If you haven't yet seen DEA boss Michele Leonhart's frickin ridiculous congressional testimony last Thursday (or even if you have), please click over to Huffington Post where you'll find me ranting about it. 99% of the time when a drug warrior says something silly it doesn't become a big media story, but this one made the cut and for good reason. Check it out, then send the link to somebody cool.
Marijuana decriminalization is one city council vote away from being approved in Chicago.
The left-leaning Uruguayan government says it will introduce a bill that would give it a monopoly on legal marijuana sales.
New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch has vetoed a medical marijuana bill -- again.
The Supreme Court has held that people "in the pipeline" -- convicted but not yet sentenced when Fair Sentencing Act reforms took effect -- on federal crack cocaine charges are entitled t
Two Oregon marijuana legalization initiatives are in a mad scramble to make the ballot after being hit with unprecedented high invalidation rates for signatures already handed in.
It's mainly news from California this week, with DEA and LAPD raids leading the way, but also some snippets from Colorado and Montana.
Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past, in Drug War Chronicle, online here.
Just another run of the mill week of drug war law enforcement corruption, except having a state trooper involved in a major pot grow is fairly unusual.
A new poll has the Washington state pot legalization initiative leading with 50% support, but that doesn't leave a lot of room for a margin of comfort.
