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Latest News: December 2009
- Whites
Smoke Pot, But Blacks Are Arrested; from New York Times (NY),
12/23/09
- The
Raw (And Ugly) Truth About The War On Drugs; from Farm Wars
(US), 12/23/09
- Plea
Bargains Get Renewed Scrutiny; from Wall Street Journal (US),
12/19/09
- Justices Revisit Rule Requiring Lab Testimony; from
New York Times (NY), 12/23/09
- Marijuana -- Reefer Madness or Cure-all? from Farm
Wars (US), 12/20/09
- CDC: Two-Thirds Of Cocaine Seized On US Borders Cut
With Dangerous Cancer Drug; from Raw Story (US), 12/20/09
- OpEd:
An Equality Conundrum Remains; from Times-Union (NY), 12/17/09
- The
Year on Drugs 2009: International Drug Policy Developments; from
Drug War Chronicle (US), 12/18/09
- Hired By US Customs, But Working For The Cartels;
from New York Times (NY), 12/18/09
- US Drug War Crackdown Misses The Money; from MSNBC
(US), 12/17/09
- One War Obama May Curtail; from Antiwar.com (US),
12/15/09
- Column: U.S. May Take New Look At `War On Drugs';
from Miami Herald (FL), 12/14/09
- Former
Police Chief Norm Stamper: 'Let's Not Stop at Marijuana Legalization;
from AlterNet (US), 12/14/09
- CA: Huge Signature Gathering Success Sends Pot Legalization
to Ballot; from AlterNet (US), 12/14/09
- Medical
Marijuana Apartheid: Different Rules Apply for Rich and Poor
Pot Smokers; from AlterNet (US), 12/13/09
- Prisoner At Center Of 'KopBusters' Campaign May Soon
Be Freed; from Raw Story (US), 12/12/09
- Infiltrated:
Drug Cartels' Sway On U.S. Politics Rises, Expert Says; from
El Paso Times (TX), 12/12/09
- Kid
Cannabis: How A Chubby Pizza-Delivery Boy From Idaho Became A
Drug Kingpin; from Rolling Stone (US), 10/6/09
- New
Drug Conviction Reversed, And US Ruling Is Criticized; from Boston
Globe (MA), 12/9/09
- OpEd:
Enduring Legacy Of Prohibition; from Summit Daily News (CO),
12/7/09
- The
Scandal Of Nuttgate; from Student Direct: Mancunion (UK Edu),
11/30/09
- The
Secret To Legal Marijuana? Women; from AlterNet (US), 12/5/09
- Top
10 Drug War Stories Of The Year; from AlterNet (US), 12/4/09
- Obama
"Ecstasy" Pills Contain Zero Ecstasy; from The Stranger
(WA), 12/4/09
- Bernie
Ellis's Seven-Year Nightmare With The Law Is Over; from Nashville
Scene (TN), 12/3/09
- One
Man's Crusade For Legal Relief; from Roanoke Times (VA), 11/29/09
- Column:
The Art And Science Of Evidence About Drugs; from The Guardian
(UK), 12/1/09
Latest News: November 2009
- The
Feds Are Addicted to Pot -- Even If You Aren't; from AlterNet
(US), 11/30/09
- The
Numbers Don't Add Up in Mexico's Drug War; from NarcoNews
(America), 11/29/09
- Column:
The Law Professor And The Pardon Power; from San Francisco
Chronicle (CA), 11/24/09
- The
Salvia Ban Wagon; from Reason Magazine (US), Dec 2009
- L.A.'S
Medical-Weed Wars; from LA Weekly (CA), 11/26/09
- International Legal Precedent: No Private Prisons
In Israel; from Haaretz (Israel), 11/23/09
- Marijuana
Is Basically Harmless: The Monumentally Stupid Drug War Is Not;
from AlterNet (US), 11/23/09
- Right
and Left Join Forces on Criminal Justice; from New York Times
(NY), 11/23/09
- The
Fall of Mexico; from The Atlantic (US), Dec 2009
