Drug War Chronicle

Washington could be the next medical marijuana state to allow dispensaries after a bill to do so passed the state Senate. It now goes to the House.

A traffic stop as part of a drug investigation turned deadly in Fort Worth Monday night. Police blame the suspect, but locals want an investigation.

While the US wallows in a sea of pain pills, much of the rest of the world goes without, the International Narcotics Control Board reported Wednesday. Not to be too liberal, the INCB is also worried about the rise of designer drugs.

Marijuana decriminalization has become a hot topic in state legislatures, and legalization is rearing its head, too.

The biennial International Drug Policy Reform Conference will convene this fall in Los Angeles. Session proposals are accepted until March 18, and registration and scholarship applications for the conference will open soon.

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

Michigan gives us two spectacularly egregious cases of corrupt policing, one of which included prosecutors and a judge -- and we throw in the obligatory greedy jail guards.

Synthetic marijuana has been banned by the DEA in an emergency action. This time, they mean it.

Copenhagen is set to become the next European city with a safe injection site -- except the police don't want anyone to actually inject drugs there. A confrontation looms.

Utah is the latest state to hop on the fake pot ban bandwagon. The same law also bans mephedrone.