Editorial: Sometimes They Tell the Truth
Whether the good or the truly horrid, much can be learned about drug policy during those rare moments when public officials tell the truth about it.
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Weekly: The Reformer's Calendar
Showing up at an event can be the best way to get involved! Check out this week's listings for events from today through next year, across the US and around the world!
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Announcement: Sick Editor = Short Issue
Summer pneumonia cut into the Chronicle editor's work week, but he's already recovering.
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Marijuana: Seattle Hempfest Sues City, Art Museum Over Permitting, Access
Who would have thought the world's premier marijuana law reform rally would have to sue one of the most progressive cities in the country?
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Latin America: New Report Says Colombian Cocaine Production Seriously Underestimated
Despite billions of dollars in US aid, Colombian cocaine production remains at near record levels. Or is it even more? A new report raises serious questions.
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Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Another sheriff who couldn't resist temptation, another drug-dealing cop, and something smells mighty bad in a Mississippi anti-drug task force.
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Harm Reduction: Drug Czar's Office Opposes Letting Heroin Users Have Easy Access to Overdose Antidote
The drug czar's office wants to make sure drugs kill -- to prove that drugs kill.
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Feature: As Fighting Flares in Southern Afghanistan, Support for Licensed Opium Production Grows
As NATO takes over in southern Afghanistan, fighting is flaring and opium is driving much of it. Now, European politicians are beginning to embrace a controversial opium licensing scheme.
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It's Aghanistan and England in the featured stories tomorrow
I wanted to do South Dakota and the lawsuit over the the medical marijuana initiative ballot language, but the lawsuit hasn't happened, and the appointed spokeswoman for the initiative hasn't returned my calls.
I contacted the Senlis Council for some comment about increasing support for their opium licensing initiative. No response. Nada. I find these guys increasingly insufferable.
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Feature: British Parliamentary Committee Slams Drug Classification Scheme, Calls for Evidence-Based System
A parliamentary select committee has issued a report calling Britain's drug classification scheme outmoded, ineffective, and based more on politics than science.
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New "Meth Gun" Not as Cool as it Sounds
Courtesy of Pete Guither at DrugWarRant comes this terrifying story.
From CNET News:
A new "meth gun," in development by Maryland-based CDEX, enables police to use ultraviolet light to detect trace amounts of chemicals left by methamphetamines and other illegal drugs.
Civil libertarians have been concerned for some time that drug war profiteers would begin marketing something like this. Of course, the obvious problem with this type of technology is that it will inevitably be wrong sometimes.
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In Memoriam: Methadone Pioneer Vincent P. Dole
Vincent Dole, a legendary figure in addiction treatment who has countless saved lives to his credit, has passed at age 93.
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Weekly: This Week in History
Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.
In The Trenches
MPP Seeks Help Gathering Signatures in Missoula--they need 11,000 in three weeks
Here's the text of the email they sent out today:
Help urgently needed to put marijuana initiative on Missoula County ballot
Marijuana Policy Project grant recipient Citizens for Responsible Crime Policy (CRCP) only has three weeks remaining to collect signatures for an initiative that would urge Missoula County law enforcement officers to make adult marijuana offenses the countyâs lowest law enforcement priority, and they still need 11,000 more signatures!
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Drug Trade Hurting Mexican Environmental Efforts -- Prohibition to Blame
A piece in Mexico's El Universal called illegal drugs the "root of evil for conservationists." From deforestation in Chihuahua's Copper Canyon by marijuana and opium growers to make way for their crops, to cocaine dumping near the fragile reef nurseries in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico by traffickers, writer Talli Nauman laments: