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Montreal Agency Calls for Four Safe Injection Sites

Montreal wants four safe injection sites for hard drug users.

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Barney Frank's Awesome Marijuana Legalization Rant

If you haven't seen this yet, please click away my friends, for it is glorious.

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Opponents of Medical Marijuana Get Humiliated in New York Times

Last week's NYT editorial from fanatical anti-pot crusader David Evans generated some powerful responses from readers. Here's my favorite.

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US Prison Population in First Decline Since 1972

The number of people in prison in the US has dropped for the first time since 1972, and the number of people under correctional supervision has declined for the second year in a row.

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Congress Votes to Restore Needle Exchange Funding Ban

Two years ago this week, after years of advocacy by public health and harm reduction advocates, the long-standing ban on federa

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Amnesty International Condemns Iran Drug Executions

Amnesty International has called on Iran to stop executing people for drug offenses, saying the Islamic Republic has embarked o

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Breaking: Congress Votes to Kill People

[image:1 align:right]Earlier this week we alerted our email subscribers and web site readers that Repu

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Medical Marijuana Update

Busy, busy, busy. Here's this week's medical marijuana news digest. Chronicle story here.

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US House Votes to Ban New Synthetic Drugs

As expected, the House of Representatives has passed a bill banning synthetic stimulants and cannabinoids.

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Teens Rejecting Alcohol, Tobacco, Selecting Marijuana [FEATURE]

The annual Monitoring the Future survey of high school students find cigarette and alcohol use down, but marijuana use up. 

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Obama's Drug Czar Blames YOU for Increased Teen Marijuana Use

[inline:marijuanamakesyougay-cropped.jpg align=right]Just when you thought the medical marijuana debate couldn’t get any uglier, the Drug Czar shows up at your doorstep demanding to know why you want to drug the children.

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Obama's Attack on Medical Marijuana Wins Endorsement from Crazy Person

[inline:medicalmarijuanawheelchair.jpeg align=right]Last month, I questioned an absurd claim from the White House that President Obama has been "clear and consistent" in his approach to medical marijuana, rather than erratic and hostile. The facts of the matter are so plain that it feels silly to even debate it further, but this quote from anti-marijuana zealot and youth drug testing cheerleader David Evans of the Drug-Free Schools Coalition got my attention:

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Sheriff Will Pay You $100 to Wear a Wire and Ask People to Sell You Drugs

[inline:undercoverbuy.jpg align=right]Stupid silver-bullet strategies to win the war on drugs are as common as the reckless zealots who dream them up, but rarely does one find an example so deeply absurd and irresponsible as this.

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Fixing Our Drug Policy Will Require a Hatchet, Not a Scalpel

I have a new piece at Huffington Post discussing recent claims from the Drug Czar's office that the Obama Administration is working hard to "reform" our drug policy. We've reached an interesting moment in the debate when both sides are wrapping themselves in the flag of reform. 

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US House Set to Pass Bad Drug Bills [FEATURE]

Going in the face of an ever-increasing clamor to reform decades of failed drug policies, the US House of Representatives is poised to pass two bills that promise more of the same. 

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New Canadian Drug Reform Coalition Emerges [FEATURE]

Even as the Canadian federal government presses ahead with its draconian crime and drugs bill, a new coalition for Canadian drug reform has

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This Week in History

Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past. In the Chronicle, here.

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Mexico Drug War Update

Some congressional Republicans want to know why the DEA is laundering money for drug cartels.

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