Drug War Chronicle

Probablemente, el libro "<em>Drugs in Afghanistan: Opium, Outlaws, and Scorpion Tales</em>" del especialista en reducción de la demanda de drogas afganas de las Naciones Unidas, David Macdonald, es la mirada más profunda y matizada al rol de las drogas en Afganistán que ya fue publicado.

El programa de marihuana medicinal del Oregón tiene 10 años y procede, pero parece que se volverá un territorio en disputa el próximo año, ya que una iniciativa fue presentada para revocarlo y otras para expandirlo.

Impuestos sobre las drogas, pérdida de ayuda, sentencias mínimas obligatorias, procesos contra la terapia del dolor, allanamientos antidrogas inadvertidos, fumigación, confiscación, penas de muerte – si todo vale en la guerra a las drogas, ¿entonces adónde va a terminar?

Drug taxes, loss of aid, mandatory minimums, pain prosecutions, no-knock drug raids, fumigation, forfeiture, death penalties -- If anything goes in the drug war, then where does it end?

The resort to the death penalty for drug offenders continues in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, with two executed in Iran last week and six sentenced to death in Vietnam.

The Tennessee Court of Appeals has thrown out the state's illicit drug tax. The state will appeal, and plans to continue assessing the tax in the meanwhile.

Georgia's Fulton County (Atlanta) district attorney has some odd ideas about how asset forfeiture funds should be spent, an audit of his books has found.

A high-level DEA official has again linked the illegal drug trade to the funding of terrorist organizations, but failed to note the role of drug prohibition.

The Colombian government has offered its strongest criticism yet of US-backed aerial spraying of coca crops, saying it has been a failure.

The Women's Christian Temperance Union lives -- barely -- and is meeting this week in Indianapolis to continue the battle against demon run and its contemporary counterparts.