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Pregnancy: New Mexico Supreme Court Strikes Down Law Criminalizing Drug Use By Mothers-To-Be
by psmith, May 17, 2007, 03:15pm, (Issue #486)Sentencing: Nevada Supreme Court Justices Ask Legislature for More Discretion, More Funding for Drug Courts
by psmith, May 17, 2007, 02:15pm, (Issue #486)Latin America: Top Anti-Drug Official Gunned Down in Mexico City
by psmith, May 16, 2007, 10:59pm, (Issue #486)Europe: Hungarian Global Marijuana Marchers Sue Over Blocked Demonstration
by psmith, May 16, 2007, 10:15pm, (Issue #486)Australia: "Super Dope" Marijuana Scare Prompts Threats to Ban Bongs
by psmith, May 16, 2007, 09:45pm, (Issue #486)Fighting Meth With Misinformation in Idaho
by psmith, May 16, 2007, 03:59pmLaw Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
by psmith, May 15, 2007, 11:14pm, (Issue #486)"Cannabis Cash 'Funds Islamist Terrorism'"--Here we go again.
by psmith, May 15, 2007, 05:07pmTop anti-narcotics official slain in Mexico City
from Houston Chronicle, May 15, 2007Medical Marijuana: Illinois Bill Killed in Senate
by psmith, May 10, 2007, 07:40pm, (Issue #485)Feature: Turning Up the Heat on New York's Rockefeller Drug Laws (and the Politicians Who Fail to Fix Them)
by psmith, May 10, 2007, 07:27pm, (Issue #485)Feature: Global Marijuana Marches Take Place in More Than 200 Cities Worldwide
by psmith, May 10, 2007, 06:42pm, (Issue #485)Medical Marijuana: Minnesota Bill Headed For Final Vote in House, Facing Veto
by psmith, May 10, 2007, 02:27am, (Issue #485)Marijuana: Wisconsin Towns Join Decriminalization Trend
by psmith, May 10, 2007, 01:32am, (Issue #485)Europe: Vatican Registers First Drug Conviction
by psmith, May 10, 2007, 01:04am, (Issue #485)Public Health: DEA Puts Fentanyl OD Death Toll at More Than a Thousand
by psmith, May 09, 2007, 10:50pm, (Issue #485)Latin America: Colombia Bans Coca Products -- Except Coca-Cola
by psmith, May 09, 2007, 10:18pm, (Issue #485)Criminal Justice: Snapshots of the Drug War
by psmith, May 09, 2007, 07:50pm, (Issue #485)Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
by psmith, May 09, 2007, 05:01pm, (Issue #485)What the heck is going on in Licking County, Ohio?
by psmith, May 09, 2007, 01:53pmInitial Reports on the Global Marijuana Marches
by psmith, May 07, 2007, 02:44pmMedical Marijuana: By a Veto-Proof Margin, Rhode Island Legislature Passes Bill to Keep It
by psmith, May 03, 2007, 09:33pm, (Issue #484)Feature: Guilty Pleas Only the Beginning in Aftermath of Atlanta "Drug Raid" Killing of 92-Year Old
by psmith, May 03, 2007, 07:57pm, (Issue #484)Feature: US Sentencing Commission Announces Reduction in Crack Cocaine Sentences
by psmith, May 03, 2007, 06:46pm, (Issue #484)Feature: Blacks, Hispanics More Likely to Be Searched at Traffic Stops -- But That Is Not Proof of Racial Profiling, Justice Department Claims
by psmith, May 03, 2007, 05:22pm, (Issue #484)Weekly: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
by psmith, May 03, 2007, 01:20am, (Issue #484)Medical Marijuana: Minnesota Bill Passes Senate, House Version Moving Too
by psmith, May 03, 2007, 01:06am, (Issue #484)Methamphetamine: Senators Feinstein and Grassley Introduce Bill to Heighten Penalties for Meth Dealers Who Flavor Their Product
by psmith, May 03, 2007, 01:01am, (Issue #484)Pain Medicine: Dr. Hurwitz Convicted of 16 Counts in Retrial
by psmith, May 03, 2007, 12:56am, (Issue #484)Marijuana: It's That Time Again -- Marijuana Marches Set for Saturday in More Than 200 Cities Worldwide
by psmith, May 03, 2007, 12:50am, (Issue #484)Sonoma County and the Future of Marijuana
by psmith, May 01, 2007, 02:41pmFeature: Drug Czar Reluctantly Admits Cocaine Prices Have Dropped in Quietly Released Report
by psmith, April 25, 2007, 06:22pm, (Issue #483)Feature: Cannabis Nation Celebrates 4/20 -- Dozens of Campus Actions, Mass Arrests in Denver, Foiled in Las Vegas
by psmith, April 25, 2007, 02:15pm, (Issue #483)Southwest Asia: Drug Trade a Pillar of the Afghan Economy
by psmith, April 24, 2007, 10:07pm, (Issue #483)Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
by psmith, April 24, 2007, 09:14pm, (Issue #483)Europe: Belgium, Germany Need to Open Their Own Cannabis Coffee Shops, Says Dutch Mayor
by psmith, April 24, 2007, 09:11pm, (Issue #483)Search and Seizure: Supreme Court Takes Up Rights of Vehicle Passengers
by psmith, April 24, 2007, 09:06pm, (Issue #483)Latin America: As Blood Continues to Flow, Mexico's Opposition Calls for Drug Legalization -- Starting with the US
by psmith, April 24, 2007, 08:57pm, (Issue #483)[Amherst] Rally Aims For Change in Marijuana Laws
from Chicopee-Holyoke Republican, April 22, 2007Police Arrest 78 People at [Denver] Marijuana Rally
from CBS4-TV Denver, April 22, 2007Hundreds Rally in Denver to Support Marijuana Legalization
from Rocky Mountain News, April 22, 2007Charges Dismissed Against Loretta Nall; Happy 4/20 To All of Y'all!
