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  • Tax dollars go up in smoke as DEA pays an Amtrak snitch nearly a million bucks for freely available passenger information.
    Tax dollars go up in smoke as DEA pays an Amtrak snitch nearly a million bucks for freely available passenger information.

    Chronicle AM -- August 12, 2014

    Everybody must be at the beach, because it's pretty quiet on the drug reform front. But Philly faces a class action lawsuit over asset forfeiture, the DEA gets caught wasting taxpayer money, and there's marijuana policy action down South America way.
  • Poster for last Saturday's Hemp Parade (Hanfparade) in Berlin.
    Poster for last Saturday's Hemp Parade (Hanfparade) in Berlin.

    Chronicle AM -- August 11, 2014

    Germans march for marijuana, Washington state takes in a million in taxes from the first month of pot sales, New Mexico local decriminalization initiatives struggle to make the ballot, Central Florida cops make a bunch of small-time drug busts, a new poll has some old results on the success of the drug war, and more.
  • Britain will provide free foil for heroin smokers in a bid to reduce injecting the drug. (wikimedia.org)
    Britain will provide free foil for heroin smokers in a bid to reduce injecting the drug. (wikimedia.org)

    Chronicle AM -- August 8, 2014

    Things get slow in the dog days of summer, but there's still news from the legal marijuana states, California continues to grapple with regulating medical marijuana, and a couple of items from Britain suggest change could be in the air there.
  • Anchorage (Frank K. via Wikimedia)
    Anchorage (Frank K. via Wikimedia)

    Chronicle AM -- August 7, 2014

    The legalization debate packed 'em in in Anchorage, California's medical marijuana regulation bill is going down to the wire, Massachusetts has a new substance abuse law, China executes two for drugs, and more.
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    Medical Marijuana Update

    Medical marijuana bills pick up some support in Congress, Maryland and Minnesota issue draft rules, California continues to be a battleground, and more.
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    This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories

    A Chicago cop helps his daughter-in-law grow medical marijuana for her cancer-stricken child, then rats her out; a Miami narc gets nailed for helping pot growers, a Baltimore cop's pill habit gets the best of him, a Colorado probation officer gets caught with coke and crack, and a Seattle-are deputy goes to jail for pimping his wife. Just another week of drug-related law enforcement corruption.
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    Chronicle AM -- August 6, 2014

    DC will vote on legalizing marijuana possession and cultivation, two more Michigan towns vote to decriminalize, Maine's governor unveils a plan to force people with drug felonies to undergo drug tests before getting welfare benefits, an Austrian marijuana legalization initiative gets underway, and more.