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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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Drug arrests AND violent crime are down in San Francisco. (wikimedia.org)
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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White House Rebuffs Marijuana Legalization Petitions
Can you guess the drug czar's official response to those White House marijuana legalization petitions? We thought you could.
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Video: Former Mexican President Says Time to Legalize Drugs
Video from October 18 Cato Institute forum featuring former President of Mexico Vicente Fox (Cato's Ian Vasquez moderating):
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White House Rebuffs Marijuana Legalization Petitions
Can you guess the drug czar's official response to those White House marijuana legalization petitions? We thought you could. But did the White House guess that marijuana legalization would be their most popular petition topic?
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Simultaneous Worldwide Drug Legalization, Anyone?
Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos has some interesting ideas about international drug policy.
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Trucker Shoots Self Before Roadside Pot Bust
A trucker carrying a load of weed north through Texas apparently shot himself rather than face arrest after being pulled over with more than 600 pounds. That's drug war fatality number 42 for the year.
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Chicago to Decriminalize Marijuana Possession?
A proposal to decriminalize the possession of up to 10 grams of pot is headed before the Chicago city council next week.
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Still Time to Get to the International Drug Policy Reform Conference, LA, 11/2-5
Every two years drug policy reformers from across the United States and around the world come to the International Drug Policy Reform Conference to listen, learn, network and strategize together for change. This year the conference is in Los Angeles, November 2-5, and StoptheDrugWar.org is a partner.
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Canada Mandatory Minimum Crime Bill Set to Pass [FEATURE]
It looks like Canada's Conservative government is finally going to get the ugly crime bill it has long wanted. That will mean mandatory minimums for growing as few as six marijuana plants.