Drug War Chronicle

Oakland's Harborside medical marijuana dispensary won a victory in federal court Monday, but more battles loom.

Singapore is easing up slightly, but only slightly, on the application of the death penalty for drug trafficking offenses.

Bermuda's new attorney general wants Parliament to take up the topic of marijuana law reform, but he's not quite ready to say it's time to legalize or decriminalize it.

Bolivia's bid to rejoin the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs without accepting the treaty's proscription against coca leaf chewing appears to be set to happen, despite the objections of a handful of Western countries.

For two years Drug War Chronicle has tracked cases in the US of drug war carnage related to drug law enforcement. Here is a preliminary look at last year's.

It's been fairly quiet over the holidays, but medical marijuana is legal in Massachusetts now!

Philadelphia keeps on paying for its out-of-control drug squad, and a pair of probation officers have pill-pilfering problems.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott's drug testing crusade has just cost state taxpayers $190,000 after a federal judge ordered the state to pay attorneys' fees in an employee drug testing lawsuit bought by state employee unions. His other drug testing schemes aren't faring well, either.

America's first legal members-only marijuana consumption clubs have opened this week in Colorado.

Naloxone has already reversed some 10,000 opioid drug overdoses, and a new study suggests its wider distribution could save thousands more at a very low cost.