Drug War Chronicle

Pop music is full of drug references, researchers have found, most of them positive. Stop the presses!

Another harvest season has come and gone in California, and law enforcement is crowing about record marijuana plant seizures. The numbers are huge, but the numbers missed are bigger -- and so are the lost tax revenues.

The Australian state of Queensland is effectively increasing penalties for a number of drugs by rescheduling them as more dangerous.

North Dakota farmers who are suing the federal government for the right to grow hemp had another day in court Wednesday in Bismarck as federal prosecutors sought to get the case thrown out. A decision on that motion is expected by month's end.

Last week, we looked at the Democratic presidential candidates' drug policy positions. This week, it's the Republicans' turn.

The Drug Policy Alliance is searching for a Deputy Director to work in its San Francisco office.

Arch-drug warrior went a little too far when he called opponents of his pet financial aid drug convictions law a pack of drug legalizers. Now, he's being called on it.