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  • Jose Guerena survived tours of duty in Iran and Afghanistan, but not his encounter with a Tucson, AZ SWAT team.
    Jose Guerena survived tours of duty in Iran and Afghanistan, but not his encounter with a Tucson, AZ SWAT team.

    Victims of Deadly Tucson SWAT Raid Begin Legal Action

    The family of Jose Guerena, the former Marine gunned down in his own home by an invading Arizona SWAT team, is laying the legal groundwork for a massive lawsuit.
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    This Week in History

    Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.
  • Rick Perry wants drones to overfly the US-Mexico border to surveil the drug traffic, but they already are. (image via Wikimedia)
    Rick Perry wants drones to overfly the US-Mexico border to surveil the drug traffic, but they already are. (image via Wikimedia)

    Perry, Romney Burnish Drug Warrior Credentials

    Two of the leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination had comments related to drug policy this week, and it wasn't pretty.
  • No school in Glaston, Illinois, this week. Teachers struck rather than submit to random drug tests. (Image: IBSD 327)
    No school in Glaston, Illinois, this week. Teachers struck rather than submit to random drug tests. (Image: IBSD 327)

    IL School District Teachers Strike Over Drug Testing

    An Illinois school board demands that teachers submit to mandatory random drug testing even as it concedes there is no need for it. As a result, instead of teachers welcoming students to school this week, they're hitting the picket line.
  • Poor Alabamians who use drugs would be ineligible for Medicaid under a proposed law. (image via Wikimedia)
    Poor Alabamians who use drugs would be ineligible for Medicaid under a proposed law. (image via Wikimedia)

    Alabama Bill Would Drug Test Medicaid Recipients

    A proposed Alabama law would require Medicaid beneficiaries to take random suspicionless drug tests -- and pay for them -- and would throw them off the rolls for at least a year if they test positive.
  • Athens Cycle Tour (cityofathens.gr)
    Athens Cycle Tour (cityofathens.gr)

    Greek Government Proposes Drug Decriminalization

    The Greek government has submitted a bill that would decriminalize drug possession in most circumstances and provide for drug treatment instead of jail for addicts.
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