Drug War Chronicle

Please tell your members of Congress there are better options than prohibition for reducing the potential a substance may have to do harm.

A New York saw an acquaintance being accosted on the street, went in to help, and was shot dead by an undercover NYPD officer trying to arrest the acquaintance.

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

A shocking new report from Human Rights Watch details how Vietnamese "drug treatment centers" don't provide treatment, but do provide abuse, torture and virtual slave labor for private companies to exploit.

The Mexican president gave his annual state of the union speech last week, but that had no impact on the killing.

Illini Bluff school teachers managed to fend off random drug testing for themselves, if not their successors, but still submitted to one drug test to get back to work.

Getting back in step with other Latin American countries, the Colombian Supreme Court has undone former Pres. Uribe's amendment recriminalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs for personal use.

It ain't decriminalization, but Arkansas is moving in the right direction when it comes to pot penalties.

We've got two weeks worth of law enforcement bad apples this week. The barrel is getting pretty full of them.

A Minnesota women is dead after a routine traffic stop escalated into a potential drug bust and attempted escape that endangered a trooper.