Drug War Chronicle

The DEA has responded to the latest synthetic drug panic in the only way it knows how -- by enacting bans. This time it's the "bath salts" drugs under attack.

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.

The new Florida law require welfare applicants to pass a drug test has now been challenged in federal court.

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.