Drug War Chronicle

Coca production is up in Peru for the sixth year in a row, responding to thriving demand from Brazil and Europe. Colombia is barely holding on to first place now.

A last ditch effort to block an Arkansas medical marijuana initiative from appearing on the November has failed.

StoptheDrugWar.org is holding our first teleconference -- tonight! -- featuring representatives of the three state campaigns to legalize and regulate marijuana this November, and other exciting speakers. (This posting includes updates to the agenda.)

Washington state's I-502 marijuana legalization is well-placed to emerge victorious on November 6, but it's going to be close.

We're a little more than a month from election day. Here's what's going on with the state-level initiatives.

The UN General Assembly heard a trio of Latin American leaders call for increased debate on alternatives to the war on drugs Wednesday, including hint of legalization talk.

The DEA strikes again in Los Angeles, and the feds are moving to eliminate dispensaries in downtown LA. But the pushback against the crackdown continues.

It's been a fairly quiet week on the corrupt cop front, but we've still got some Missouri jail guards in trouble, a Houston cop accused of helping to peddle Ecstasy, and a Baltimore cop who did heroin deals in the police station parking lot.

A Montana initiative that would endorse the legislature's gutting of the state's voter-approved 2004 medical marijuana law is leading in polls, but doesn't have 50%.

Another small-time drug busts ends in death as a Baltimore man dies after swallowing drugs as police moved in to arrest him.