Drug War Chronicle

A pending cocaine warrant may have led a Miami drug suspect to flee into a canal, where he drowned.

Every two years drug policy reformers from across the United States and around the world come to the International Drug Policy Reform Conference to listen, learn, network and strategize together for change. This year the conference is in Los Angeles, in November, and StoptheDrugWar.org is a partner.

New York state has decriminalized marijuana possession, but you wouldn't know it from New York City's horrible pot bust numbers. That's about to change.

New poll numbers from California suggest a longer road ahead than marijuana legalization supporters had hoped.

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Britain's Liberal Democrats, junior partners in a coalition government with the Tories, have passed a resolution calling for decriminalization of drug possession, regulated marijuana sales, and more.

Massachusetts has reversed a thousand drug overdoses since it began its Narcan pilot program in 2007.

The Colorado Alliance for Marijuana Reform has an immediate opening for an Executive Director in its Denver office. This is a new position, designed to take advantage of current opportunities to promote marijuana policy reform in Colorado via ballot measures, legislative advocacy, and public education.

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

More cartel drug busts, more dead bodies, no apparent impact on the flow of drugs north and cash south.