Double Standard? Marijuana or Hemp? DEA Indian Tribe Raid Raises Questions...
This article was produced in collaboration with AlterNet and will appear at http://www.alternet.org/drugs/.Taking advantage of a 2014 Justice Department memo giving Indian tribes a green light to...
View ArticleThree More Drug War Deaths This Month
A SWAT team member in Ohio shot and killed an unarmed businessman, and SWAT teams in South Carolina and Mississippi killed two more people in drug enforcement on the same day this week. There is also...
View ArticleChronicle AM: OH Votes on Legalization Today, New Big Bucks CA Init Unveiled,...
It's election day in Ohio, a big money California legalization initiative rolls out, there's another national poll with a majority for marijuana legalization, Ireland takes big steps toward harm...
View ArticleThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Another week, another sticky-fingered cop, another cop protecting dealers, and another jailer smuggling dope. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:right]In Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a former drug task force...
View ArticleThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
This week, we have a crooked jail and prison guard trifecta and a Border Patrol agent caught up with the Gulf Cartel. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:left]In Camden, New Jersey, a Camden County jail...
View ArticleThe 2015 International Drug Reform Conference is Next Week in DC! [FEATURE]
This article was produced in collaboration with AlterNet and first appeared here. The world's premier drug policy reform conference is set for next week in suburban Washington, DC. Hosted by the Drug...
View ArticleChronicle AM: DEA Snitching Issues, Dutch Towns Want Regulated Marijuana...
[image:1 align:left]Marijuana PolicyCherokee Chief Vetoes Marijuana Legalization Study Resolution. The principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Patrick Lambert, has vetoed a resolution...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Autopsy Claims Hogtied Man Was Killed By LSD, MA Init Hands in...
[image:1 align:right caption:true]Marijuana PolicyMassachusetts Legalization Initiative Campaign Hands in Signatures. The Marijuana Policy Project-backed Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol...
View ArticleDid "LSD Toxicity" Kill Troy Goode, Or Was It The Police Hogtie? [FEATURE]
This article was written in collaboration with AlterNet and first appeared here.A man who died after being hogtied by police in South Haven, Mississippi, earlier this year, was killed by "complications...
View ArticleThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
A Border Patrol agent gets caught with a trunk-load of cocaine, a California narc was working for the other side, a whole bunch of jail and prison guards go bad, and more. Let's get to it:[image:1...
View ArticleFive More Useless Drug War Deaths Last Month
At least five people died at the hands of law enforcement officers attempting to enforce the drug laws between October 30 and the end of November, bringing the Drug War Chronicle's drug war death toll...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Canada Still Legalizing Weed, GAO Rakes Drug Czar Over Drug War...
Canada reiterates its intent to legalize pot, there's strong support for expanding medical marijuana in Georgia, the GAO reports that federal drug policy goals are not being met, and more.[image:1...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Naloxone News in NC & NYC, DC Pot Social Club Fight, CO Pot...
Legal weed is drawing tourists to Colorado, DC activists fight for pot clubs, a federal appeals court rules that all students at a technical college can be subjected to drug testing, there's naloxone...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter Makes A Powerful Connection With Racist Drug War [FEATURE]
This article was published in collaboration with AlterNet and first appeared here.The Black Lives Matter movement sprung out of the unjust killings of young black men (Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner,...
View ArticleThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
A sticky-fingered Ohio cop heads for prison, so does a gun-smuggling Miami cop, an Indiana cop gets busted peddling dope, and more.[image:1 align:left]In Anderson, Indiana, an Anderson police officer...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Domestic Drug Policy Stories of 2015 [FEATURE]
As the year winds down, we look back on the big stories in drug policy, from marijuana reform to climbing fatal overdose levels to sentencing reforms and beyond.[image:1 align:right caption:true]The...
View ArticleThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
This week, we've got a Tennessee twofer and Pennsylvania cop with a bad, bad pill habit. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:right]In Tazewell, Tennessee, a former Claiborne County sheriff's narcotics...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Houston Decriminalizes, Detroit Tightens Snitch Procedures,...
America's fourth largest city decriminalizes on Friday, Detroit tightens up on police use of paid snitches, a federal judge in Denver is hearing a pot banking case, and more.[image:1 align:left...
View ArticleThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
A trio of jail guards get in trouble, and a California sheriff's deputy gets popped with 247 pound of pot on a Pennsylvania highway. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:left]In Tuscaloosa, Alabama, a...
View ArticleThe Most Outrageous Drug War Deaths of 2015 [FEATURE]
An as yet unnamed man killed by police in Rawlins, Wyoming, on December 30, after they were called to a convenience store about a person believed to be selling drugs in the parking lot, and Burlington,...
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