- Table
in the Clearing; from Truthout (US), 11/22/09
- The
Needle Nexus; from New York Times Magazine (NY), 11/22/09
- Column:
Do Justice Like Texas. Really; from Sun-Sentinel (FL), 11/21/09
- Addicted
To Failure: Legalize Hard Drugs; from This Magazine (Canada),
Nov 2009
- Fired
Up in Albuquerque -- The 2009 International Drug Policy Reform
Conference; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 11/20/09
- California's
Medical Marijuana Law -- Just a Smokescreen? from TruthOut
(US), 11/18/09
- Mexico's
Juarez On Path To Anarchy; from BBC News (UK), 11/17/09
- Mexico
Under Siege: Marching The Police Off To Jail; from Los Angeles
Times (CA), 11/17/09
- The
State of Play -- Federal Drug Reform Legislation in the Congress;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 11/13/09
- Society
in Jail (Or How I Came to Love The Warrant); from Ludwig von
Mises Institute (US), 4/10/09
- Businessman
Looks For Needle-Exchange Program Sponsor; from Lancaster
New Era (PA), 11/13/09
- Ease State Budget Woes By Closing More Prisons; from
Newsday (NY), 11/12/09
- U.S. Commission To Assess Mandatory Sentences; from
Wall Street Journal (US), 11/12/09
- Accept
The Facts -- And End This Futile 'War On Drugs'; from Independent
(UK), 11/11/09
- Feds
Rumored Close To Indicting America's Sheriff [Arpaio]; from Examiner.com
(WA), 11/10/09
- Mistrust Linked To Racial Disparities In Justice System;
from Tri-State Defender (TN), 11/6/09
- Drug
Legalization: Senator Pushes Amendment to Censor Any Talk of
That; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 11/6/09
- Speaker
Calls For End To Country's Drug War At CCSU; from New Britain
Herald (CT), 10/20/09
- Can
Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed? from New York Review Of
Books (NY), Nov 2009
- Backing
For Drug Expert's Revolt; from Western Mail (UK), 11/3/09
- On
The Quiet, The US Is Legalising Marijuana; from Sunday Times
(UK), 11/1/09
- Court
Slams LAPD For Illegally Seizing Medical Marijuana Profits; from
Orange County Weekly (CA), 10/20/09
Latest News: October 2009
- Pot
Is More Mainstream Than Ever, So Why Is Legalization Still Taboo?
from AlterNet (US), 10/29/09
- Case
Spurs Pharmacies' Fears Of Lawsuits Over Drug Abuse; from Wall
Street Journal (US), 10/28/09
- Arizona
May Put State Prisons, Death Row in Private Hands; from New
York Times (NY), 10/23/09
- OpEd:
If It's On The Shelves, It's Off The Streets; from Washington
Post (DC), 10/25/09
- Column:
Legal Pot Has Surprising Allies; from Spokesman-Review (WA),
10/22/09
- UK:
Study Touts Treating Heroin Addicts With Heroin; from CNN.com
(US), 10/20/09
- We're
All Felons, Now; from Reason Magazine (US), 10/19/09
- OpEd:
Crime Down, Prison Boom Looms; from Toronto Star (CN ON),
10/17/09
- The
Pro-Drug Czar; from Newsweek (US), 10/15/09
- Feds To Issue New Medical Marijuana Policy; from Associated
Press (US), 10/19/09
- Pardoned
By Bush, Iowan Returns To Freedom; from Des Moines Register
(IA), 10/18/09
- The California Fix: Cuts Dim Inmates' Hope For New
Lives; from Los Angeles Times (CA), 10/17/09
- Welcome
to Potopia: How Oakland Is Leading Marijuana Legalization; from
