Drug War Chronicle

An initiative that would legalize possession of up to an ounce of pot (or the harvest of up to six plants) and tax and regulate commercial sales is now gathering signatures in Colorado.

A bipartisan group of US Representatives has introduced Congress's first bill to end the federal prohibition of marijuana. Please visit our action alert web site to take action in support.

The Obama Justice Department's "clarification" of its approach to medical marijuana is causing reactions ranging from dismay and disgust to confusion among advocates. Battle lines are being drawn.

A Florida 2010 Officer of the Year goes down, so does a Georgia police officer and a Georgia jail guard.

The Mexican government appears to be going after the Zetas, which must please the cartel's rivals.

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

An initiative making adult pot possession the lowest law enforcement priority in Portland, Maine, has handed in more than enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot.

A legislative commission with a broad mandate is set to reexamine Indiana's marijuana laws, and everything is on the table.

The Mississippi Tea Party and some of its affiliates claim to want to impose a welfare drug testing program of a type already found unconstitutional by the federal judiciary.

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