Mexican Drug Traffickers Break Out of Jail Whenever They Want
As if you needed another reason to wince in exasperation at the total failure of each and every ongoing drug enforcement effort in Mexico, here we go again.
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Will the Aloha State be the next decrim state? (Image via Wikimedia)
Marijuana Decriminalization Bill Advances in Hawaii
Pot decriminalization is moving in the Hawaii Senate, but not so much in the House.
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Marijuana Wins the Culture War
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Did You Know? Nations Allowing Farmers to Grow Hemp, on DrugWarFacts.org
DrugWarFacts.org is an in-depth compilation of key facts, stats and quotes on the full range of drug policy issues, excerpted from expert publications. The Chronicle is running a series of info items from DrugWarFacts.org, and we encourage you to check it out.
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Teen's Medical Marijuana Fight Escalates As School Says He Cannot Come Back to Class After Going Home for Medicine, Father Appeals to Legislators for Help
The saga of a Colorado Springs, Colorado teenager struggling with a rare neurological condition best controlled with medical marijuana lozenges became a little more surreal when school officials informed the studentâs father that the child cannot return to school on any day that he consumes medical marijuana. The child missed most of the last school year when he was diagnosed with diaphragmatic and axial myoclonus, which causes seizures that can last for 24 hours or more. He spent extensive periods of time hospitalized and used morphine and other narcotics to control the seizures until doctors discovered that THC works better than any other medication.
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Virginia Legislature Passes Fake Marijuana Bills
The Virginia legislature has taken a couple of giant steps toward banning fake pot. Bills have unanimously passed both the House and Senate and now need only to be reconciled before heading to the governor.
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SPARC Gives Upscale Feel to Traditional Medical Marijuana Dispensary
In San Francisco, a medical marijuana collective is trying to change the idea of a medical marijuana club as a tiny storefront office in a declining part of town, or a huge but impersonal former warehouse.
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Canadian Doctors Decry Crackdown on Drugs
A large group of doctors, HIV researchers and other public health officials has just released a letter lambasting the Canadian governmentâs bill S-10, which would overhaul illicit drug laws. The principle target of the 564 signatories â which includes doctors, nurses, social workers and law professors â is a provision that would impose minimum prison sentences of at least six months for a variety of drug offenses, including operating small-scale marijuana grow operations.
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American Facing Death Penalty in Egypt for Hemp Oil [FEATURE]
Lost in Translation: Mostafa Soliman's trials and tribulations before and after the protests began, for importing hemp oil into Egypt border on the surreal. But there's nothing funny about the possible death sentence he's looking at.
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Greenway University Makes Medical Marijuana Education History
Greenway University has received full formal state approval from the Colorado Department of Higher Education. The university has received authorization to teach ten medical marijuana state-approved courses, the only such state-approved and regulated medical marijuana courses in the United States. Greenway University is renowned for its compliance driven medical marijuana educational services in California, Colorado, Arizona and the Western US.
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Experts: 'Nothing Amateur' About Narco Submarine
The only narco submarine ever captured is a 73-foot-long camouflaged vessel capable of carrying at least 7 tons of cocaine while cruising stealthily beneath the ocean's surface. In the seven months since the game-changing discovery of the submarine, built by drug traffickers in a covert shipyard deep in the Ecuadorean jungle, naval experts from multiple countries have studied the vessel. Their conclusion: It is the "real deal" â fully capable of making multiple journeys to North America.
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*DRUG TRUTH NETWORK PROGRAMS, Feb 6 to Feb 13, 2011*
*Cultural Baggage*, 29:00, Irvin Rosenfeld, author of "My Medicine"
receives 300 marijuana cigarettes from the US government every 25 days + James Gilheany, busted for medical marijuana & "fried" chicken recipe from Sandy Moriarty, head chef at Oaksterdam U
LINK: **http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3258
Transcript: Monday
*Century of Lies*, 29:00, Cliff Schaffer of Marijuana Business News & Drug Library + Bill Piper of the Drug Policy Alliance & Aunt Sandys recipe for cannabis tincture
LINK: http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3259
*4:20 Drug War NEWS*, 3:00 each, available at http://www.drugtruth.net on right margin
Sun - Bill Piper with Drug Policy Alliance re Obama's willingess to discussion of drug prohibition Sat - Cannabis flour and "fried" chicken with Sandy Moriarty Fri - Cliff Schaffer, publisher of DrugLibrary.org and MarijuanaBusinessNews.com Thu - Irvin Rosenfeld receives 300 cannabis cigarettes from the US Govt every 25 days Wed - Sandy Moriarty's recipe for cannabis tincture Tue - Mary Jane Borden of Drug War Facts asks: "How are women affected by the drug war?"
Mon - Terry Nelson of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition re Obama and drug legalization
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Police, Drugmakers Face Off Over Restricting Pseudoephedrine
Even though a bill has yet to be introduced in the Missouri General Assembly to return pseudoephedrine to its pre-1976 prescription-only status, both sides have begun to muster arguments and support. A recent poll found strong opposition nationwide for taking pseudoephedrine from behind the counter and putting it behind a prescription wall. Many law enforcement officers now believe that more pseudoephedrine sold in Missouri is used to make meth than to treat cold symptoms, a notion that the pharmaceutical industry disputes.
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Michigan Court Cases Involving Medical Marijuana
The Detroit Free Press reports on Michigan communities that have been sued over ordinances restricting medical marijuana.
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17 Killed in Mexico Drug Prohibition Violence This Weekend
At least 17 people -- including three young students -- were killed due to drug prohibition violence in northern Mexico this weekend.
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San Francisco 30-Member Task Force Unanimously Backs Legal Intravenous Drug Center
A San Francisco task force charged with devising strategies for reducing Hepatitis C infections has recommended making the city the first in the U.S. with a drop-in center where intravenous drug users can obtain needles and shoot up.
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Hemispheric Think Tank Says Time for Drug Policy Rethink
Add the Inter-American Dialogue to the ever-growing list of drug war critics. The group has just issued a new report calling for a fundamental rethinking of US drug policy.
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Drug war takes a life in Charleston (Image via Wikimedia)
West Virginia Police Kill Man Trying to Escape Drug Bust
This year's sixth drug law enforcement killing took place Friday afternoon in Charleston, West Virginia.
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Los Angeles Promoting Safe Ecstasy Use
Los Angeles County Health officials have posted tips for safe ecstasy use at the publicly owned Los Angeles Coliseum and Sports Arena.
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University of Kansas Scientist Studies Salvia Divinorum's Medicinal Potential
Dr. Thomas Prisinzano, a scientist at the University of Kansas, is studying whether the drug salvia could lead to revolutionary new medicines. He has studied it for nine years. Prisinzano is one of seven scientists in the country with a federal grant to look into what the plant can do.