Chronicle Archive
Comprehensive coverage of the War on Drugs since 1997
- State Drug Reform Initiatives on the November Ballot [FEATURE]
- OR Law Recriminalizing Drug Possession Now in Effect [FEATURE]
- This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- DEA Sets MJ Rescheduling Hearing Date After Election, Colombia to Try Again on Legalization, More... (8/27/24)
- Home Depot to Stop Marijuana Testing for Workers, DEA Judge Sets Psychedelic Compound Ban Hearing, More... (8/28/24)
- Federal Appeals Court Upholds Pot Smoker's Gun Rights, Ukraine Regulators Reject MedMJ for PTSD, More... (8/30/24)
- OR Drug Decrim Ends, Nebraska Initiatives Qualify for Ballot, More... (9/3/24)
- FDA Approves Early-Stage Trials of Psychelic "Moxy," Oregon Study on Decrim and Overdoses, More... (9/5/24)
- 2026 Idaho Legalization Init Planned, KY Sees Strong MedMJ Business Interest, More... (9/6/24)
- Students Take On DEA's Psychedelic Research Chemicals Ban [FEATURE]
- StoptheDrugWar.org's Marijuana Rescheduling Comment
- OK Appeals Court Rules MedMJ-Using Pregnant Women Can't Be Charged with Child Neglect, Drug Czar Honors Interdiction Efforts, More... (7/19/24)
- OH Issues First Adult-Use Marijuana Business Licenses, US Citizen Sentenced to 13 Years on Russian Drug Charges, More... (7/22/24)
- Public Comment Period on Marijuana Rescheduling Proposal Ends, Thai Government Backtracks on Marijuana Recrimin, More... (7/24/24)
- US Nabs Sinaloa Cartel Head, MN Opens Applications for First Adult-Use Pot Licenses, More... (7/26/24)
- San Francisco Could Pay Welfare Recipients to Stay Drug-Free, MA Safe Injection Site Hearing, More... (7/29/24)
- Key GOP Lawmakers Question Marijuana Rescheduling Process, Another FL Poll Has MJ Init Winning, More... (7/30/24)
- The US Has Deported Half a Million People for Drug Offenses in 20 Years [FEATURE]
- "Pink Cocaine" Arrives in US, Congress Passes Federal Prison Reform Bill, More... (7/15/24)
- JD Vance on Marijuana Policy, Australia's Cocaine is Being Cut with Nitazenes, More... (7/16/24)
- DEA Gets 30,000 Public Comments on Marijuana Rescheduling, San Francisco Drug Overdoses Decline, More... (7/17/24)
- Democratic Party Platform Touts Marijuana Reforms But Falls Short of 2020, More (7/18/24)
- Chronicle Book Review: Blotter
- Medical Marijuana Update
- Federal Pot Expungement Bill Filed, CA Bill to Speed Psychedelic Research Goes to Governor, More... (7/8/24)
- GOP House Lawmakers Keep Messing with Marijuana Reforms, Florida Legalization Init Faces Opposition, More... (7/12/24)
- WA Natural Psychedelic Legalization Initiative Filed, Mexican Fentanyl Seizures Plummet, More... (7/10/24)
- MA Psychedelic Legalization Init Qualifies for Ballot, NC Latest State to Ban "Gas Station Heroin," More... (7/11/24)
- GOP House Lawmakers Keep Messing with Marijuana Reforms, Florida Legalization Init Faces Opposition, More... (7/12/24)
- Chronicle Book Review: Narco Media
- This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- House Rules Committee Blocks Marijuana Amendments in Spending Bills, UN World Drug Report 2024 Released, More... (6/26/24)
- Supreme Court Throws Out Oxycontin Settlement, Honduras Ex-President Sentenced as Cocaine Trafficker, More... (6/27/24)
- New FL Law Protects Residents from Cocaine-Crazed Bears, CA Bars Must Now Offer Date Rape Drug Test Kits, More...(7/1/24)
- Federal Court Reject Pot Companies' Challenge to Prohibition, Peru Coca Eradication, More... (7/2/24)
- DE Bill to Let Dispensaries Begin Adult Use Pot Sales Goes to Governor, 19 Dead in Mexico Drug Gang Clash, More... (7/3/24)
- Arkansas MedMJ Init Campaign Hands in Signatures, FL Poll Has Good Tidings for Legalization Init, More... (7/5/24)
- Leading Filipina Critic of Duterte's Bloody Drug War Finally Free of All Charges After Years in Jail on Bogus Charges [FEATURE]
- FDA Panel Rejects MDMA for PTSD Application, But Recommendation Is Not Binding [FEATURE]
