Drug War Chronicle

The drug reform community was hoping for a public health person -- not a cop or soldier -- to be named as drug czar. A cop is what we got, but a cop from a liberal town. Will an (arguably) progressive police chief as drug czar be as good?

Medical marijuana is moving again in Minnesota. A bill this week passed a Senate committee, despite crazed testimony from LaRouchites and Christian conservatives.

As commander-in-chief, President Barack Obama must now oversee our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As President, he is also responsible for another war, one that has gone on much longer and been more costly in terms of dollars spent and lives lost -- the war on drugs.

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.

Apply for an internship at DRCNet for this spring (or summer), and you could spend the semester fighting the good fight!

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La Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition (RIPAC, por sus siglas en inglés), una comunidad pro marihuana medicinal de base formada por pacientes, cuidadores y militantes, busca a un director ejecutivo para encabezar su oficina en Providence.

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