Drug War Chronicle

The annual Drug Policy Alliance is accepting Letters of Inquiry -- due by April 29 -- for its 2011/2012 Promoting Policy Change grants program.

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

Skinning people alive!? Just when you thought it couldn't get any more gruesome.

Cops stealing drug money, jail guards smuggling dope, deputies helping traffickers... and narcs gone wild in Peoria. Just another week in the drug war.

Vermont is another step closer to medical marijuana dispensaries after the state Senate approved a bill Friday. But there were trade-offs.

A new study of Vancouver drug overdoses shows they have decreased dramatically in the Downtown Eastside since a safe injection site opened there.

A 24-year-old Toledo, Ohio, man is dead after firing on police who came to arrest him on drug charges.

Canadian marijuana activist Marc Emery will not be allowed to do his time in Canada because of "the seriousness of the offense" and "law enforcement concerns."

Florida legislators want to make poor people take a drug test -- and pay for it -- before they can get public benefits.

Montana's Republican legislature wanted to repeal the state's voter-approved medical marijuana law, but the Democratic governor struck it down with the veto pen.