- Chronicle Magazine Review: The Baffler, No. 74, Altered States
- Medical Marijuana Update
- This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- VT Lawmakers Override Safe Injection Site Veto, Dutch "Weed Experiment" Expands, More... (6/18/24)
- CA State Fair Will Be First in Nation to Allow Weed Sales, AZ Governor Vetoes Psilocybin Services Bill, More... (6/19/24)
- NC Senate Approves MedMJ, DE House Approves Expedited Adult-Use Sales Bill, More... (6/20/24)
- Former DEA Heads and GOP AGs Seek Hearing on Marijuana Rescheduling; China-US Meeting on Fentanyl, More... (6/21/24)
- FL Legal Pot Campaign Now Most Highly-Funded Ever, UN Health Expert Calls for End to War on Drugs, More... (6/24/24)
- Trump & Allies Call for Biden Drug Test, Brazil Supreme Court Moves to Decriminalize Pot, More... (6/25/24)
- DEA to Reschedule Marijuana -- Weed World Reacts [FEATURE]
- Chronicle Book Review: Quick Fixes
- This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- Congressional Dems Call for DEA to Move Fast on Pot Rescheduling, Biden Signs Fentanyl Bill, More... (4/25/24)
- DEA Warns on Xylazine in Illicit Fentanyl, BC Recriminalizes Public Drug Possession, More... (4/29/24)
- DEA Recommends Rescheduling Marijuana, San Francisco Drug Crackdown Continues, More... (4/30/24)
- Senate Democrats File Federal Legalization Bill, Push to Expand Organic Grow Program, More... (5/1/24)
- Federal Bill Would Restrict .50 Caliber Rifles in Bid to Block Cartel Access [FEATURE]
- Chronicle Book Review: The Suburban Crisis
- Chronicle Book Review: Smoke and Ashes
- This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- MN Lawmakers Set Stage for Legal Weed Industry, Afghans Eradicate Miles of Opium Poppies, More... (5/24/24)
- LA First State to Make Abortion Drugs Controlled Substances, NH Senate Approves Marijuana Legalization Bill, More... (5/28/24)
- South Africa Legalizes Marijuana, DE Governor Signs MedMJ Expansion Bill, More... (5/29/24)
- CA Cops Now Support Marijuana Legalization, One-Year Anniversary of San Francisco Drug Crackdown, More... (5/30/24)
- One-Third of Americans Know Someone Who Died of an Overdose, LA Bans "Gas Station Heroin," More... (5/31/24)
- CA Kratom Regulation Bill Advances, VT Governor Vetoes Safe Injection Site Bill, More... (6/3/24)
- Chronicle Mini-Book Mini-Review: A Weed Grows in Boston
- This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
- No MedMJ for South Carolina This Year, Mexico Deploys Troops to Border Amid Cartel Clashes, More... (5/2/24)
- VT Senate Approves Safe Injection Site Bill, CT House Approves Bill to Regulate Cannabis Products, More... (5/3/24)
- Pot Use Among Workers at "Historic" High, Afghanistan Opium Eradication Clashes, More... (5/6/24)
- Delaware Releases Draft Rules for Legal Pot Commerce, New Zealand Call for Drug Legalization, More... (5/7/24)
- NH Pot Legalization Bill Still Lives, Deadly Bomb Strikes Taliban Opium Eradicators, More... (5/9/24)
- DEA Releases Annual Threat Assessment, PA Set to Ban Xylazine, More... (5/10/24)
- APPEAL: Help Us Respond to the Opportunities and the Challenges of This Time
- Online This Week: Victims Move Forward from the Philippine Drug War
- In Bold Step Backward, OR Lawmakers Vote to Recriminalize Drug Possession [FEATURE]
- Florida Supreme Court Clears Marijuana Legalization Initiative for November Ballot [FEATURE]
- Medical Marijuana Update
- FL Governor Warns Against Weed Initiative, Iran's Execution Binge, More... (4/5/24)
- CO House Passes Safe Injection Site Bill, Christiania Rips Up Pusher Street, More... (4/8/24)
- More Truck Drivers Refuse Drug Tests, KS Asset Forfeiture Reform Heads to Governor, More... (4/9/24)
- Senate Democrats to Roll Out Marijuana Legalization Bill This Month, More... (4/10/24)
- Poll Finds Americans Want to Grow Their Own Weed, ME Psychedelic Study Bill Goes to Governor, More... (4/11/24)
- NH House Approves Marijuana Legalization Bill, CA Methadone Access Bill Filed, More... (4/12/24)