Drug War Chronicle

Jailers smuggling drugs in burritos, cops planting drugs, cops doing security for drug deals, and evidence walking out of the evidence room. It's just another week of police misconduct in the drug war.

Bills targeting welfare recipients or people on unemployment insurance for drug testing are all the rage again this year.

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

Two-thirds of Canadians want marijuana legalized or decriminalized, according to a new Forum Research poll.

We're only halfway through January, and we already have four dead in drug war incidents so far this year. This week, two allegedly armed men were shot and killed by police in separate incidents in Arkansas and California.

Another small-time drug offender gets intimidated into being a snitch and pays with his life. Another family sues for damages. And another set of taxpayers gets ready to pay for letting their police do such things.

The Canadian Liberal Party has passed a non-binding resolution calling for marijuana legalization, regulation, and taxation.

The New Jersey Assembly and Senate have revised a pharmacy syringe sales bill after Gov. Christie conditionally vetoed the original version and, on Tuesday, Christie signed the new bill into law.

A Washington state shopping mall parking lot drug deal turned fatal for one of the participants when a police officer witnessed it.

Arizona's governor has decided against re-filing a lawsuit that had blocked medical marijuana dispensaries from opening in the state.