Chronicle AM: Big CA Pot Legalization Init Coming Soon, Italian Pot...
We're waiting for the big one to drop in California, there's pot arrest expungement news from Jamaica and Ohio, Colorado rejects medical marijuana for PTSD, Chris Christie talks crime and drug policy,...
View ArticleInterview with "The Cartel" Author Don Winslow [FEATURE]
This article was written in collaboration with AlterNet and first appeared here. Internationally acclaimed novelist Don Winslow's The Cartel, a hard-hitting and gut-wrenching tale of the Mexican drug...
View ArticleChronicle AM: ResponsibleOhio Comes Up Short -- Maybe, MI Dispensary Busts,...
Ohio election officials have disqualified more than half the signatures gathered for the ResponsibleOhio initiative, but the battle isn't over; a Michigan legalization initiative gets rolling, an...
View ArticleChronicle AM: The Case of the Dead ND Student Snitch, Brit Police Force De...
There will be an open container law for weed in Washington state, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) files a bill to expunge some federal marijuana offense records, cops in one British county effectively...
View ArticleChronicle AM: CA Blue Ribbon Marijuana Report is Out, DEA Criticized for...
A long-awaited (and overdue) report on California marijuana policy reforms is out, an Arizona appeals court rules that the odor of marijuana in a medical marijuana state is not sufficient grounds for a...
View ArticleThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Jail guards smuggling dope, cops helping drug dealers, cops ripping off drug dealers. Familiar stories, repeated over and over. Here's this week's bunch. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:left]In...
View ArticleMedical Marijuana Update
There's medical marijuana news from the far Pacific, with Hawaii okaying dispensaries and Guam releasing draft medical marijuana regulations, plus more.[image:1 align:right]ColoradoLast Wednesday,...
View ArticleChronicle AM: ResponsibleOhio Fights On, GA Cop Indicted in Baby Boo-Boo SWAT...
ResponsibleOhio has about a week to come up with 40,000 more signatures, more Americans than ever admit smoking pot, e-sports is about to begin drug testing, a Georgia cop gets indicted for lying about...
View ArticleChronicle AM: OR Gov Signs Marijuana Sales Bill, More British Cops Turning...
Any adult will be able to buy marijuana at Oregon dispensaries beginning October 1, some British police are moving toward de facto decriminalization, dirty Philly cops beat a corruption rap and are now...
View ArticleThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Probation officers on drugs, perjuring narcs, and cops helping out drug dealers. Just another week of drug war-related police corruption. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:right]In Waynesville, North...
View ArticleFour July Drug War Deaths
The recent drug war killing of South Carolina teenager Zachary Hammond is drawing national attention, but he wasn't the only one to be killed by police enforcing drug laws in the month of July. At...
View ArticleMemphis Cop Killed After Interrupting $20 Marijuana Deal
The Memphis police officer who was shot and killed last Saturday night died after approaching a vehicle and interrupting an apparent marijuana transaction. Officer Sean Bolton was shot in the head...
View ArticleThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
We have a Philadelphia twofer this week, an Indiana cop who killed himself after getting busted stealing pain pills, an Oklahoma K9 cop popped for stealing dope, another jail guard in trouble, and...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Judge Throws Out More Cases Linked to Dirty Philly Narcs, India...
An Oregon congressman calls for down-scheduling marijuana, an Oklahoma US senator wants to punish tribes that allow marijuana, Boston's first dispensary is likely coming soon, drug hair-testing for...
View ArticleThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
A North Carolina cop already in prison for stealing pain pills is now charged with marijuana trafficking, a Texas narc gets probation for stealing and using drug dog training drugs, and another prison...
View ArticleChronicle AM: WY MedMJ Init Underway, DOJ Investigating Police Killing of SC...
CBD cannabis oil goes on sale in England, a medical marijuana initiative is getting underway in Wyoming, the Justice Department will look into the police killing of teenager Zach Hammond in a...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Utah SWAT Raids Almost All Drugs, Bolivia Reduces Coca Growing...
A Wisconsin tribe may legalize marijuana, Ohio foes line up against the legalization initiative there, more Washington state dispensaries will be forced to close, a Utah SWAT reporting law shows what...
View ArticleThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
A DARE cop gets popped for ripping off the program, another jail guard goes down, a federal cop gets busted after his meth lab explodes, and more. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:right]In Opelousas,...
View ArticleChronicle AM: First Las Vegas MedMJ Shop to Open, Peru to Start Shooting Down...
A Wisconsin tribe moves toward legal marijuana, Oakland's effort to back the Harborside dispensary gets shot down in federal court, Peru wants to shoot down drug planes, both major Kentucky governor...
View ArticleThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
More jail guards in trouble, a DEA agent gets popped for child porn, and a Mississippi cop gets fired after getting caught in a major marijuana deal. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:right]In...
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