Drug War Chronicle

Citando memorandos irrefutables entre empleados políticos de la Casa Blanca y la secretaría antidroga, el martes, el presidente del Comité de Supervisión y Reforma del Gobierno de la Cámara acusó el gobierno Bush de politizar el Gabinete de Política Nacional de Control de las Drogas. Y están presentando testigos.

Atrapar la secretaría antidroga en engaños, improbidad y comportamiento generalmente inexplicable está empezando a ser pan comido. ¿Cuáles son las pruebas para justificar la propia existencia de la agencia?

DEA and ONDCP functionaries got a grilling on medical marijuana issues at a House subcommittee hearing last week.

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Citing smoking-gun memos between White House political staffers and the drug czar's office, the head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Tuesday accused the Bush administration of politicizing the Office of National Drug Control Policy. And they're deposing witnesses.

For the first time in more than a decade, the DEA came under congressional scrutiny last week for its interference in the practice of medicine. Pain patient and doctor advocates got a chance to tell a congressional committee about the crisis in chronic pain and how the DEA gets in the way.

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

The Vera Institute of Justice seeks a research and policy associate to work in its Washington DC Office.