Newsweek (US), 10/15/09
- Justices Weigh Rules On Recovering Seized Assets;
from Wall Street Journal (US), 10/14/09
- OpEd: Drugs, Morality, & Epic Finger-Wagging;
from The Peak (Edu CN BC), 10/13/09
- Farmers Arrested Planting Hemp On DEA Headquarters
Lawn; from Huffington Post (US), 10/13/09
- Behind
Montana Jail Fiasco: How Private Prison Developers Prey On Desperate
Towns; from Talking Points Memo
(US), 10/12/09
- American
Police Force Pulls Out Of Hardin Jail Project; from The Missoulian (MT), 10/10/09
- Investigative
Research re American Private Police Force Organization (APF); from Prison Legal News (US), 10/1/09
- Hardin
Jail Signs Contract With Private Security Force To House Prisoners,
Homeless, Unwanted Pets; from The
Missoulian (MT), 9/10/09
- Opinion:
Sending Children To Prison For Life; from Los Angeles Times
(CA), 10/7/09
- Marijuana Licensing Fails to Chase the Shadows; from
New York Times (NY), 10/10/09
- New York's Rockefeller Drug Law Reforms Now in Effect;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 10/9/09
- Activists
Hope To Get Pot Legalized In 2010; from Orange County Register
(CA), 10/9/0/
- Homegrown Pot Threatens Mexican Cartels; from CBS
News (US), 10/7/09
- Vaccines
To Combat Drug Addiction Showing Promise; from Los Angeles
Times (CA), 10/6/09
- Drug
Court Program Needs Serious Reforms, Defense Attorneys Say; from
Drug War Chronicle (US), 10/2/09
- Stiletto
Stoners; from Marie Claire (US), 10/1/09
- OpEd: Get Serious About Decriminalizing Drugs; Others
Are; from San Jose Mercury News (CA), 10/1/09
- Alternatives
To Drug War Championed At Conference; from San Diego Union
Tribune (CA), 9/28/09
Latest News: September 2009
- Our Top 10 Drug Policy Goals; from Daily Pilot
(CA), 9/26/09
- [Video] DoJ Official Blows Cover Off PATRIOT Act;
from Huffington Post (US), 9/24/09
- [Video]
When Cops Play Doctor; from Reason.TV (US), Sep 2009
- How
Pot Became Legal; from Fortune Magazine (US), Sep 2009
- Is
War On Drugs Worth It? Maybe Not, New FBI Data Suggest; from
Christian Science Monitor (US), 9/15/09
- The Case For Legalising All Drugs Is Unanswerable;
from Observer (UK), 9/13/09
- Militarizing Latin America, By Noam Chomsky; from
In These Times (US), 9/9/09
- Will Foster Back in Prison in Oklahoma, Supporters
Mount Campaign to Free Him; from Drug War Chronicle (US),
9/11/09
- Better World: Legalise Drugs; from New Scientist
(UK), 9/10/09
- Drug
Control Becomes Speech Control; from Reason Magazine (US),
9/9/09
- Ex-Judges
Indicted In Kids-For-Cash Prison Scheme; from MSNBC.com (US),
9/10/09
- Column:
America's Longest War; from Bugle-Observer (CN NK), 9/8/09
- Opinion:
The Recession Behind Bars; from New York Times (NY), 9/5/09
- Is
America Ready To Admit Defeat In Its 40-Year War On Drugs? from
The Guardian (UK), 9/6/09
- OpEd:
The War On Drugs Has Failed. Now We Need A More Humane Strategy;
from The Observer (UK), 9/6/09
- Mexico
Misses the Point; from Scoop44.com (US), 9/5/09
- Mexico
Under Siege: Gunmen Kill 18 at a Rehab Clinic; from Los Angeles
Times (CA), 9/4/09
- U.N.
Sees Afghan Drug Cartels Emerging; from New York Times (NY),
9/2/09
- Sgt.
