Drug War Chronicle

Pioneering psychedelic pharmacologist Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin has suffered a stroke, but is expected to recover.

A fungus that blighted the Afghan opium crop this year is being blamed for heroin shortages in England that are leading to adulterated smack and even fake smack, and that's sending some users to the hospital.

What, no crooked jail guards? How about a federal judge? We've got one this week, as well as a couple of dirty narcs, and a sticky-fingered police captain.

A pot legalization bill passed the House in the US territory of the Northern Marianas Islands a couple of weeks ago, but now it has been killed in the Senate.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has said money laundering and police reforms are key to winning victory over the drug cartels. But with the jockeying already beginning for the 2012 elections, their prospects are fading.

The election of a rightist governing coalition in the Netherlands will result in the banning of foreigners from the country's famous coffee shops. Are windmills and tulips enough to get you to go?

You've got to be kidding! A terrorism training exercise at Shasta Dam in Northern California this month featured pot growers as the terrorists.

Despite facilitating perjury, prosecuting medical marijuana cases, blocking research, and sitting on rescheduling petitions, Michelle Leonhart's nomination as DEA adminstrator sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday.

Will US drug policy in Latin America change for the better or the worse after the 2010 elections? Or will it stay the same? We ask the analysts.

More Jail Guards Gone Wild! Plus a Georgia cop gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar, and three Maryland cops get nailed for their shenanigans.