Drug War Chronicle

Pot decriminalization is moving in the Hawaii Senate, but not so much in the House.

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The Virginia legislature has taken a couple of giant steps toward banning fake pot. Bills have unanimously passed both the House and Senate and now need only to be reconciled before heading to the governor.

Lost in Translation: Mostafa Soliman's trials and tribulations before and after the protests began, for importing hemp oil into Egypt border on the surreal. But there's nothing funny about the possible death sentence he's looking at.

Add the Inter-American Dialogue to the ever-growing list of drug war critics. The group has just issued a new report calling for a fundamental rethinking of US drug policy.

This year's sixth drug law enforcement killing took place Friday afternoon in Charleston, West Virginia.

A pair of South Florida brothers have become the fourth and fifth people to be killed during drug law enforcement operations in the US this year.

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No cops got arrested this week for drug prohibition-related corruption, but a few got convicted, and one got sentenced.

It was a relatively quiet week in Mexico's drug wars -- only a hundred people killed -- but Ciudad Juarez continues to live up to its reputation as one of the world's deadliest cities.