This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
C'mon cops--how many times do we have to tell you? Don't rip off the department evidence room, don't peddle cocaine, don't smuggle drugs to prisoners, and especially, don't blow up your meth lab in the...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Seattle Shrinks Pot Buffer Zones, 2nd Chance Reauthorization...
Seattle moves to ease zoning restrictions on pot businesses, Ohio GOP lawmakers form medical marijuana task force, Mexico creates marijuana debate website, and more. [image:1 align:left...
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A Minnesota deputy steals dope and Christmas toys, an Indiana deputy coroner peddles pills, and a Texas narcotics officer gets nailed trying to rip off drug cartels. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:left...
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[image:1 align:right]It's pretty quiet on the corrupt cops front this week. Maybe that's a good thing.In Boston, a former Boston police detective was sentenced last Friday to a year's probation and a...
View ArticleChronicle AM: RI Legalization Bills, More Philly Dope Cases Thrown Out,...
New England is turning into a real marijuana legalization hotspot as Rhode Island is set to become the latest state in the region to try to free the weed, the South Dakota legislature will take up...
View ArticleChronicle AM: WVA Welfare Drug Test Bill Advances, ME Voters Want Drug...
Medical marijuana bills get filed not only in Iowa, but also Australia and Greece, a new poll shows enlightened drug policy attitudes among Maine voters, Republican US senators hold competing events...
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It's jail and prison guards gone wild this week! Most did their misdeeds for profit, but at least one did hers for love. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:left]In New York City, a Rikers Island jail guard...
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A massive bust of corrupt prison guards in Georgia, drug prosecutions halted over sleazy police tactics in Waco, a San Antonio cop gets his hand slapped for stealing from citizens, and more. Let's get...
View ArticleChronicle AM: WA Drug Task to Disband, Cites Legal Pot; Harm Reduction Bills...
Even South Carolinians want drug policy reform, a Washington state drug task force calls it quits after pot legalization, harm reduction measures advance in Florida and New Mexico, and more.[image:1...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Supreme Court Takes Up CO Pot Legalization Case, DEA Can't Keep...
The Supreme Court will decide if the case against Colorado can go forward, Ohio pot legalizers call it quits for now, Detroit dispensaries are facing a crackdown, a New Jersey bill would criminalize...
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Sleazoid LAPD cops get nailed on sex charges, an Ohio drug task force officer gets nailed and hangs himself, a Kentucky special deputy gets charged (again) in a drug trafficking scheme, and more. Let's...
View ArticleChronicle AM: "Baby Bou Bou" Wins $3.6 Million Settlement, Pill Testing...
Justice at last for Baby Bou Bou, Minneapolis decriminalizes, Ohio lawmakers resort to more drug war, Iran executes all the males in a village for drugs, Australian harm reductionists pledge to open a...
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A pair of Louisiana deputies on a DEA task force are accused of moonlighting as drug dealers, a sticky-fingered Miami narc goes down, and more. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:right]In Amite City,...
View ArticleJanuary Drug War Deaths: Two in Night-Time Raids, One Unarmed and Fleeing...
At least three people were killed by American police enforcing the war on drugs last month, including one young man who died in a late-night drug raid that netted a little more than a quarter pound of...
View ArticleFebruary's Drug War Deaths
The war on drugs continues to exact a lethal toll, with drug law enforcement-related deaths occurring at a pace of just under one a week so far this year. There were three in January, and four more...
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Sticky-fingered cops keep getting themselves in trouble, and more. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:right]In Miami, a Miami-Dade narcotics bureau detective was arrested last Friday for pocketing some of...
View ArticleWill UNGASS 2016 Be the Beginning of the End for the War on Drugs?
This article is by Ann Fordham and Martin Jelsma, and is republished from read more
View ArticleMedical Marijuana Update
Michigan dispensaries get raided, a CBD cannabis oil bill comes back to life in Georgia, a CBD cannabis oil bill dies in Utah, Pennsylvania is just a couple of votes away from medical marijuana, and...
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Another DEA scandal is brewing in the Big Easy, more jail guards gone wild, another cop with a pill problem, and more. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:left]In New Orleans, a "golden boy" DEA agent is at...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Canada Wakes Up the CND, Tampa Pot Decrim, CA Legalization Init...
California's leading legalization initiative is one-quarter of the way home, Tampa is the latest Florida locality to decriminalize pot possession, the Canadians wake up the Commission on Narcotic Drugs...
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