Drug War Chronicle

It's no longer a crime to grow a pot plant on your balcony in Italy, that country's high court has ruled.

An undercover drug operation in suburban Chicago gone "out of control" led to a shoot-out and car chase in a strip mall parking lot and generated the 31st drug law enforcement killing of the year.

A judge's ruling Thursday is a "partial victory" for medical marijuana in Montana, advocates said. But this is by no means the end of the fight.

A lot of federal crack prisoners are going to get out early after the US Sentencing Commission made sentencing guideline amendments reducing crack sentences retroactive. That's a big deal.

There is a new effort underway to put a pot legalization initiative on the ballot in Washington state next year.

Musician Jimmy Tebeau bought a rural Missouri property and turned into a concert venue called Camp Zoe. Now, the feds want to seize it and jail Tebeau over allegations of drug use and sales at concerts there.

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

Mexico's president feels "misunderstood" about his bloody drug war, but the killings continue despite his hurt feelings.

Signature-gathering is about to get underway for an effort to overturn or suspend Montana's harsh new medical marijuana law.

New Zealand's marijuana reform community has seen one of its leading lights jailed for eight months, but that never stopped Dakta Green before.