Drug War Chronicle

Our soldiers under insurgent threat in Baghdad seem more clear-headed than our police serving routine search warrants here at home.

While the US using tried-and-failed eradication schemes on the Afghan opium trade, others including the UN and World Bank are calling for smarter alternative development. Others are going even further.

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

The DEA has spent $175 million in the past two decades to eradicate "ditch weed" plants that don't get anybody high. Your tax dollars at work.

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You can organize and get the word out by hosting a screening -- small or large -- of this important video about medical marijuana.

The California medical marijuana market could be a substantial source of tax revenues for the state, according to a new study, but it isn't happening yet.

A Vermont prosecutor is calling for "peace talks" in the war on drugs. It is time to debate alternative approaches, he says.