Southern California Man Dies in Drug Raid Shootout
A shoot-out that erupted Thursday afternoon when police in San Bernardino, California, followed a drug suspect to his home left one man dead and a Downey Police undercover officer seriously wounded....
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A Baltimore cop who insisted on arresting the wrong guy is in trouble, a suburban Chicago cop who tried to be a little too helpful to some women has lost his job, and a Tennessee cop facing federal...
View ArticleAnother Southern California Man Killed in Police Drug Investigation
Police doing a drug investigation in Riverside, California, shot and killed a man after he pointed a gun at them Tuesday afternoon. The as yet unnamed dead man becomes the 36th person to die in US...
View ArticleChronicle AM: USA Today Slams Asset Forfeiture, NY Times on AFT Drug Stash...
A new Maine legalization group lays out its vision, take your medical marijuana card when you go to Nevada next year, asset forfeiture gets ripped by USA Today, the New York Times takes a look at a...
View ArticleChronicle Book Review: Mexico on the Brink
Hidden Dangers: Mexico on the Brink of Disaster by Robert Joe Stout (2014, Sunbury Press, 210 pp., $16.95 PB)[image:1 align:right]Today is the official 104th anniversary of the beginning of the Mexican...
View ArticleChronicle AM: US Agents on Mexico Drug Raids, New Federal Cash Seizure...
Some House Republicans still want to mess with DC legalization, a key Washington state solon is planning a bill that would fold medical marijuana into the legal regulation system, federal officials...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Bad Cops in CO, CT MedMJ, VA Decrim Bill, WA Drug...
We have a couple of disturbing Colorado police stories, a marijuana decrim bill will be filed in Virginia, and a drug decrim one in Washington state, Connecticut patients seek to expand the list of...
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It never ends. More jail guards with contraband issues, another cop with a serious pill problem. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:right]In Tabor City, North Carolina, a Tabor Correctional Institute jail...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Green Friday, CA Drug Prisoners Walk Free, Mexico Crime Plan, N...
California's Prop 47 sentencing reform is kicking in with a vengeance, it's Green Friday in legal pot states, and there's a whole raft of international news. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:left...
View ArticleChronicle AM: CA MedMJ Organ Transplant Petition, PA Harm Reduction Law in...
Oregon's dispensary law continues to be thrashed out in the courts, a Pennsylvania 911 Good Samaritan and naloxone access law has gone into effect, Minnesota gets medical marijuana growers, there's a...
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A Houston cop gets caught transferring cocaine, a New York narc gets nailed for tipping off his neighborhood buddies about looming drug raids, and another prison guard goes down for contraband. Let's...
View ArticleChronicle AM: GOP Still Going After DC Pot Laws, FL Welfare Drug Test Law...
The GOP is yet to give up the ghost on blocking DC marijuana reforms, NYC Mayor de Blasio's new no-arrest pot possession policy is having an impact, Florida Gov. Rick Scott's pet welfare drug testing...
View ArticleWhite Phoenix Cop Shoots, Kills Unarmed Black Man in Attempted Drug Bust
A Phoenix police officer shot and killed an unarmed black man while responding to reports of a drug deal taking place Tuesday night. Rumain Brisbon, 34, becomes the 37th person to die in US domestic...
View ArticleFederal Appeals Court Blocks Florida Governor's Bid to Drug Test Welfare...
[This article was written in partnership with Alternet, and was originally published here.]Florida Governor Rick Scott's (R) drug testing crusade hit yet another roadblock Wednesday as a federal...
View ArticleChronicle AM: INCB Head Frets Over Pot, MS Welfare Drug Test Fiasco, SWAT...
Global anti-drug bureaucrats are grumbling about marijuana legalization in America, one New York county decides to do asset forfeiture for misdemeanor drug offenses, Mississippi's food stamp drug...
View ArticleChronicle AM: DC Pot Battle Still Unsettled, Federal Racial Profiling Ban,...
DC's marijuana reforms remain under threat from congressional Republicans, Washington state's pot-sellers are feeling burdened by taxes, California doctors reject denying transplants to medical...
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NYPD officers are involved in two out of three of our corrupt cop reports this week, and a pair of thieving San Francisco cops round out the rogues' gallery. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:right]In...
View ArticleIndiana Man Pursued By DEA Kills Self, Huge Stash Found
An Indiana man being pursued by the DEA and local police led law enforcement on a high-speed chase before crashing and then shooting himself Tuesday. Omar Eduardo Proano-Montano, 24, becomes the 38th...
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The beat goes on. A Texas drug dog officer snorts the training dope, a pair of married Indiana deputies get wrapped up in the new synthetics, and a Georgia judge goes down for trying to set up a woman...
View ArticleIndiana Meth Suspect Killed After Pursuit, Stand-Off
A Zionsville, Indiana, man targeted in a meth investigation was shot and killed by state police following a pursuit and stand-off Wednesday night. Brent Kyle Krout, 39, becomes the 39th person to die...
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