Drug War Chronicle

Los proibicionistas son aficionados a referirse a la marihuana como “embuste” – un “embuste cruel” cuando se entusiasman. Pero llamarla embuste es el verdadero embuste y lo sabemos porque los pacientes de carne y hueso paran escribiéndonos.

Prohibitionists are fond of referring to medical marijuana as a "hoax" -- a "cruel hoax," when they get excited. But calling it a hoax is the real hoax, and we know because the real live patients keep writing us.

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Are we about to see "Plan Mexico"? The US and Mexican governments are currently negotiating what could be a multi-hundred-million dollar anti-drug assistance package to help that country in its battle with wealthy and violent drug trafficking organizations.

MPP is hiring a government relations director in Washington, and petitioners and team leaders for efforts in Arizona and Michigan.

A series of recent articles in the San Francisco Chronicle highlighted the problem of dirty needles in Golden Gate Park, but seemed to blame needle exchanges for the problem. Experts beg to differ.

Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.