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Tune in to Facebook Live -- or come to our event if you're at the UN -- to learn about how Facebook and other media are being exploited by authoritarians in ways that are causing massive human rights violations, including in the drug war.

Our ally Senator Trillanes is facing possible jailing, maybe as soon as tomorrow, for opposing Duterte's drug war killing campaign.

StoptheDrugWar.org condemns the Duterte administration's illegal move to imprison a second prominent drug war critic, and the court system's strained logic going along with it.

The cofounder of the Chicago Recovery Alliance and pioneer of naloxone for overdose reversal passed unexpectedly this week at age 59.

The rise of authoritarian or authoritarian political figures has been accompanied by calls for both sanctioned and extra-legal government violence in their crime and drug policies. This event, held in association with the UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in New York, will focus primarily but not exclusively on the situation in the Philippines. We will also examine the ramifications of President Trump's call to administer the death penalty for drug trafficking.

Leading Philippine opposition figure Senator Antonio "Sonny" Trillanes will address our side event at the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs meeting this Thursday March 15.

The ICC is a long and uncertain road. But this is an important first step for stopping the drug war killings, restoring rule of law, and seeking justice. We commend Ms. Bensouda for her leadership. More soon, but in the meanwhile watch her announcement.

StoptheDrugWar.org has internships this semester and following in foreign policy, legislative advocacy, writing, nonprofit administration, and technical work.

Words from the US president make a global impact, and some of Trump's words about the drug war have been among the worst.

The Trump administration is going after marijuana legalization. Here's what we think about it.

Last week we warned that hardliners in Washington are trying to undo the progress we've made in stopping the drug war. Your support is needed the last few days of this year to fight back.

This Sunday is the UN's annual Human Rights Day. It's never been more important to work for human rights than now, including for drug policy reformers.

As issue #1000 of the Drug War Chronicle newsletter approaches, we ask you to take advocacy actions, we ask for your financial support, and we stop to remember one of reform's best allies.

For the first time since becoming law in 2014, the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment (formerly known as the Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment) is in danger of not being renewed.

This bill responds to the Philippines drug war killings, in which well over 10,000 people have been killed extrajudicially without trial by police and vigilantes. The legislation would place human rights conditions on law enforcement assistance to the Philippines. It would also fund positive public health programs for substance use issues, as well as the work of Philippine human rights defenders.

This is our latest advocacy effort opposing the brutal drug war killings taking place under the Duterte administration in the Philippines.

The 2017 International Drug Policy Reform Conference is the major biannual gathering of drug policy reformers from around the world.

The 2017 International Drug Policy Reform Conference is the major biannual gathering of drug policy reformers from around the world.

The 2017 International Drug Policy Reform Conference is the major biannual gathering of drug policy reformers from around the world.

The 2017 International Drug Policy Reform Conference is the major biannual gathering of drug policy reformers from around the world.

The International Drug Policy Reform Conference is meeting this fall in Atlanta. The organizers don't want money to be an object.

Human rights affects drug policy, and the Donald Trump's rhetoric gives human rights defenders much cause for concern.

StoptheDrugWar.org needs your support to protect reform from the Trump administration and win new victories.

The president-elect's nominee for Attorney General is a big-time drug warrior who could derail both sentencing reform and marijuana legalization. Please write your Senators in opposition to this nomination.

26 US Senators earned an "F" in marijuana policy reform in a recent report. Most were Republicans, but there were four Democrats.

StoptheDrugWar.org's has a focused mission at this incredibly promising time in drug policy reform, one that is making a special difference. But our ability to move it forward depends on the generosity of our donors.

ProCon.org is a series of in-depth web sites presenting information and views from on current issues, several with relevance to drug policy. This is the last in a six week series of info items from ProCon.org appearing in Drug War Chronicle -- this one returning to MedicalMarijuana.procon.org -- and we encourage you to check it out.

Please support tomorrow's global day of action -- "Support. Don't Punish." -- with social media, by taking a photo for the global Photo Project, or by attending an event, especially our demonstration here in Washington, DC!

This message is from our June sponsor, the Cannabis Industry Association, which is holding The Cannabis Business Summit & Expo 2015 from June 29-July 1 in Denver. Discounts are available for StoptheDrugWar.org readers!

ProCon.org is a series of in-depth web sites presenting information and views from on current issues, several with relevance to drug policy. The Chronicle is currently running a series of info items from ProCon.org -- this one from felonvoting.procon.org -- and we encourage you to check it out.

Your help is needed to advance our global drug policy reform campaign and to continue publishing this newsletter.

New York has closed it application process for those wishing to get one of the state's 5 permits to open a medical cannabis dispensary. Each permit would entitle the holder to open four dipsnsaries. In total, 20 dispensaries would be opened in a state with a population of over 19 million people.