Drug War Chronicle

Esta semana la Oficina de la ONU contra la Droga y el Delito informó que la producción afgana de opio ha disminuido un poco este año. Aunque el Occidente haya alabado los hallazgos, observadores independientes fueron mucho menos optimistas.

Después de más de una década de conflicto y confusión por la legislación de California sobre la marihuana medicinal, el lunes el fiscal general Jerry Brown dictó una serie de directrices para proveedores de pacientes y policías pensadas para especificar lo que es permisible y lo que no lo es conforme a derecho.

A key Coast Guard anti-drug fighter gets caught doing cocaine, plus the usual array of miscreants in blue.

Washington voters approved medical marijuana a decade ago, but confusion over what constitutes an allowable quantity of medicine and plants continues. Now, the state health department is trying to set rules, and patients aren't happy with what it's proposing.

Police in Scotland engineered a crackdown on heroin in Dundee, only to find they had created a crime wave.

For a decade, Congress has barred the city of Washington, DC, from spending money to fund needle exchange programs in an effort to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS. That ban was lifted earlier this year, and now the money is beginning to flow.

This month, Iran has once again led the way in executing drug offenders.

After more than a decade of conflict and confusion over California's medical marijuana laws, state Attorney General Jerry Brown Monday issued a series of guidelines for patients, providers, and police designed to specify just what is and is not allowable under the law.

Somebody at the National Asian Peace Officers Association conference this week didn't want their members to hear from anti-prohibitionist cops. LEAP wants to know who and why.

Australians showed strong support for medical marijuana and harm reduction measures in a national survey. Marijuana legalization? Not so much, at least not yet.