This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
A Florida police chief gets caught with online pills, a North Carolina jail guard gets caught peddling pills, a former Pennsylvania cop heads to the slammer for cooking meth, and a Seattle-area former...
View ArticleChronicle AM: CO MedMJ Crackdown, Heroin ODs Up, Mexican Soldiers Charged in...
A Colorado legislative panel wants to tighten up on medical marijuana, a South Carolina legislative panel studies medical marijuana, the CDC says heroin overdoses are up, a North Carolina county...
View ArticleGeorgia Homeowner Killed in Fruitless Drug Raid
A Georgia SWAT team shot and killed an armed homeowner during a September 24 drug raid sparked by the word of a self-confessed meth addict and burglar who had robbed the property the previous day. No...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Dallas to Stop Pot Arrests, Rick Steves Campaigns, DEA Agent...
It's crunch time for those marijuana legalization initiatives, Dallas will quit making small-time pot arrests, Colorado's governor disses the voters, Pennsylvania's medical marijuana bill is stalled,...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Carl Sagan Pot Papers Released, Supreme Court Takes Up Highway...
The Library of Congress unveils writings on marijuana and drug reform from astronomer Carl Sagan, pot pops up in the Oklahoma Senate race, the Supreme Court will take up the issue of how long police...
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A suburban St. Louis cop spoils his department's first day in operation, a Minnesota jail guard gets charged with slinging meth, and Denver cops have to pay out big time for a bad drug raid. Let's get...
View ArticleChronicle AM: CA Decrim Report, Afroman's Back, Pill ODs Drop, Colombia...
A report on decriminalization in California has good news, state-level marijuana legalization could be an impetus for the US to modify international drug treaties, pain pill deaths are down (but heroin...
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A pill-popping, prescription-forging North Carolina narc, a pair of lying New York City narcs, a crack-slinging Baltimore schools police officer, and a pot-growing California prison guard are among the...
View ArticleChronicle AM: UT Defelonization Proposed, TX Pot Bills Coming, Afghan Opium...
Texas will see marijuana reform legislation next year, "Brownie Mary" Democratic Clubs come to California's East Bay, Utah will consider drug defelonization, Afghan poppy fiasco, and more. Let's get to...
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A deputy US marshal goes gangster, more prison and jail guards get in trouble, and another pain pill-peddling police officer goes to prison. Just another week in the drug war. Let's get to it:[image:1...
View ArticleChronicle AM: GOP Rep. Tackles Asset Forfeiture, OR Measure 91 Support, CA...
James Sensenbrenner is on the asset forfeiture case, Oregon's Measure 91 picks up some big name endorsements, dispensaries get shut down in San Diego and raided by the DEA in LA, fall-out continues in...
View ArticleChronicle AM: OR Measure 91 Race Tightens, ACLU Petition on Police...
There's a scary poll out in Oregon, the Drug Policy Alliance grades the House of Representatives, the ACLU has a petition to stop the Pentagon sending surplus military equipment to police forces, and...
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New York, San Francisco, and Phoenix all had corrupt cop cases this week. So did East Orange, New Jersey. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:left]In East Orange, New Jersey, an East Orange police officer...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Pot Legalization Trifecta, CA Sentencing Reform Passes, FL...
Marijuana wins in Alaska, DC, and Oregon; medical marijuana barely loses in Florida, California defelonizes drug possession offenses, New Jersey reforms the bail system, and more. Let's get to...
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Trouble is brewing in Detroit and DC, a Texas narc gets in trouble, so does a Miami cop, so does a Camden cop and a suburban St. Louis one. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:right]In Washington, DC, a...
View ArticlePot Arrests Drop, But Still 1.5 Million Drug Arrests Last Year [FEATURE]
More than 1.5 million people were arrested for drug offenses in the US last year, and more than 693,000 of those for marijuana offenses. The figures come from the FBI's 2013 Uniform Crime Report, which...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Historic Brit Drug Debate Looms, NYPD to End Pot Arrests, More...
Look out! Here comes the next wave of marijuana legalization efforts. Also, NYPD will stop its penny-ante pot arrests, Oregon DAs ponder dropping pot charges, the FBI's annual arrest figures are out,...
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Busy, busy. A crooked FBI agent is wreaking havoc with drug cases in DC, rip-off cops get busted in Chicago and Philly, an Alabama cop gets nailed for making a woman cook meth for him, and more. Let's...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Afghan Opium Funds Elections, Big WA Pot Auction, NV Signatures...
More poppies are growing than ever in Afghanistan, and they helped fund the recent presidential election; the UNODC head tsk-tsks at US legalization votes, Nevada petitioners hand in 2X the signatures...
View ArticleChronicle AM: NYC Council Leader Says Legalize It, UT Drug Defelonization...
New York's city council speaker says legalize it, there are medical marijuana moves in Connecticut and Maryland, a Utah commission suggests defelonizing drug possession, a Peruvian petition seeks to...
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