Chronicle AM: MO MMJ Inits Hand in Beaucoup Signatures, OH Racial Profiling...
Two separate Missouri medical marijuana initiatives appear set to qualify for the November ballot, the Utah medical marijuana initiative is generating organized opposition -- including the DEA --...
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We have a pill-peddling former deputy, a Baton Rouge cop who made a joint mysteriously disappear, and more. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:right]In Bolivia, North Carolina, a former Brunswick County...
View ArticleIllinois Cop's Warning: If You Legalize Weed, We'll Have to Kill Our Drug Dogs
As the state legislature ponders a bill that could make Illinois the 10th state to legalize marijuana, law enforcement is getting nervous. Old anti-marijuana shibboleths have lost their potency, but...
View ArticleChronicle AM: NYC Marijuana Arrest Disparities Continue, Drug Protests Shake...
New York City has yet to escape from racially disproportionate marijuana arrests, the Mormon Church picks a fight with medical marijuana, nursing homes can't discriminate against people taking...
View ArticleFour White Louisiana Narcs Choked This Young Black Man to Death in a...
New Orleans resident Keeven Robinson, 22, died after being arrested by Jefferson Parish narcotics officers last week. Police originally tried to blame his death on asthma, but now the Jefferson Parish...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Manhattan DA to Quit Trying Small Pot Cases, Keeven Robinson...
Marijuana policy continues to roil New York, a US territory is on the verge of legalizing it, marchers protesting the killing of Keeven Robinson by Louisiana narcs demand justice, and more.[image:1...
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A Border Patrol agent goes to prison for helping pot smugglers, an NYPD cop gets nailed for agreeing to transport drugs for cash, a Florida crime scene tech gets busted stealing drugs from dead people,...
View ArticleFour Ways Fentanyl Could Radically Disrupt the Global Drug Trade
The synthetic opioid fentanyl isn't just killing American drug users by the thousands; its emergence also signals a shift in the decades-old contours of the global drug trade, with ramifications not...
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Whoa! It's prison and jail guards gone wild, plus some New York state cops get themselves in trouble. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:left]In Wewahitchka, Florida, a state prison guard was arrested last...
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One of the biggest police corruption cases in recent history ends with the head of the Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force headed for prison, deputies get in trouble for drugs in the jails, an Atlanta cop...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Acting DEA Chief Stepping Down, NYC to Change Marijuana Arrest...
A second acting DEA administrator is set to resign, New York City Mayor de Blasio has a plan to reduce Big Apple marijuana arrests, the Canadian legalization bill heads for the goal line, and...
View ArticleIn Drug Case, Supreme Court Holds That Unauthorized Rental Car Drivers Have...
Criminal Court & Legal Affair Investigative Journalist Clarence Walker can be reached at newswriter74@yahoo.com.The US Supreme Court recently annulled a major search and seizure case around a...
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It's a special Northeast edition of corrupt cops this week, with bad apples being harvested from the Big Apple, Albany, and upstate, as well as New Jersey and Connecticut. Let's get to it:[image:1...
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A Paterson, New Jersey, cop gets ready to pay for going buck wild, a New Mexico state trooper uses stolen drugs to woo women (and girls), a Florida deputy gets nailed for falsely busting people for...
View ArticleMexico's President-Elect Looks for Ways to End the Drug Wars [FEATURE]
Last Sunday, leftist politician Andres Manuel López Obrador -- often referred to with the acronymic AMLO -- won the Mexican presidency in a landslide. When he takes office in December, with his party...
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A Tennessee sheriff's head narc is under investigation for stealing stuff at a drug bust, cops in Georgia and Vermont go to prison for stealing from the evidence locker, and more. Let's get to...
View ArticleBulldozed to Death for Growing Ten Marijuana Plants
Getting caught growing a few pot plants in Pennsylvania could lead to a criminal charge and a likely sentence of probation, but for a Lehigh Valley man, it was a death sentence. This past Monday,...
View ArticleChronicle AM: NJ AG Suspends Pot Prosecutions, Denver Magic Mushroom Init...
In a surprise move, New Jersey's attorney general suspends pot prosecutions, an Oklahoma marijuana trade group releases proposed draft medical marijuana regulations, a Denver initiative to...
View ArticleThere’s a Surprising Obstacle to Ending Marijuana Prohibition in New Jersey
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) campaigned on, among other things, a promise to legalize marijuana in his first 100 days in office. That didn't happen. It may not happen at all this year, and state...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Sessions Concedes State Can Make Own Pot Laws, Mexico Opium,...
The US attorney general admits states can make their own pot laws, a new report finds racial disparities in marijuana enforcement in the New York suburbs, a Mexican governor calls for legal opium...
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