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Majority in Colorado Poll Want Marijuana Legalized
A new poll has Coloradans voicing majority support for marijuana legalization, but just barely.
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Greek Government Proposes Drug Decriminalization
The Greek government has submitted a bill that would decriminalize drug possession in most circumstances and provide for drug treatment instead of jail for addicts.
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Presenting: The StoptheDrugWar.org Legislative Center
We are pleased to announce a major new section of the StoptheDrugWar.org web site. And we are seeking your support to continue to make it possible.
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NJ MS Patient Loses Appeal, Facing Five Years [FEATURE]
Even as medical marijuana distribution centers prepare to open in New Jersey, a Garden State MS patient who grew his own medicine is sadly preparing to spend the next five years in prison.
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This Week in History
Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.
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Chronicle Book Review: BONG HiTS 4 JESUS
The BONG HiTS 4 JESUS case made it all the way to the Supreme Court, and now, an Oregon professor has written all about it.
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All the drug busts in Mexico don't seem to make a difference. (image via Wikimedia)
Mexico Drug War Update
CIA agents and US mercenaries stationed at a military base in northern Mexico are helping fight the drug cartels. And the killing continues...
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The lure of drug prohibition's filthy lucre proves corrosive to honest law enforcement. (image via Wikimedia)
This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
One crooked sheriff gets indicted, while another cops a plea. Meanwhile, the border generates another three cases of corruption or thuggery.
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Support for marijuana legalization is reaching the tipping point. (image via Wikimedia)
Poll Finds Majority Support Marijuana Legalization
For the third year in a row, Angus Reid polling shows majority support for marijuana legalization. That is more optimistic than other national polls, but only slightly more optimistic.
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Arizona AG Files Suit Against Medical Marijuana Clubs
First the Arizona governor and attorney general filed a federal lawsuit effectively stalling medical marijuana dispensaries. Now they've filed a state lawsuit to go after compassion clubs too.
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Israel Cabinet Approves Medical Marijuana Guidelines
The Israeli health ministry will begin overseeing medical marijuana production next year under an arrangement approved Sunday by the cabinet.
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Houston Deputies Kill Man Fleeing Drug Warrants
A Houston man attempting to evade arrest on drug and other charges was shot and killed by Harris County deputies after he did -- or did not -- hit one of them with his vehicle while trying to flee. That's US drug war death #33 for the year.
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British Lib Dems to Call for Drug Decriminalization
Britain's Liberal Democrats, junior partners in a governing coalition with the Conservatives, are set to call for drug decriminalization, a regulated marijuana market, and heroin maintenance.
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Could this man be the Rosa Parks of the marijuana legalization movement? (Image: Dana Walker)
WA Man Refuses Marijuana Fines, Chooses Jail
Marijuana civil disobedience came to a Washington state courthouse last week. That's an idea that needs to spread!
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One-Year Anniversary of the Fair Sentencing Act
[image:1 align:left]The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 was signed a year ago today, providing the first relief for federal crack cocaine defendants. Sentencing reform, civil rights and racial justice advocates had worked on the issue for nearly 20 years.
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New Drugs Get Same Old Response on Capitol Hill [FEATURE]
Confronted with new synthetic drugs, Congress is poised to do what it always does: ban them. But there is a better way, say advocates.
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This Week in History
Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.
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All the drug busts in Mexico don't seem to make a difference. (image via Wikimedia)
Mexico Drug War Update
You know things are messed up when the federal police are shooting at the head of the Ciudad Juarez police. Oh, and 216 more people were killed there in the drug wars last month.
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Chronicle Update -- Book Review, Mass. MedMj Init, This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Phil has published a Drug War Chronicle book review, "Drugs and Drug Policy," published by so
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Chronicle Book Review: Drugs and Drug Policy
A trio of academic experts have come up with a drug policy book you're going to want to read, even if only to argue with it. Especially to argue with it.