Nikki Haley (image via Wikimedia)
SC Gov. Haley Recants on Unemployed Drug Use
Caught in a glaring lie about drug use among South Carolina job seekers, Gov. Nikki Haley is forced to concede she was full of it.
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pile-of-cash_34.jpgThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
An Oklahoma police chief gets caught with meth and weed, a New Mexico cop goes to prison for blowing up an FBI investigation, and a Colorado deputy is being looked at for some missing evidence money. -
arrest-image_1.jpgA Drug Arrest Every 19 Seconds, Says Latest US Data [FEATURE]
The FBI's annual Uniform Crime Report finds that drug arrests are stabilizing, but at near record levels. More than 1.6 million people got busted for drugs last year, more than half of them for pot. -
Pot leaf_17.jpgWA State Voters Split on Marijuana Legalization
Recent Washington state marijuana legalization polls have produced varying results. What does that mean for I-502? -
downtown_seattle.jpgWA State Dems Endorse Marijuana Legalization
Washington's I-502 legalization initiative has picked up the support of the state's Democratic Party. -
The Las Vegas Metro Police K-9 unit is part of the state and federal Interdiction Team (Image: LVMPD)Two More Drug War Deaths
Two more drug war deaths this week, and these ones were bizarre. -
Linn State Technical CollegeACLU Blocks Missouri College Drug Testing
A Missouri technical college's plan to force students to take suspicionless drug tests is on hold after the ACLU of Eastern Missouri filed suit and won a temporary restraining order. -
Thank You for Helping Us Reach Issue #700!
Thank you for helping StoptheDrugWar.org publish 700 issues of Drug War Chronicle! The best news is yet to come. -
uphill climb for reform this yearDrug Policy Prospects on Capitol Hill This Year [FEATURE]
Between now and the seating of a new Congress after the 2012 elections, drug reform is going to be a tough slog on Capitol Hill. But that doesn't mean reformers are going away, or that there aren't battles to be fought and won. -
Hawaii teachers won't have to provide these to keep their jobs. (image via Wikimedia)Hawaii Teachers Defeat Random Drug Testing
The Hawaii teachers' union has finally, definitively fended off state demands that it accept random suspicionless drug testing of teachers.