The Supreme Court has held that people "in the pipeline" -- convicted but not yet sentenced when Fair Sentencing Act reforms took effect -- on federal crack cocaine charges are entitled t
Two Oregon marijuana legalization initiatives are in a mad scramble to make the ballot after being hit with unprecedented high invalidation rates for signatures already handed in.
It's mainly news from California this week, with DEA and LAPD raids leading the way, but also some snippets from Colorado and Montana.
Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past, in Drug War Chronicle, online here.
Just another run of the mill week of drug war law enforcement corruption, except having a state trooper involved in a major pot grow is fairly unusual.
A new poll has the Washington state pot legalization initiative leading with 50% support, but that doesn't leave a lot of room for a margin of comfort.
A bill that would have ended the NYPD's abuse of New York's marijuana decriminalization law has been stymied by Senate Republicans.
The Senate has included federal funding for needle exchanges in its Health & Human Services FY 2013 appropriations bill.
Japan is moving to designate some synthetic cannabinoids and synthetic stimulants as "narcotics," effectively banning them.
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