DOJ to Sentencing Commission: Fewer Prisoners, Please
The Justice Department is signaling it wants a smaller federal prison population because we can't afford our mass incarceration binge anymore, but it doesn't want to talk about the drug war
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Handcuffed Marijuana Arrestee Shot, Killed in Police Car
Police say a young Mississippi man shot himself while cuffed with his hands behind his back in the back sear of a police car with a gun they missed while searching him after arresting him for marijuana. His mother isn't buying it.
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Lebanon Hashish Eradication Hits New Obstacle
Lebanon's annual effort to wipe out hashish production is having a particularly rocky time this year. On Tuesday, eradicators were stuck without bulldozers after locals refused to rent to them. At least no one was shooting at them this week.
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Woman Walks After Prosecutorial Perfidy in Tucson [FEATURE]
Aurora Lopez-Avila is back home in Mexico.
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Woman Walks After Prosecutorial Perfidy in Tucson [FEATURE]
In the latest installment of his series of investigate reports on prosecutorial misconduct in the war on drugs, Clarence Walker looks into an Assistant US Attorney in Tucson whose dirty tricks cost him the case.
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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
A crank-dealing sheriff cops a plea, an LA narc gets a case of sticky fingers, an Arkansas narc develops a fondness for dope, and a North Carolina parole officer gets caught forcing his parolees to supply him with dope.
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Even the feds can no longer sustain current mass incarceration policies. (US Supreme Court)
DOJ to Sentencing Commission: Fewer Prisoners, Please
The Justice Department is signaling it wants a smaller federal prison population because we can't afford our mass incarceration binge anymore, but it doesn't want to talk about the drug war.
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Medical Marijuana Rescheduling Lawsuit Moving
Ten years after the Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis filed a petition to remove marijuana from Schedule I and one year after the DEA rejected that petition, a federal appeals court is set to hea
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Medical Marijuana Rescheduling Lawsuit Moving
Ten years after the Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis filed a petition to remove marijuana from Schedule I and one year after the DEA rejected that petition, a federal appeals court is set to hear the evidence.
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"You Can't Stop AIDS Without Ending the Drug War" [FEATURE]
The International AIDS Conference in Washington this week saw foreign drug users and sex workers excluded even amidst a rising clamor for ending the drug war to help stop the spread of disease.
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"You Can't Stop AIDS Without Ending the Drug War" [FEATURE]
The International AIDS Conference in Washington this week saw foreign drug users and sex workers excluded even amidst a rising clamor for ending the drug war to help stop the spread of disease.
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Colombia Coca Cultivation Ticks Upward
Coca production in Colombia ticked upward last year after four straight years of declines, the UNODC said in a new report.
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Colombian Coca Cultivation Ticks Upward
Coca production in Colombia ticked upward last year after four straight years of declines, the UNODC said in a new report. It's still way down from its peak, though.
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Medical Marijuana Update
Harborside fights for its life, LA bans dispensaries, and Oregon transplant hospitals are lightening up on medical marijuana patients.
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Medical Marijuana Update
Harborside fights for its life, LA bans dispensaries, and Oregon transplant hospitals are lightening up on medical marijuana patients. Those are the big stories this week, but there's plenty more, too.
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Two More US Drug War Killings
One man is dead after swallowing drugs and being hit with a stun gun in Indianapolis as he tried to flee an arrest.
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Two More US Drug War Deaths
One man is dead after swallowing drugs and being hit with a stun gun in Indianapolis as he tried to flee an arrest. Another is dead in Massachusetts after he was shot trying to flee an arrest in his car.
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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Bad cop, no donut for a Miami sergeant, two more TSA screeners cop pleas in LA, and a Phoenix cop couldn't keep his paws off the evidence room goodies.
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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Bad cop, no donut for a Miami sergeant, two more TSA screeners cop pleas in LA, and a Phoenix cop couldn't keep his paws off the evidence room goodies.
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Washington Marijuana Initiative Has Good Week
Washington state's I-502 marijuana legalization initiative did well in polling this week and even better in fundraising. This thing could win, and it has the money to help make that happen.