Drug War Chronicle

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

The pain relief movement has lost a true hero. Siobhan Reynolds, founder of the Pain Relief Network and a tireless advocate for the cause, was killed in a plane crash in Ohio on Christmas Eve day.

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2011 is wrapping up as slightly less bloody than 2010 in Mexico's plague of prohibition-related violence, but the death toll this year is still well above 10,000.

More restrictions on medical marijuana, more California dispensaries close, more Montana dispensary operators head for federal prison, and California activists file an initiative to regulate and tax the industry at the state level.

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

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson is set to give up on the Republicans and seek the Libertarian Party presidential nomination, Politico.com is reporting.

There's big problems in the Nassau County, Florida, sheriff's office, and more drug prohibition-related police misconduct as well.

Montreal wants four safe injection sites for hard drug users. The city's public health agency and mayor have given the okay, but now they need provincial funding and federal approval.

A North Carolina law aimed at heroin traffickers is rolling up people with pain pills and sending them to prison for a long, long time.