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Chronicle Book Review: Hostage Nation
We review a book on Colombia and US drug policy seen through a lens focused on American contractors and Colombian politicians kidnapped by the FARC.
Drug War Chronicle
Comprehensive coverage of the War on Drugs since 1997
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California Gov. Jerry Brown takes a tiny step toward corrections reform.California Corrections "Realignment" Not Nearly Enough [FEATURE]
California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill "realigning" corrections in the state, but that's just the tiniest of baby steps toward fixing an out of control prison system. How about some real sentencing reform? -
parthenon_25.gifThis Week in History
Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past. -
prohibition fuels violence (image via Wikimedia)Mexico Drug War Update
More bloody days in Ciudad Juarez, and violence flares in Veracruz as well. -
prohibition corrupts (image via Wikimedia)This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Missing drug money, meth-dealing sheriffs, cocaine-snorting crooked cops, cops turned robbers -- it's just another week on the corrupt cops beat. -
There's plenty more where this came from, governor. (Image via Wikimedia)Drug Test Protestors Send Urine Sample to Florida Governor
A Florida group formed to protest the governor's order that state employees be subjected to random drug testing has come up with an apt, if smelly, form of protest. -
No growing your own, you Mainers! (Image courtesy of the author)Maine Marijuana Decriminalization Bills Die
Bills that would have decriminalized up to five ounces of weed or six pot plants were killed in a Maine legislative committee last week. -
Will voters take matters into their own hands now? (Image via Wikimedia)Marijuana Legalization Bill Dies in Washington State
A move to legalize weed through the legislative process has died in Olympia, but some are acting to put a legalization initiative on the November ballot. -
Did You Know? Felon Loss of Voting Rights, on Procon.org
ProCon.org is a series of in-depth web sites presenting information and views on controversial issues, several of which relate to drug policy. The Chronicle is running a six-part series of info items from ProCon.org, and we encourage you to check it out. -
New Zealand takes a reasoned approach to fake pot. (Image via Wikimedia)New Zealand to Regulate Rather Than Prohibit Synthetic Marijuana
New Zealand is responding to fake pot with regulation, not prohibition.