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Comprehensive coverage of the War on Drugs since 1997

  • Dakta Green jailed in New Zealand for the herb. (daktagrower.blogspot.com)
    Dakta Green jailed in New Zealand for the herb. (daktagrower.blogspot.com)

    Dakta Green Jailed for New Zealand Cannabis Club

    New Zealand's marijuana reform community has seen one of its leading lights jailed for eight months, but that never stopped Dakta Green before.
  • Fake pot goes under many brand names. Spice is one. (image via wikimedia.org)
    Fake pot goes under many brand names. Spice is one. (image via wikimedia.org)

    More States Go After Synthetic Drugs

    When confronted with new intoxicating substances, legislators' prohibitionist reflexes kick in. Just ask fake pot and "bath salts" users.
  • marijuana fields just before they are burned (image via wikimedia.org)
    marijuana fields just before they are burned (image via wikimedia.org)

    Lebanese Police Destroying Marijuana Fields Attacked

    The Lebanese police's annual marijuana eradication campaign in the Bekaa Valley got off with a bang Monday, as police were attacked at least twice.
  • lime powder container (used traditionally in coca chewing), 1st-7th-century, Colombia (Quimbaya), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
    lime powder container (used traditionally in coca chewing), 1st-7th-century, Colombia (Quimbaya), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

    Bolivia to Quit United Nations Drug Convention Over Coca

    We may be about to see the first defection from the legal backbone of global drug prohibition, the 1961 UN Convention on Single Drugs. Bolivia is ready to dump it, at least temporarily, over its classification of coca as an illicit drug.
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    parthenon_36.gif

    This Week in History

    Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.
  • The profits of prohibition fuel the violence in Mexico. (Image via Wikimedia.org)
    The profits of prohibition fuel the violence in Mexico. (Image via Wikimedia.org)

    Mexico Drug War Update

    Last Wednesday was a bloody day in Nuevo Leon, and last weekend was a bloody one in Michoacan. And those are just the high-lights.
  • There will be no drug testing of residents at Lake Parc Place or any other CHA properties. (Image courtesy CHA)
    There will be no drug testing of residents at Lake Parc Place or any other CHA properties. (Image courtesy CHA)

    CHA Drops Plan to Drug Test Public Housing Residents

    The Chicago Housing Authority's proposal to require suspicionless drug tests for public housing residents excited lots of opposition. Now it's dead.
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