Northcutt's Post-Iraq Nightmare: Getting Arrested for Growing
Pot; from AlterNet (US), 9/1/09
- A
Radical Solution to End the Drug War: Legalize Everything; from
Esquire.com (US), 9/1/09
- Tainted
Cocaine Kills 3, Sickens Dozens; from Washington Post (DC),
8/31/09
Latest News: August 2009
- The
New High Life; from Los Angeles Times (CA), 8/30/09
- Mexico
and Argentina Enact Drug Decriminalization, US Drug Policy Increasingly
Out of Step; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 8/28/09
- Fixing California's Prisons? from Truthout (US),
8/25/09
- Drug
War: The Bushie Obama Can't Fire; from The Daily Beast (US),
8/25/09
- Mexican
Drug Cartels Now Recruiting Hit Men From U.S. Military; from
Examiner.com (US), 8/20/09
- Mexico
Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession; from Associated
Press (US), 8/20/09
- Cocaine
on Money: Drug Found on 90% of U.S. Bills; from National Geographic
(US), 8/16/09
- Column:
Priority Test: Health Care or Prisons? from New York Times
(NY), 8/19/09
- Essay:
The Drug Laws Don't Work; from The Philosophers' Magazine
(UK), 7/20/09
- Mints
Believed To Be Crack Land Man In Jail; from WFTV News (FL),
8/17/09
- California Might Act To Jail More Drug Offenders;
from Los Angeles Times (CA), 8/18/09
- Bolivia
Plants Coca, And Cocaine Follows; from Wall Street Journal
(US), 8/18/09
- OpEd:
It's Time to Legalize Drugs; from Washington Post (DC), 8/17/09
- Column:
Prison Spending Hits A Brick Wall; from Denver Post (CO),
8/16/09
- Burning
Questions for the Authors of 'Marijuana Is Safer'; from AlterNet
(US), 8/15/09
- Commentary:
War On Drugs Is Over. What's Next? from CNN (US), 8/13/09
- US
Targets 50 Taliban-Linked Drug Traffickers to Capture or Kill;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 8/13/09
- Rethinking US Penal Policy; from Truthout (US),
8/13/09
- Charles Bowden on Mexico's Dirty War Against Drugs;
from Democracy Now! (US), 8/11/09
- The
War On Drugs Needs A Timeout; from Christian Science Monitor
(US), 8/11/09
- The
Epidemic Of Pot Arrests In New York City; from AlterNet (US),
8/10/09
- The
Five Stages of Grief over Obama's Drug Policies; from Huffington
Post (US), 8/8/09
- OpEd:
Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor? from New York Times (NY), 8/9/09
- Busts
Of Corrupt US Border Police Rise; from AZCentral (AZ), 8/9/09
- Opium
Addiction Ravages Afghan Families; from MSNBC (US), 8/9/09
- The
Last Drug Czar; from American Prospect (US), Jul/Aug 2009
- Latin
America's Legalization Push; from American Prospect (US),
Jul/Aug 2009
- Marijuana
Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People To Drink? from AlterNet
(US), 8/6/09
- A
U.S. War with Mexican Consequences; from Cato Unbound (US),
8/5/09
- NBC,
CBS, ABC, & FOX Happy To Profit From Marijuana, As Long As
Nobody Talks About Legalizing It; from AlterNet (US), 8/4/09
- Ruling Blasts California Prisons; from Spokesman
Review (WA), 8/5/09
- Device
Offers A Roadside Dope Test; from MIT Technology Review (MA),
8/4/09
- Editorial:
Tough On Corrections; from Los Angeles Times (CA), 8/3/09
- Congress
May Ease Law on College Aid for Drug Offenders; from McClatchy
Newspapers (US), 8/3/09
- Column:
Why It's Time To End The War On Drugs; from Financial Times
Weekend Magazine (UK), 8/1/09
- Opinion:
The Bloody Results Of Drug Prohibition; from Baltimore Sun
(MD), 7/29/09
Latest News: July 2009
- California's
Prop. 36 Drug Treatment Cut 83 Percent; from Oakland Tribune
(CA), 7/30/09
- New Strategy Urged In Mexico; from Washington Post
(DC), 7/28/09
- Winds of Change Are Blowing in Washington: Drug Reforms
Finally Move in Congress; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 7/24/09
- New
Rule: Not Everything in America Has to Make a Profit; from HBO's
Real Time with Bill Maher (US), 7/23/09
- The
Drug Czar's High Math; from Reason Magazine (US), Aug/Sep
09
- Number
of Life Terms Hits Record; from New York Times (NY), 7/23/09
- Critics
Try To Soften Souder Law; from Journal Gazette (IN), 7/22/09
- Oakland
Voters Approve A Tax On Medical Marijuana; from Los Angeles
Times (CA), 7/22/09
- Is Marijuana the Answer to California's Budget Woes?
