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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Ah, the crooked prison guards are back. We missed them last week, but we knew they wouldn't stay away long.
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Fake pot goes under many brand names. Spice is one. (image via wikimedia.org)More States Go After Synthetic Drugs
When confronted with new intoxicating substances, legislators' prohibitionist reflexes kick in. Just ask fake pot and "bath salts" users. -
capitolsenateside_0.jpgALERT: Marijuana Legalization Bill in Congress!
A bipartisan group of US Representatives has introduced Congress's first marijuana legalization bill. Please visit our action alert web site to take action in support. -
marijuana fields just before they are burned (image via wikimedia.org)Lebanese Police Destroying Marijuana Fields Attacked
The Lebanese police's annual marijuana eradication campaign in the Bekaa Valley got off with a bang Monday, as police were attacked at least twice. -
lime powder container (used traditionally in coca chewing), 1st-7th-century, Colombia (Quimbaya), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYBolivia to Quit United Nations Drug Convention Over Coca
We may be about to see the first defection from the legal backbone of global drug prohibition, the 1961 UN Convention on Single Drugs. Bolivia is ready to dump it, at least temporarily, over its classification of coca as an illicit drug. -
For the first time, a bill to free the weed is before Congress. (image via Wikimedia.org)Historic Bill to End Federal Marijuana Prohibition Introduced [FEATURE]
A bill that would end federal marijuana prohibition is now before Congress. -
parthenon_36.gifThis Week in History
Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past. -
The profits of prohibition fuel the violence in Mexico. (Image via Wikimedia.org)Mexico Drug War Update
Last Wednesday was a bloody day in Nuevo Leon, and last weekend was a bloody one in Michoacan. And those are just the high-lights. -
There will be no drug testing of residents at Lake Parc Place or any other CHA properties. (Image courtesy CHA)CHA Drops Plan to Drug Test Public Housing Residents
The Chicago Housing Authority's proposal to require suspicionless drug tests for public housing residents excited lots of opposition. Now it's dead. -
pile-of-cash_22.jpgThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
It never ends, does it? Another week, another set of crooked cops. At least this week, the jail and prison guards managed to stay out of the news.