by psmith, April 20, 2007, 05:42pmSentencing: New York Assembly Passes New Rockefeller Law Reforms
by psmith, April 19, 2007, 10:14pm, (Issue #482)The Drug Debate: Republican Former Senator Calls for New Look at Drug Policies
by psmith, April 19, 2007, 10:01pm, (Issue #482)Feature: In Britain, Labor's Decade-Long Drug War a Failure, New Report Finds
by psmith, April 19, 2007, 09:41pm, (Issue #482)Feature: Punk Rocker's Jailing Raises Questions About Field Drug Tests
by psmith, April 19, 2007, 08:31pm, (Issue #482)Pain Medicine: Judge Dismisses Most Serious Charges in Hurwitz Retrial
by psmith, April 19, 2007, 04:23pm, (Issue #482)Media: The Drug Truth Network on YouTube
by psmith, April 19, 2007, 04:03pm, (Issue #482)Sentencing: Maryland Passes Reform Measure for Drug Offenders
by psmith, April 18, 2007, 11:28pm, (Issue #482)Medical Marijuana: Feds to Retry Ed Rosenthal in Futile Prosecution
by psmith, April 18, 2007, 11:25pm, (Issue #482)Europe: British Junior Docs Call for Marijuana-Based Medicine Prescriptions
by psmith, April 18, 2007, 11:21pm, (Issue #482)Salvia Divinorum: Vermont Town Gets Fight Over Sales Ban
by psmith, April 18, 2007, 11:15pm, (Issue #482)Latin America: More Trouble in Peru's Coca Fields
by psmith, April 18, 2007, 11:10pm, (Issue #482)Peru's Garcia Seems Determined to Stoke Conflict With Coca Growers
by psmith, April 16, 2007, 01:50pmPeru's Coca Farmers Start Indefinite Strike Against Government
from Living in Peru, April 16, 2007Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
by psmith, April 12, 2007, 10:01pm, (Issue #481)Feature: The War on Salvia Divinorum Heats Up
by psmith, April 12, 2007, 09:52pm, (Issue #481)Feature: Oregon's Messy Medical Marijuana Statehouse Politics
by psmith, April 12, 2007, 08:36pm, (Issue #481)Medical Marijuana: Bill to Make Rhode Island Law Permanent Passes House, Senate Committees
by psmith, April 12, 2007, 01:07pm, (Issue #481)Medical Marijuana: Minnesota Bill Passes Senate Committee
by psmith, April 12, 2007, 12:58pm, (Issue #481)Asia: China Sets Up Drug User Data Bank
by psmith, April 12, 2007, 12:54pm, (Issue #481)Marijuana: After Denver Votes to Legalize It, Cops Arrest Even More
by psmith, April 12, 2007, 12:51pm, (Issue #481)Europe: French Anti-Globalist Activist and Presidential Candidate Says Legalize Marijuana
by psmith, April 12, 2007, 12:47pm, (Issue #481)Medical Marijuana: California Begins Taxing Dispensaries
by psmith, April 12, 2007, 12:44pm, (Issue #481)Voting Rights: Florida Clemency Board Votes to Restore to Most Felons
by psmith, April 05, 2007, 09:30pm, (Issue #480)Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations," by Peter Andreas and Ethan Nadelmann. (2006, Oxford University Press, 333 pp., $29.95 HB)
by psmith, April 05, 2007, 09:14pm, (Issue #480)Feature: Among Architects, a Prison Design Boycott Gains Steam
by psmith, April 05, 2007, 07:35pm, (Issue #480)Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
by psmith, April 05, 2007, 04:30pm, (Issue #480)Information: NIDA Drug Library Closed Due to Budget Woes
by psmith, April 05, 2007, 04:25pm, (Issue #480)The Presidency: Past Drug Use Would Disqualify Nominee for Only 19% of Americans, Poll Finds
by psmith, April 05, 2007, 04:22pm, (Issue #480)Methamphetamine: Feds Make First Cold Medicine Bust Under Combat Meth Act
