Drug War Chronicle

Relations between the US and Bolivia continue to worsen. Late last week, Bolivia barred DEA surveillance planes from overflying the country, and on Saturday, President Morales scorned US anti-drug policy.

Drug reform hasn't been much of an issue in the presidential campaign, but there are differences between the major party candidates -- and much larger differences between them and a trio of minor party candidates with solidly radical drug reform proposals. For whom to vote?

A decade ago, Washington voters approved a medical marijuana law. Now, the state Department of Health has set quantity limits.

A cocaine shortage is leading to a wave of killings in Cincinnati. Local officials are close to making the link between prohibition and the violence, but they're not there yet.

In 2002, the Office of National Drug Control Policy set goals of reducing marijuana and overall drug use. Despite artful manipulation of the numbers, ONDCP has failed at its stated goal, but it has managed to drive into treatment thousands of pot smokers who didn't need it.

Drug testing violates personal privacy. Now, at least one widely-used drug testing kit has been proven to be a scam too.

"Dying to Get High," by sociologists Wendy Chapkis and Richard Webb, is a groundbreaking work that provides an in-depth portrait of one of the country's most well-known medical marijuana collectives.

“<em>Dying to Get High</em>” [Muriendo para colocarse] de los sociólogos Wendy Chapkis y Richard Webb es una obra innovadora que proporciona un retrato minucioso de uno de los colectivos pro marihuana medicinal más famosos del país.

Este mes los canadienses acuden a las urnas en las elecciones nacionales, pero se ha hablado poco de la reforma de las políticas de drogas y dos candidatos parlamentarios pro reforma fueron forzados a salir de la votación después que surgieron vídeos en YouTube en que aparecían consumiendo drogas.

Falta un mes para el día de las elecciones. He aquí un desglose de las iniciativas sobre la reforma de las políticas de drogas y las condenas (no todas son buenas) en varias elecciones estatales y municipales el 04 de noviembre.