotrafico, de Colombia a Chicago" by Jorge Fernandez Menendez and Victor Ronquillo (Mexico City: Editorial Grijalbo, 2006, 290 pp. PB)
- Documentary: Waiting to Inhale
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Sentencing: Federal Bill to Create Criminal Drug Dealer Registry Introduced
- Sentencing: California Governor Signs Bill To Shorten Parole for Offenders Who Take Drug Treatment
- Hemp: California Governor Vetoes Industrial Hemp Bill
- Sentencing: Arizona Legislative Initiative Would Roll Back Reforms When It Comes to Methamphetamine Offenders
- Marijuana: Idaho High Court Rules Officials Can't Block Legalization Initiative Just Because They Don't Like It
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Documentary: Waiting to Inhale
- Feature: Nevada Marijuana Initiative Organizers See Tight But Winnable Race Going Into Final Stretch
- Feature: Colorado Marijuana Legalization Initiative Trails, But the Fight Is On
- Book Review: "Pot Politics: Marijuana and the Costs of Prohibition," Mitchell Earleywine, ed. (Oxford University Press, $45.00 HB)
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Southwest Asia: Leading Scholar Takes Senate Foreign Relations Committee to School on Afghan Drug Trade
- Sentencing: No Retroactive Relief for Rockefeller Drug Law Prisoners, New York Appeals Court Rules
- Hemp: North Carolina Governor Signs Bill to Study Industrial Use
- Marijuana: Arkansas Town Joins List of Locales With Lowest Law Enforcement Priority Initiatives This November
- Web Scan
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Part-Time Opportunity: Interviewers, NY State's Expanded Syringe Access Program
- Take a Look: Extensive New Daily News, Commentary and More on DRCNet
- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
- Editorial: Now They Care About What's Right?
- Feature: Drug Arrests Hit Another Record High, More than 786,000 Marijuana Arrests Alone in 2005
- Feature: House Votes to Require School Districts to Allow Random, Warrantless Mass Search Policies
- Feature: US Uses Annual Drug Certification Report to Attack Bolivia, Venezuela
- Take a Look: Extensive New Daily News, Commentary and More on DRCNet
- Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Law Enforcement: Cops Used Hidden High-Tech Surveillance on Kansas Rock Festival-Goers
- Medical Marijuana: Rhode Island Program Begins to Kick In
- Law Enforcement: Jackson, Mississippi's Mad Mayor Melton Indicted for Drug Enforcement Crimes
- Europe: London Police More Likely to Arrest Blacks Than Whites for Marijuana Possession
- Southwest Asia: Proposal for Turning Afghan Opium Into Legal Morphine Gains Support
- Web Scan
- Weekly: This Week in History
- Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar