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This important new documentary about the medical marijuana movement is DRCNet's latest membership premium.
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Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar
Visit our new web site each day to see a running countdown to the events coming up the soonest, and more.
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Europe: British Drug Expert Calls for Downgrade on LSD, Ecstasy
The head of the British Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has called for ecstasy and LSD to be reclassified as less serious drugs, but the government has signalled it isn't listening.
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Harm Reduction: Yet Another Study Finds Vancouver's Safe Injection Site Benefits Users Without Harming Community
Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper doesn't like safe injection sites, but as yet another study shows, science is not on his side.
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Europe: Italian Government Loosens Marijuana Possession Limits
An administrative measure last week doubled the amount of marijuana people can possess without facing criminal charges.
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Sentencing: Veteran Houston Judge Calls for Shorter Sentences for Drug Possession
Houston (Harris County) accounts for nearly 40% of all Texas prisoners serving state jail time for drug possession offenses. Now, a conservative Houston jurist says enough is enough.
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Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
A couple of unusual ones this week -- a coke-dealing former fire chief in Connecticut and a Texas cop whose wife has a bad passport and some very shady connections.
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Racial Profiling: It Never Went Away on the New Jersey Turnpike
As New Jersey's governor ponders whether to continue a consent decree designed to eliminate racial profiling by State Police, the ACLU says the problem is worse than ever.
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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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Granny 3 Cops 1
"I don't know what kind [of gun it was] and it was rusty, but apparently it was working well."
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2006/11/21/1121copshot.html
The police claim they did everything by the book.
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I Met Pete Guither!
One of many highlights at the SSDP Conference was finally meeting DrugWarRant blogger Pete Guither. Here I am with three of my favorite writers:
Scott Morgan, Radley Balko, Nick Gillespie, Peter Guither
Scott Morgan, Radley Balko, Nick Gillespie, Peter Guither
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Is It Time for Direct Action to Shut Down DEA Headquarters?
One of the nice things about coming to Washington is more stimulating dinner discussions than I'm accustomed to out in the boondocks. Last night, I had the chance to have dinner with a couple very well-versed in both drug policy reform and mass protests agitating. As conversation turned to what can be done about the drug war, one of them suggested it was time to crank it up a bit, and he had a very concrete suggestion: a direction action protest to surround and shut down DEA headquarters in suburban Arlington, Virginia.