Oregon Marijuana Initiative Hands in Final Signatures
Oregon's OCTA marijuana legalization initiative has handed in a final 57,000 signatures.
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Georgia Puts Welfare Drug Testing on Hold
Georgia's governor was quick to sign a welfare drug testing bill into law, but now he wants to wait for a legal challenge to a similar law in Florida before implementing that law that was suppo
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Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Initiative Makes Ballot
It looks like Massachusetts has a good shot at becoming the 18th medical marijuana state. An initiative there has qualified for the ballot.
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Gabe, an Arkansas HIV patient who benefits from medical marijuana and would like his medicine to be legal (arcompassion.org)
Arkansas Medical Marijuana Signatures Handed In
Arkansas proponents for a medical marijuana initiative met a critical deadline last week, but still have thousands of signatures to gather if they're going to make the November ballot.
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Singapore to Relax Death Penalty for Some Drug Traffickers
Hard-line Singapore has announced it is modifying its mandatory death sentence for drug traffickers. It's just a small change, but it may save a few lives, and serve as a signal for other drug death penalty states.
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Drug War Snapshot: Ocean City, Maryland
The police in Ocean City, Maryland, are on a mission to maximize marijuana arrests, and they're doing quite well at it. Factor that in to your vacation plans.
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Drug War Snapshot: Corpus Christi and Nueces County, Texas
In Corpus Christi, police have been arresting a thousand people a year on drug charges. That's the single largest reason people make it to felony court in Nueces County.
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Volusia County Courthouse (volusia.org)
Drug War Snapshot: Volusia County, Florida
The criminal justice system in Volusia County, Florida, is running largely on the drug war if last Friday's jail bookings are any indication.
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Oregon Marijuana Initiative Hands in Final Signatures
Oregon's OCTA marijuana legalization initiative has handed in a final 57,000 signatures. It needs 32,000 of them to be valid to make the November ballot. But election officials invalidated almost half of earlier signatures, so it's still nail-biting time for proponents.
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Georgia Governor Puts Welfare Drug Testing on Hold
Georgia's governor was quick to sign a welfare drug testing bill into law, but now he wants to wait for a legal challenge to a similar law in Florida before implementing that law that was supposed to go into effect July 1.
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Mexico President-Elect Wants Drug Legalization Talks
Mexico's next president has joined the ever growing chorus of Latin American leaders calling for a serious discussion of drug legalization, even as he announced he would continue to fight the d
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Mexico's Drug War Version 2.0 [FEATURE]
Mexico's president-elect is going to rejigger the way the country prosecutes its war on the drug cartels, but no radical changes are app
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Puerto Rico Narcotics Officer Killed in Ambush
A Puerto Rican narcotics officer becomes the year's 29th drug war fatality after being ambushed in his vehicle Tuesday night.
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Did You Know? Federal Expenditures on the Drug War, from DrugWarFacts.org
DrugWarFacts.org, a publication of Common Sense for Drug Policy, is an in-depth compilation of key facts, stats and quotes on the full range of drug policy issues, excerpted from expert publication
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Did You Know? Federal Expenditures on the Drug War, from DrugWarFacts.org
DrugWarFacts.org, a publication of Common Sense for Drug Policy, is an in-depth compilation of key facts, stats and quotes on the full range of drug policy issues, excerpted from expert publications on the subjects. The Chronicle is running a series of info items from DrugWarFacts.org -- check them out!
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Medical Marijuana Update
California continues to have conniptions over medical marijuana, a scientific review finds marijuana's Schedule I status "untenable," and much, much more.
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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
A crooked narc scandal in Florida just keeps on giving, a sticky-fingered Kansas City cop goes to jail, a former Arizona cop is in trouble for stealing pain pills, and an Arizona ICE agent cops to providing info to the cartels.
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Mexican president-elect Enrique Peña Nieto (cddiputados.gob.mx)
Mexico President-Elect Wants Drug Legalization Talks
Mexico's next president has joined the ever growing chorus of Latin American leaders calling for a serious discussion of drug legalization, even as he announced he would continue to fight the drug war in Mexico.
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Mexico's likely next president, Enrique Peña Nieto (wikimedia.org)
Mexico's Drug War Version 2.0 [FEATURE]
Mexico's president-elect is going to rejigger the way the country prosecutes its war on the drug cartels, but no radical changes are apparent.
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Will Obama Be Better on Drug Policy in His Second Term?
[inline:Obama1.jpg align=right]Marc Ambinder has a totally weird and distracting piece in GQ