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Between now and the seating of a new Congress after the 2012 elections, drug reform is going to be a tough slog on Capitol Hill. But that doesn't mean reformers are going away, or that there aren't battles to be fought and won.

The new Humala government in Peru sought coca grower support by promising to end forced eradication, and now the growers are holding the government to its word.

Congress took a modest step last year to reforming the draconian federal sentences it put in place 25 years ago for drug offenses. More is needed, and your help is needed to make that happen.

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, in November, and StoptheDrugWar.org is a partner.

The DEA has responded to the latest synthetic drug panic in the only way it knows how -- by enacting bans. This time it's the "bath salts" drugs under attack.

A bill to allow a four-county, eight-year pilot project for industrial hemp production has passed the California legislature and awaits Gov. Jerry Brown's signature.

After a state appeals court effectively shut down dispensaries in Michigan, medical marijuana patients rallied in large numbers in Lansing, the state capital.

The Hawaii teachers' union has finally, definitively fended off state demands that it accept random suspicionless drug testing of teachers.

A Missouri technical college is the first public college in the country to demand mandatory suspicionless drug testing of students, and it will likely be the first in the country to be sued for it too.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) wants to drug test people seeking unemployment benefits so badly she's willing to lie about it.

A dirty Chicago cop goes to prison, a crooked small-town New York officer faces the same fate, a Florida cop facing trial for peddling meth has gone on the lam, and four suburban Chicago cops are being sued.

Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.

The Drug Policy Alliance is hiring for two high-level positions in its NYC headquarters.