Drug War Chronicle

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.

Ecstasy adulterated with PMMA is killing people in western Canada.

Threat letters from federal prosecutors have gone out to 23 Colorado medical marijuana dispensaries that are within 1,000 feet of schools. They have 45 days to shut down or face forfeiture and possible prosecution.

The murders, raids, and arrests continue, without making any apparent difference in anything.

Here's the latest medical marijuana news from around the country. There's a whole lot going on.

Peru's drug czar has been fired for being insufficiently enthusiastic about eradicating coca crops.

The Dutch government will ban khat, a plant favored by Somali and Yemeni immigrants for its mild stimulative properties.

An increase in police deaths by gunfire last year and the bloody Ogden, Utah, drug raid that left one officer dead last week are causing some police to think again about the utility of aggressive drug raids.