by psmith, April 04, 2007, 11:07pm, (Issue #480)Methamphetamine: Nevada Governor's Working Group Issues Preliminary Report
by psmith, April 04, 2007, 11:02pm, (Issue #480)Medical Marijuana: New Mexico Becomes Twelfth State to Approve It
by psmith, April 04, 2007, 10:59pm, (Issue #480)Harm Reduction: New Mexico Governor Signs Overdose Death Reduction Measure
by psmith, April 04, 2007, 10:56pm, (Issue #480)Peru's President Looking for Trouble in Coca Lands
by psmith, April 03, 2007, 01:12pm[New Mexico] Governor Signs Medical Marijuana Bill
from KOB TV 4, April 02, 2007Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "Beat the Heat: How to Handle Encounters With Law Enforcement," by Katya Komisaruk (2003, AK Press, 192 pp., $16.00 PB)
by psmith, March 29, 2007, 09:05pm, (Issue #479)Feature: Drugs Should Be Classified According to Their Harms, British Experts Say -- And They're Not Now
by psmith, March 29, 2007, 08:15pm, (Issue #479)Marijuana: Cincinnati City Council Votes to Extend Tough Ordinance
by psmith, March 29, 2007, 04:09pm, (Issue #479)Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
by psmith, March 29, 2007, 03:27pm, (Issue #479)Middle East: Marijuana Not Kosher for Passover, Says Green Leaf Party
by psmith, March 29, 2007, 03:21pm, (Issue #479)Marijuana: Bob Barr to Lobby for Marijuana Policy Project
by psmith, March 28, 2007, 10:59pm, (Issue #479)Medical Marijuana: New Hampshire Bill Narrowly Defeated
by psmith, March 28, 2007, 10:56pm, (Issue #479)South America: Bolivia Moves to Block Coca Crop Expansion
by psmith, March 28, 2007, 10:54pm, (Issue #479)Law Enforcement: The Drug War Dominates Grand Jury Action in One Ohio County
by psmith, March 28, 2007, 10:51pm, (Issue #479)Law Enforcement: Atlanta Police Change Policies in Wake of Fatal Drug Raid
by psmith, March 28, 2007, 10:47pm, (Issue #479)STATS is a resource you should know about.
by psmith, March 28, 2007, 03:52pmThe Candy Counter: Georgia Set to Ban Sales of Marijuana-Flavored Lollipops to Kids
by psmith, March 22, 2007, 09:38pm, (Issue #478)Feature: Prison Rape and the War on Drugs
by psmith, March 22, 2007, 09:12pm, (Issue #478)Feature: Reefer Madness Strikes a Leading British Newspaper
by psmith, March 22, 2007, 05:39pm, (Issue #478)Feature: "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" Free Speech Case Goes to the Supreme Court
by psmith, March 22, 2007, 03:30pm, (Issue #478)Medical Marijuana: Minnesota Bill Approved By Second House Panel
by psmith, March 21, 2007, 11:03pm, (Issue #478)Europe: Heroin Substitute Buprenorphine Now Available in Scotland
by psmith, March 21, 2007, 11:01pm, (Issue #478)Europe: Clamor for Licit Medicinal Afghan Opium Grows Among British MPs
by psmith, March 21, 2007, 10:57pm, (Issue #478)Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
by psmith, March 21, 2007, 10:54pm, (Issue #478)More Reefer Madness in the UK Press
by psmith, March 20, 2007, 03:50pmThe Independent on Sunday Reverses Itself on Decrim, Warns of Killer Skunk, Reefer Madness
by psmith, March 19, 2007, 04:33pmPeru Suspends Coca Eradication in Key Area
from Reuters, March 16, 2007Sentencing: Tyrone Brown is a Free Man!
by psmith, March 15, 2007, 09:23pm, (Issue #477)Harm Reduction: Los Angeles County Okays Needle Exchange Program
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