Policial: Las historias de policÃas corruptos de esta semana
Un policÃa deshonesto de Chicago va preso y atrapan a un par de guardias de prisión.
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Marijuana: Colorado Ski Town to Vote on Legalizing Marijuana Possession
In 2005, voters in Denver approved the legalization of possession of up to an ounce of marijuana, though local authorities have since ignored that vote. Now, voters in the Colorado ski town of Breckenridge will get the same opportunity. A local initiative is headed for this November's ballot -- unless the town council just goes ahead and approves it first.
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CrÃtica de cine de la Crónica: "The War on Kids" (2009, Spectacle Films, 99 min., US$ 19,95)
Uno lo ve todo el tiempo: Un párvulo arrestado por besar a una compañera de clase, una estudiante de escuela intermediaria cacheada al desnudo en una caza desesperada de ibuprofeno, un alumno de secundaria preso por llevar un porro al colegio. Todo eso forma parte de <em>The War on Kids</em> [La guerra a los niños], de acuerdo con un nuevo documental del mismo nombre. Lo criticamos esta semana.
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Feature: Colorado Medical Marijuana Supporters Defeat Effort to Restrict Caregivers, Dispensaries
Medical marijuana supporters in Colorado won a major victory Monday night as the state Board of Health voted down a Department of Public Health and Environment proposal that would have strictly defined caregivers and limited them to providing for no more than five patients.
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More Big News: Needle Exchange Legislation Passes US House of Representatives
As I noted here two weeks ago, legislation to repeal the ban on use of federal AIDS funds for needle exchange programs was included in a House subcommittee's health budget bill. The language survived an attempt on the House floor to repeal it, and so has made it through the full House of Representatives.
Satisfyingly, the Congressman who tried to delete the language was Mark Souder, who also lost a committee vote on Tuesday to significantly gut his anti-student aid drug law. Souder's pro-AIDS amendment lost 211-218.
The flip side is that 49% percent of Congress voted to continue spreading HIV and Hepatitis throughout our communities.
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Rally to End the War on Drugs
Several organizations opposed to the drug war, including the Utah Libertarians, will be holding a rally to promote bringing an end to drug prohibition.
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Law Enforcement: New York Man Wins Settlement in Forced Body Cavity Search Suit
Albany, New York, sheriff's deputies suspected Tunde Clement was carrying drugs when he got off a bus from New York City in March 2006. They searched his backpack. Nothing. They strip-searched him. Nothing. Then the took him to a hospital, forcibly sedated him, and shoved a camera up his butt. Now, the county and the hospital are paying for their misdeeds.
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Marijuana: Cook County Board Passes Decriminalization Ordinance, But Veto Possibility Looms
Could decriminalization be coming to Chicagoland? The Cook County Board has approved it, but the Board president is making noises like he may veto it.
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Europe: British Prisons Install Methadone Vending Machines
You've heard of medical marijuana vending machines in Los Angeles, right? Well, the UK one-ups LA with methadone vending machines in its prisons.
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Sentencing: House Subcommittee Approves Reducing Federal Crack Cocaine Penalties
What a difference control of Congress makes! For years, pressure has been building to redress the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. Now, finally, a bill that would do that is moving in the House, and while it's a Democratic bill it's getting strong bipartisan support. Things are looking good in the Senate too.
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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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Feature: Winds of Change Are Blowing in Washington -- Drug Reforms Finally Move in Congress
As Congress approaches its August recess, it's time to take a look at the fate of drug reform legislation under the Democrats. No bills have reached the president's desk just yet, but the prospects are impressive on a number of key fronts.
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Financial Aid: House Committee Lightens Up on Students with Drug Possession Convictions
The Higher Education Act's infamous "Aid Elimination Penalty," or anti-drug provision, the brainchild of Indiana Republican Rep. Mark Souder, just got slimmed down as a House committee Tuesday voted to restrict its application only to students convicted of selling drugs, not those convicted simply of drug possession.
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Afghanistan: US War Planes Bomb the Hell Out of a Bunch of Poppy Seeds
The US war on opium poppy production in Afghanistan turned literal Tuesday when US war planes attacked and destroyed a giant pile of poppy seeds in Helmand province. That'll show those seeds!
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ONDCP: Drug Czar Again Reveals Shocking Gap in Vocabulary, Knowledge Base
Spoken like a true drug czar -- Gil Kerlikowske does his best John Walters impression and succeeds pretty well.
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Job Opportunity, Executive Director, Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative, Washington
The Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative is hiring a new executive director. IDPI mobilizes religious denominations and organizations, clergy, and other people of faith to promote drug policy reform proposals under serious current consideration in Congress and the states, while building public support for replacing drug prohibition with reasonable regulation.