from Time Magazine (US), 7/22/09
- US Debating Payoffs To Afghan Poppy Growers; from
Associated Press (US), 7/21/09
- Walter
Cronkite on the Drug War; from Drug War Chronicle Blog (US),
7/18/09
- Doing
Borrowed Time: The High Cost Of Back-Door Prison Finance; from
Justice Strategies (NY), 1/1/07
- Meet
Congress' New Teeny Tiny Anti-Marijuana Caucus; from NORML
Blog (US), 7/19/09
- Why
We Say Yes To Drugs; from Salon.com (US) 7/20/09
- Walter Cronkite Knew a Failed War When He Saw One:
Vietnam and the War on Drugs; from AlterNet (US), 7/18/09
- An
Open Letter To Congress: Come To Your Senses And End This Insane
Drug War; The Telegraph (NH), 7/19/09
- Lab Analyst Decision Complicates Prosecutions; from
Washington Post (DC), 7/15/09
- America's
Jail Crisis; from Forbes Magazine (US), 7/13/09
- Editorial:
Prescription For Abuse; from Sarasota Herald-Tribune (FL),
7/12/09
- Just
Say Now; from Willamette Week (OR), 7/9/09
- Pain Clinics Test Patients for Marijuana Use; from
NORML Blog (US) , 7/7/09
- How The Dare Generation Got High; from AlterNet
(US), 7/6/09
- Structuring
Sentences; from Washington Post (DC), 7/6/09
- Latin America's Legalization Push; from American
Prospect (US), 7/6/09
- The Patriot's Guide To Legalization; from Mother
Jones (US), 7/1/09
- Police Crackdowns May Encourage Drug Use; from New
Scientist (US), 7/3/09
- Progressives Push Against Drug War: Will Dems Listen?
from Huffington Post (US), 7/2/09
- This Is Your War On Drugs; from Mother Jones (US),
7/1/09
- Column:
Drug Control Begets Gun Control; from Reason Magazine (US),
7/1/09
- Column: Reality Bites In Drug Debate; from Canberra
Times (AUS), 6/30/09
Latest News: June 2009
- US Announces Shift In Afghanistan Drug Policy; from
Huffington Post (US), 6/28/09
- Coalition
Pushes For Alternatives To More Prisons; from Bradenton Herald
(FL), 6/24/09
- American
Nightmare -- Will Foster and Justice, Oklahoma Style; from Drug
War Chronicle (US), 6/26/09
- Ending the Death Penalty for Drug Offenses -- Now
Is the Time, Say Human Rights, Harm Reduction Groups; from Drug
War Chronicle (US), 6/26/09
- Our
Real Prison Problem: Why Are We So Worried About Gitmo? from
Newsweek (US), 6/15/09
- UN World Drug Report Preface Majors On Legalisation;
from Transform Drug Policy Foundation (UK), 6/24/09
- UN
Backs Drug Decriminalization In World Drug Report; from Huffington
Post (US), 6/24/09
- Top
Court Rules Drug Strip Search Of Teen Was Illegal; from Associated
Press (US), 6/25/09
- The
War Against the 'War on Drugs'; from The Nation (US), July
2009
- Mexico Moves Quietly To Decriminalize Minor Drug Use;
from Los Angeles Times (US), 6/21/09
- OpEd:
Nation Must Recast The War On Drugs; from Times Union (NY),
6/20/09
- Wounds
of War: Drug Problems Among Iraq, Afghan Vets Could Dwarf Vietnam;
from Join Together (US), 6/15/09
- The
Marijuana Question; from Boston Phoenix (MA), 6/16/09
- Momentum
Builds For Broad Debate On Legalizing Marijuana; from Associated
Press (US), 6/16/09
- 25
Years in Prison for Pot? Drug Warrior Congressman's Idea Is Way
Obsolete; from AlterNet (US), 6/15/09
- Column:
Drugs Won The War On Drugs: It's Time To Try Something New; from
New York Times (NY), 6/15/09
- California
Inmate Plan Draws Ire; from Wall Street Journal (US), 6/13/09
- No
One Deserves To Die By Overdose; from AlterNet (US), 6/12/09
- Debate:
Ethan Nadlemann, Director of Drug Policy Alliance and William
Bennett, Drug Czar Under Pres. H.W. Bush; from CNN (US), 6/12/09
- Why
We Must Reform Our Criminal Justice System; from Huffington
Post (US), 6/11/09
- 366-Day
Sentence For Pot Dispensary Owner Charles Lynch; from San
