US Drug Arrest Rate Dropping, But Still Sky High
The arrest rate for drug violations in the US has decreased for the last four years, but still remains more than twice as high as rates in the early 1
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Mexico Drug War Update
The ugliness continues unabated in Mexico, and another blogger has joined the ranks of the murdered. Chronicle
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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Sleazy, sleazy.
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Mexico Drug War Update
The ugliness continues unabated in Mexico, and another blogger has joined the ranks of the murdered.
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Kalamazoo Passes Marijuana Lowest Priority Initiative
Voters in Kalamazoo, Michigan, overwhelmingly approved a ballot initiative making the use or possession of small amounts of marijuana by adults the lowest law enforcement priority.
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Kalamazoo Passes Marijuana Lowest Priority Initiative
Kalamazoo has become the first Michigan city to pass an initiative making small time marijuana use or possession by adults the lowest law enforcement priority.
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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Sleazy, sleazy. That's what a Missouri drug court monitor is accused of being, plus we have a crooked Puerto Rican cop and a sticky-fingered Louisiana narc.
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US Drug Arrest Rate Dropping, But Still Sky High
The US drug arrest rate has been declining slightly for the last four years, but is still more than double the rate at the beginning of Reagan's war on drugs in 1980, an analysis of FBI crime data has found.
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Dutch Bar Foreigners from Southern Cannabis Cafes
Coffee shops in Holland's south will soon be closing their doors to foreigners, and the rest of the country is set to follow in another year.
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Bolivia Restores Ties with US, But Rejects DEA
Bolivia has restored diplomatic relations with the US after throwing out the DEA and the US ambassador three years ago, but the DEA is not welcome back.
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Missouri Marijuana Legalization Initiatives Approved for Circulation
An effort to put marijuana legalization on the November 2012 ballot has passed a first hurdle in Missouri.
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Decisions, Decisions...
The fight to stop the drug war has entered its possibly most critical time to date, a time of major challenges but also unprecedented opportunities. We need your help today to decide whether StoptheDrugWar.org can enter this moment at full strength.
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Mexico Drug War Update
Mexican drug trafficking organizations make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the prohibitionist drug policies of the US government. Since Mexican president Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and called the armed forces into the fight against the so-called cartels, prohibition-related violence has killed around 40,000 people, including more than 15,000 last year.
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This Week in History
Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.
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Federal Crack Cocaine Prisoners Start Coming Home [FEATURE]
The first hundreds of what could be more than 12,000 federal crack offenders to win retroactive sentence reductions began walking out of federal prisons Tuesday, but there is much more work to do.
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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
An investigation into a dope-slinging Brooklyn cop has opened a window on a wider culture of corruption in the NYPD, plus your typical handful of corrupt cop cases.
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US Reps, CA AG Chide Feds on Medical Marijuana
That federal offensive against medical marijuana distribution in California is rubbing a lot of people the wrong way, including a growing number of elected officials.
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SF "De Facto Drug Decriminalization" Sees Violent Crime Decline
Fewer drug arrests mean more violent crime, right? Wrong, at least in San Francisco.
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National Movement of Formerly Incarcerated Kicks Off 11/2 in Los Angeles
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