Drug War Chronicle

"Study: Marijuana Users Less Likely to Get Injured Than Non-Users," "Police Raid Innocent Couple Because Their Son Had a Misdemeanor Marijuana Charge," "Maryland Legislation Seeks to Address Out-of-Control SWAT Raids," "Drug War Protestors Block Traffic Along Mexican Border," "Legalizing Marijuana Doesn't Mean We Have to Legalize Horrible Crimes," "Drug War Logic 101," "Sheriff Lott Gives up on Charging Michael Phelps," "A Failed Drug Strategy Isn't the Only Way DEA Wastes our Money," "Ryan Frederick Update," "Increasing Violence in Mexico is Not a Sign of Progress in the Drug War."

Bush administration holdovers are ordering raids on state-authorized medical marijuana clinics, despite President Obama's pledge to stop them. Please ask the new president and attorney general to take corrective actions sooner rather than later.

"Dope Menace" is a visually stunning, very well-informed journey to the heart of America's mid-century obsession with pulp paperbacks, especially those with drug themes. If you have an interest in drugs and popular culture, you're going to want to check this one out.

The federal budget deficit is reaching astronomical proportions, and the DEA administrator took a $123,000 plane ride to Colombia?!?!

There is majority support for legal marijuana on the West Coast, according to a new Zogby poll. The East Coast isn't far behind.

Dinamarca está a punto de convertirse en el último país europeo que va al grano y adopta el mantenimiento con heroína para los usuarios de polvo particularmente tercos.

La marihuana medicinal vuelve a tramitar en Minnesota. Esta semana un proyecto de ley fue aprobado por un comité del Senado, pese a las declaraciones alocadas de larouchistas y conservadores cristianos.

La FDA toma providencias para restringir las reglas de prescripción para analgésicos opiáceos en parches y de liberación prolongada. Eso quiere decir que podría ser más difícil para que los pacientes obtengan fármacos como OxyContin [oxicodona] y Duragesic [sistemas terapéuticos transdérmicos de fentanilo], pero todavía no se ha hecho el trato.