Francisco Chronicle (CA), 6/12/09
- Marc
Emery: Why I Will Plead Guilty In A US Court To Distributing
Marijuana; from Georgia Straight (CN BC), 6/11/09
- Senate
Passes Bill to Let FDA Regulate Tobacco; from Washington Post
(DC), 6/12/09
- Supreme Court Won't Hear Case Of Naples Doctor Convicted
Of Illegally Prescribing Pain Killers; from Naples Daily News
(FL), 6/9/09
- How
a Former Prisoner Took On and Took Down Corrections Corporation
of America's General Counsel (and Cheney Pal); from CounterPunch
(US), 6/8/09
- OpEd:
Lawyers, Guns And Money: Three Reasons To End The Drug War; from
Los Angeles Times (CA), 6/7/09
- Michigan Shuts 8 Prisons To Save $120M; from CNNMoney.com,
6/5/09
- Marc
Emery Will Serve Time On Pot Charge; from The Province (CN
BC), 6/5/09
- Canada: Mandatory Jail For Drug Crimes Nears Passage;
from Edmonton Journal (CN AB), 6/4/09
- Why
Do We Tolerate a Massive Prison System That Produces 70% Recidivism
Rates? from UC Berkeley News (CA), 6/3/09
- Why
Parole Does Not Work In California; from UC Berkeley News
(CA), 5/6/09
- Redeem The Prison Generation; from Christian Science
Monitor (US), 6/3/09
- Man
Serving Three Life Terms for Drug Deal Pins Hopes on Clemency
from Obama; from Fox News (US), 6/2/09
- Will
Obama End "War on Drugs"? from Consortium News (US),
5/31/09
- Don't
Blame Pot -- There's No Such Thing as a "Gateway Drug";
from AlterNet (US), 5/29/09
Latest News: May 2009
- Marijuana And Cocaine Should Be Legalised, Says Latin
American Drugs Commission; from The Guardian (UK), 5/28/09
- The
Border Violence Myth; from The Nation (US), 5/27/09
- Tim
Cole Act, Raising Compensation For Wrongful Convictions, Is Signed
Into Law; from Star-Telegram (TX), 5/27/09
- CA:
Governor's Budget Ends Incarceration for Nonviolent Drug Offenses,
Focuses on Greater Public Safety Priorities; from Drug Policy
Alliance (US), 5/14/09
- U.S.
Drug Habit Keeps Mexican War Boiling; from MSNBC (US), 5/26/09
- Under
The Radar: US Democrats Overseas Pass Marijuana Resolution; from
Raw Story (US), 5/26/09
- Allegations
of Impropriety Surround Parole Commission; from Washington
Post (DC), 5/26/09
- Bondsmen
Upset By Policies That Free More People; from Associated Press
(US), 5/25/09
- Netherlands To Close Prisons For Lack Of Criminals;
from NRC Handelsblad (NL), 5/25/09
- Suspects
in Terror Bombing Plot: Drug Arrests and Prison Conversions;
from New York Times (NY), 5/22/09
- New
Drug Czar Ready To Corral Forces; from USA Today (US), 5/21/09
- Supreme
Court Upholds California Medical Pot Law; from Los Angeles
Times (CA), 5/19/09
- U.S.
Military: Heavily Armed And Medicated; from MSNBC.com (US),
5/19/09
- Legalization? Now For The Hard Question; from New
York Times (NY), 5/17/09
- Ending
The War On Drugs: The Moment Is Now; from Huffington Post
(US), 5/15/09
- Free Speech: ACLU Backs Pain Activist's Effort to
Quash Subpoena Issued in Kansas Case; from Drug War Chronicle
(US), 5/15/09
- Q&A
With the New Drug Czar; from Wall Street Journal (US), 5/14/09
- White House Czar Calls for End to 'War on Drugs';
from Wall Street Journal (US), 5/14/09
- "The
War On Drugs" -- More Than Just A Metaphor; from Jack-Booted
Liberal (US), 5/13/09
- On
Sen. Webb's Bill Studying Criminal Justice Reform; from Talk
Left (US), 4/30/09
- Obama Disappoints Needle-Exchange Advocates; from
San Francisco Chronicle (CA), 5/11/09
- Is
the U.S. Finally Going to Get Pragmatic About Drug Policy? from
Dissident Voice (US), 5/9/09
- War
on Drugs = War On Us All; from Open Salon (US), 5/9/09
- A
Marijuana Tax As The Next New Revenue Stream? from Christian
Science Monitor (US), 5/8/09
