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Drug War Chronicle

Comprehensive coverage of the War on Drugs since 1997

  • Asia: Drug Users Form Regional Organization

    Drug users are organizing in Asia. After two years of meetings, the Asian Network of People who Use Drugs (ANPUD) has been created in the vein of "nothing about us without us."
  • Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy

    "Medical Marijuana Isn't a Trojan Horse, the Drug War is a Trojan Horse," "The Daily Show's Best War on Drugs Moments," "Christian Science Monitor Thinks Arresting Cancer Patients Will Stop Marijuana Legalization," "John Stossel and Bill O'Reilly Debate Drug Legalization," "Oakland Airport's Awesome Marijuana Policy," "Cartoon: The First Time I Smoked Pot," "Obama's New Medical Marijuana Statement: What Just Happened?," "Do You Know Your Rights When Dealing With Police?," "Has Anyone Seen Former Drug Czar John Walters Lately?," "Washington Post Story on Crack Sentencing Bill."
  • Latin America: Mexico Drug War Update

    For Mexico, drug prohibition is the deadly gift that keeps on giving. A thousand people have been killed in the past 40 days, and this year's death toll has now passed 6,000. And it seems to be accelerating.
  • Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories

    Pretty quiet on the corrupt cops front this week. The Google brings us the daily litany of cops get busted for assaults, sex crimes, drunk driving, and the like, but this week we could only find one cop in trouble for drug-related corruption. Not to worry -- we're quite sure this is an anomaly.