Drug War Chronicle

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

Florida's Pinellas County has passed a tough new paraphernalia ordinance that lowers the standard of proof necessary to win a sales conviction.

Dr. William Hurwitz will remain in prison pending a new trial after a federal judge decided he was a flight risk.

The mayor of the Mexican border city of Tijuana has ordered an investigation of all 2,300 city police for links to the drug trade, but there is more to the mayor's move than meets the eye.

Locked in a tight race, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is making methamphetamine a campaign issue.

New Zealand's drug testing in sports regime is catching hardly anyone using banned substances, and most of those it does catch were just smoking marijuana.

A tawdry tale out of Tulsa tops the corrupt cops stories this week.