- Open
Letter to the New "Drug Czar" from Another Top Cop:
End the Drug War; from Huffington Post (US), 5/8/09
- Mexico
Decriminalization Bill Passes -- One Step Forward, Two Steps
Back? from Drug War Chronicle (US), 5/8/09
- Murder
Charges for Man Who Defended His Home; from Total Criminal
Defense (US), May 2009
- Mexico:
"They Kill Our Trees So We'll Grow Their Drugs." from
Truthout (US), 5/5/09
- Drugs,
Elephants And American Prisons; from Reuters Blogs (US),
4/30/09
- Big
Hearing at the Tenth Circuit Today on Painkiller Issue; from
The Agitator (US), 5/6/09
- Governor
Schwarzenegger Says He's Open To Debate On Legal Pot; from San
Francisco Chronicle (CA), 5/6/09
- "Tools
For Ending The Drug War" Conference; from New Haven Independent
(CT), 5/4/09
- 9th Circuit Upholds 10-Year Mandatory Minimum for
Prop 215 Defendant Bryan Epis; from CA NORML (CA), 5/3/09
- Column:
More Than A Silly Strip Search; from San Francisco Chronicle
(CA), 5/2/09
- Marijuana
At The Tipping Point; from AlterNet (US), 5/1/09
Latest News: Posted April 2009
- Should We Blame Bad Apples Or
A Bad Culture For Federal Prosecutors Gone Wild? from Sentencing Law and Policy Blog of Doug Berman,
4/8/09
- The
Fall of the Presidential Pardon; from
Truthout (US), 4/2/09
- Youth
and the Myth of Post-Racial Society Under Barack Obama; from
Truthout (US), 4/27/09
- Column:
A Sensible Halfway Stop To Decriminalizing Drugs? from Washington
Post (DC), 4/26/09
- Drugs:
To Legalize or Not; from Wall Street Journal (US), 4/25/09
- American
Exception: Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations'; from New
York Times, 4/23/09
- Criminal
Justice Tour of Virginia Underscores Need for Reform; from Sen.
Jim Webb's Website (US), 4/23/09
- OpEd: Prohibition Spawns Drug Violence; from Creators
Syndicate (US), 4/24/09
- Pot Legalization Favored By Some To Stem Violence;
from The Hill (DC), 4/20/09
- Chronic
City: The Sad Case of Charlie Lynch; from San Francisco Weekly
(CA), 4/23/09
- Pot
vs. Booze: A Former Police Chief's Take; from Alternet
(US), 4/22/09
- Supreme
Court Cuts Back Officers' Searches Of Vehicles; from New York
Times (NY), 4/22/09
- US
Wants 5-Year Term For Medical Pot Seller; from San Francisco
Chronicle (CA), 4/21/09
- Portugal's
Experience Shows Drug Decriminalization Can Work; from Vancouver
Sun (BC CA), 4/18/09
- Wasted:
The American Prohibition On Thinking Smart In The Drug War; from
Foreign Policy (US), May 2009
- Is
It Possible The War On Pot Is On Its Last Legs? from AlterNet
(US Web), 4/20/09
- Obama's
Demented Drug Policy; from The Daily Beast (US), 4/16/09
- An
Interview With Jeffrey Miron On How To End Drug Violence; from
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC), 4/18/09
- Strip
Searches At School: Discipline Gone Too Far? from USA Today
(US), 4/16/09
- FBI
And States Vastly Expand DNA Databases; from New York Times
(NY), 4/19/09
- Medical
Marijuana Requests Climb Sky High; from MSNBC.com (US),
4/15/09
- A
Criminally Stupid War On Drugs In The US; from Financial Times
(UK), 4/13/09
- Mexican
Ambassador: US Should Take Marijuana Legalization Seriously;
from Raw Story (US), 4/12/09
- OpEd:
We Tried A War Like This Once Before; from Washington Post
(DC), 4/12/09
- Obama's Crossover Dribble On Marijuana Policy; from
CounterPunch (US), 4/10/09
- Column: You Can't Tell Us Drug Legalization Is Impossible;
from Ottawa Citizen (CN ON), 4/10/09
- Professor
Noam Chomsky On The Drug War; from Citizen Radio (US),
4/1/09
- Can
Senator Webb Lead America Out of the Drug War Quagmire? from
OpEd News (US), 4/10/09
- Justice
