Drug War Chronicle

Los antecedentes de algunas selecciones fundamentales de Obama – Biden, Emanuel, Holder – en la lucha contra la droga suscitan gemidos y rechinamientos entre algunos reformadores de las políticas de drogas, pero otros dan a entender que es mejor seguir trabajando en silencio en pro del progreso que obsesionarse con el pasado.

Pocos días después de las elecciones nacionales, unos 300 activistas pro reforma de las políticas de marihuana de Colorado no perdieron tiempo para ir al grano cuando se reunieron en Denver para el Seminario y Campamiento de Reforma de las Políticas de Marihuana de Colorado.

Los sucesos y citas de nota de los eventos de las políticas de drogas de esta semana de los años anteriores.

La conducta británica para con los consumidores y vendedores de drogas y la reforma de las políticas de drogas va fuera de camino, de acuerdo con una nueva encuesta.

Dutch pot politics is heating up again, with mayors looking for a way to solve the "backdoor problem" with their coffee shops, and some in the conservative government wanting to see the coffee shops just go away.

As his term comes to a close, President George Bush has begun to exercise his pardon power, and a handful of drug offenders have benefited.

An Indiana prosecutor gets slapped again over shady asset forfeiture practices, a Texas trooper gets caught with the coke, and so does a North Carolina cop.

Campus drug reform activists from around the country -- and beyond -- gathered last weekend in College Park, Maryland, for SSDP's 10th annual international conference. They lobbied, they listened, they learned, and now they're heading back home well-energized to apply the lessons they learned.

Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos was interested in police socialization, so he joined the Baltimore PD and hit the mean streets of the city's Eastern District for more than a year as a uniformed officer. The book he wrote based on his experiences is an illuminating gem.

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