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Chronicle Review Essay: Mexico's Drug Cartels
Mexico's drug cartels are exciting analytical and journalistic interest. Here, we review three new titles.
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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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Oklahoma House Passes Welfare Drug Test Bill, Includes Candidates
The drug testing frenzy in state legislatures continues, with the Oklahoma House passing a bill requiring testing for welfare recipients, and candidates for political office, too.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (wikimedia.org)
Colombia to Enact Drug Decriminalization
If Colombian President Santos has his way, you will soon be able to possess five grams of marijuana or a gram of cocaine in Colombia without fear of arrest or prosecution.
Google Hosts Massive Drug War Debate
Oh, by the way, this huge thing is happening in a hour. Familiar friends, foes, and random celebrities will be debating the drug war like never before. It will be delicious.
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Chronicle Book Review: "The Marijuana Conviction"
We read a classic text in marijuana policy reform, and see just why it is a classic.
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Irony Alert: Anti-Marijuana Newspaper Runs Ads for Pot Paraphernalia
Christian Science Monitor has a bit of a reputation for launching rabid attacks against the marijuana legalization movement, so you can imagine my surprise to find them advertising the high-end Volcano Vaporization System™ right next to an anti-legalization editorial.
Diacetylmorphine AKA pharmaceutical grade heroin (wikimedia.org)
Giving Addicts Heroin More Effective Than Methadone, Study Finds
Canadian researchers report that giving addicts maintenance doses of heroin is more cost-effective than giving them maintenance doses of methadone.
Bolivian President Evo Morales (wikimedia.org)
Morales Defends Coca-Chewing at UN Anti-Drug Meeting
Bolivian President Evo Morales told the UN Commission on Narcotics Drugs Monday that Bolivians have the right to chew coca leaves. Bolivia wants the leaf removed from the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, and has rejoined the treaty only with a reservation that it recognizes traditional coca use.
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Florida Bill to Drug Test State Employees Passes
Florida becomes the first state in the nation to pass a law requiring the random, suspicionless drug testing of state employees. It will most likely be challenged in the courts.