Drug War Chronicle

The biennial International Drug Policy Reform Conference will convene this fall in Los Angeles. Session proposals are accepted until March 18, and registration and scholarship applications for the conference will open soon.

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

Michigan gives us two spectacularly egregious cases of corrupt policing, one of which included prosecutors and a judge -- and we throw in the obligatory greedy jail guards.

Synthetic marijuana has been banned by the DEA in an emergency action. This time, they mean it.

Copenhagen is set to become the next European city with a safe injection site -- except the police don't want anyone to actually inject drugs there. A confrontation looms.

Utah is the latest state to hop on the fake pot ban bandwagon. The same law also bans mephedrone.

A take-down of alleged crack dealers in a Lackawanna, New York, gas station parking lot has yielded the year's 11th drug war fatality.

The fake pot menace has been eliminated from Nebraska, or at least, driven underground.

A bill that would create medical marijuana dispensaries in Hawaii won a key Senate committee vote Thursday.

The US Surgeon General has given the thumbs up to needle exchanges. That should open up some grant opportunities.