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The Year on Drugs 2009: International Drug Policy Developments

The war in Afghanistan, the rising tide of drug reform in Latin America, and battles over drug policies in European countries are among the dominant international drug policy stories of 2009. (Reprinted from last week's issue to accompany this week's top ten domestic drug policy stories feature.)

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Heroin Maintenance: SALOME Trials Set to Begin in Vancouver

Move over NAOMI, here comes SALOME. Just in time for the Winter Olympics, a new heroin maintenance trial is set to get underway early next year in Vancouver.

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Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories

It's a Texas trifecta for Christmas, plus an Alabama jail guard.

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Latin America: Mexico Drug War Update

The Mexican military killed a major drug lord last week, but that doesn't seem to have changed anything. The violence continues...

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Latin America: Bolivia's Morales Says He Will Legalize Small Coca Holdings

Bolivian President Evo Morales wants to amend his country's drug law to legalize coca farmers' small holdings and to bring allowed national cultivation limits in line with Bolivian reality. This won't go over well in Washington or with the UN anti-drug bureaucrats.

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Hemp: North Dakota Farmers Lose Appeal in 8th US Circuit

North Dakota farmers want to grow hemp. North Dakota has licensed them to grow hemp. But are they growing any hemp? No, and a new court decision means its likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future.

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Medical Marijuana: Rhode Island Releases Draft of Proposed Dispensary Rules

Rhode Island approved adding a dispensary system to its medical marijuana program this spring, and now the state Department of Health has promulgated proposed rules to regulate it. But even if all goes well -- and non-controversially -- it could be another year before a dispensary actually starts dispensing.

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The Year on Drugs 2009: The Top Ten US Domestic Drug Policy Stories

What a year! A lot happened in 2009 when it comes to drug policy, much of it good. Last issue we reviewed the international developments. This last week of the year, we take a look at what we see as the ten most important domestic drug policy stories the year brought us.

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Afghanistan: US Anti-Drug Strategy Lacking, State Department Report Finds

The State Department's "drugs and thugs" people in charge of Afghan counternarcotics policy aren't doing a very good job, an Inspector General's report has found. Of course, it's tough when you're tasked with Mission Impossible.

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Weekly: This Week in History

Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.

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Wall Street Journal Says Marijuana Legalization Could Save Mexico

You know things have changed when mainstream media coverage of the war on drugs increasingly looks like this:

In the 40 years since U.S. President Richard Nixon declared a "war on drugs," the supply and use of drugs has not changed in any fundamental way. The only difference: a taxpayer bill of more than $1 trillion.

A senior Mexican official who has spent more than two decades helping fight the government's war on drugs summed up recently what he's learned from his long career: "This war is not winnable." [WSJ]

The whole piece is excellent and it's exactly this sort of thorough reporting that's been missing from the drug policy debate for far too long.

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The Year on Drugs 2009: International Drug Policy Developments

Feedback: Do You Read Drug War Chronicle?

Students: Intern at StoptheDrugWar.org (DRCNet) and Help Stop the Drug War!

Heroin Maintenance: SALOME Trials Set to Begin in Vancouver

Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories

Latin America: Mexico Drug War Update

Latin America: Bolivia's Morales Says He Will Legalize Small Coca Holdings

Hemp: North Dakota Farmers Lose Appeal in 8th US Circuit

Medical Marijuana: Rhode Island Releases Draft of Proposed Dispensary Rules

The Year on Drugs 2009: The Top Ten US Domestic Drug Policy Stories

Afghanistan: US Anti-Drug Strategy Lacking, State Department Report Finds

Weekly: This Week in History

Wall Street Journal Says Marijuana Legalization Could Save Mexico

Medical Marijuana Cable Show "It's the Law"

Mexico reassesses as JuÃ¡rez strategy deemed a failure

Washington among states considering legalizing marijuana, dozens of states weigh other reforms

Colombia to be a threat in 2010: Chavez

Are America's Mercenary Armies Really Drug Cartels?

B.C. homicides down, drug murders up for 2009

Drug cartels plunge JuÃ¡rez deep into chaos