Drug War Chronicle

Puede que Kellogg haya hecho mal sus cálculos cuando echó al medallista de oro olímpico Michael Phelps después que afloró la infame foto con el narguile. No sólo provocó un boicoteo de los activistas pro marihuana, parece que ahora ello está perjudicando la reputación de la gigante de los alimentos.

The Pew Center on the States has released a report noting that 1 in 31 Americans is either in jail or prison or on probation or parole. Although two-thirds of them are probationers or parolees, it is prisons that are gobbling up the corrections budget. That needs to change, the report said.

Those field drug test kits police use to test for the presence of illegal drugs are so unreliable they should be banned, researchers said Tuesday. A Hershey's candy bar, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap, and Tylenol are just a few of the common items that generate false positives. Air was another.