Drug War Chronicle

The feds continue their war on medical marijuana distribution in California, with two new DEA raids Monday and the use of asset forfeiture threats to shut down eight dispensaries in Orange County.

Half of all Americans now support marijuana legalization, according to the latest Gallup poll. There is majority support in every region of the country except the South.

California's largest doctors' group has called for marijuana legalization, making it the first in the nation to do so.

An Illinois man died in police custody after swallowing drugs during a drug arrest. The death comes only weeks after the city paid out big for letting a man die in similar circumstances last year.

NYPD narcs routintely planted drugs on innocent people, a former narc testified in court this week. That's a shocker -- not.

The feds are backing up last week's medical marijuana threats with actions -- sometimes by themselves, sometimes with the DEA working in tandem with local officials.

Every day that passes without criminal justice reform is a day that thousands who don't need to be in prison, and may have never deserved to go there, languish needlessly. Please ask your US Representative and your two US Senators to pass the National Criminal Justice Commission Act.

A Southern California federal prosecutor has signaled that the Justice Department's war on medical marijuana distribution will be extended to media that accept advertising from dispensaries.

The RAND Corporation has been caught in a political buzz saw since it dared to claim that medical marijuana dispensaries didn't cause crime to increase. Now, it has pulled those research results pending further review.

There's a bumper crop of Afghan opium this year.