Department Unit Is Again the Focus of Scrutiny; from Wall
Street Journal (US), 4/9/09
- Obama:
(Reefer) Madness to Tackle Legalization? from Huffington Post
(US), 4/6/09
- Mexican
Drug Lord Officially Thanks American Lawmakers for Keeping Drugs
Illegal; from Huffington Post (US), 3/29/09
- States
Pull Back After Decades Of Get-Tough Laws; from Associated
Press (US), 4/4/09
- The
War On Drugs Is A War On You; from CounterCurrents.org,
4/3/09
- A
Nation Of Jailbirds; from The Economist (UK), 4/2/09
- Editorial:
Formula For Failure; from Herald-Tribune (FL), 4/2/09
- Column:
Maybe We Should Legalize Drugs; from Miami Herald (FL),
4/1/09
- Column:
Obama Gets Hazy On Reefer Economics; from Chicago Tribune
(IL), 4/1/09
- Kids
Do The Darndest Things: Joe Biden's Cocaine Dilemma; from AlterNet
(US Web), 3/31/09
Latest News: March 2009
- The Beginning of the End of the Rockefeller Drug Laws;
from Drop The Rock (NY), 3/30/09
- Jim
Webb's Courage v. The "Pragmatism" Excuse For Politicians;
from Salon.com (US), 3/28/09
- OpEd:
Zero-Tolerance Policies Wreak Havoc On Children's Education;
from Providence Journal (RI), 3/29/09
- The
American Gulag; from The Republic (CN BC), 3/26/09
- Sen.
Webb Takes On Next Challenge: Nation's Prison System; from Virginian-Pilot
(VA), 3/26/09
- Clinton
Says U.S. Feeds Mexico Drug Trade; from New York Times
(NY), 3/25/09
- A
Fresh Approach In American War On Drugs; from TheStar.com
(ON, CAN), 3/21/09
- Ending
Drug War Abuse; from Freedom's Phoenix (AZ), 3/22/09
- Anti-Drug
Effort at Border Is Readied; from Washington Post (DC),
3/22/09
- The
Shame Of The Prisons; from TIME Magazine (US), 1/18/71
- Medical
Marijuana: Attorney General Holder: No DEA Busts Unless You Violate
State Law; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 3/20/09
- Mexico's
Drug War Bloodbath: Guns from the U.S. Are Destabilizing the
Country; from AlterNet DrugReporter (US), 3/18/09
- The
Criminal Injustice System; from CounterPunch (US), 3/11/09
- Column:
The Drug War Body Count; from San Francisco Chronicle
(CA), 3/16/09
- The
Success Of Drug Decriminalization In Portugal; from Salon.com
(US), 3/14/09
- Why
We Can't Legalize Drugs; from Stanton Peele's Website
(US), 3/12/09
- Meeting in Vienna, UN Commission on Narcotics Drugs
Prepares to Head Further Down Same Prohibitionist Path, But Dissenting
Voices Grow Louder; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 3/13/09
- The
Making Of A Narco State; from Rolling Stone (US), Mar
2009
- Column:
We Can't Go On Prohibiting Drugs! from Independent (UK),
3/9/09
- How
Much Prison Time Is Enough? from Herald-Palladium (MI),
3/8/09
- Column:
How To Get Me To Shut Up About Drugs; from Ottawa Citizen
(CN ON), 3/6/09
- Researchers Call for Moratorium on Field Drug Test
Kit Testing; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 3/6/09
- No
Rockefeller Drug Law Reform In New York Would Be A Real Crime;
from The Post Standard (NY), 3/5/09
- Failed States and Failed Policies: How To Stop The
Drug Wars; from The Economist (UK), 3/5/09
- This
Revolting Trade In Human Lives Is An Incentive To Lock People
Up; from The Guardian (UK), 3/3/09
- Ending
The War On Drugs; from In These Times (US), 3/2/09
- Editorial:
The War On What? from Daily Sound (CA), 3/3/09
- In
The Heart Of A Drug War; from Ottawa Citizen (CN ON),
3/2/09
- Legislation to Overhaul Rockefeller Drug Laws Moves
Ahead Swiftly; from New York Times (NY), 3/1/09
- Police
Welcome New Dogs; from Yale Daily News (CT), 2/23/09
- Elderly
Offender Home Detention Pilot Program;
from US Bureau
of Prisons, 2/5/09 (pdf)
- News
Release: United States Sentencing Commission to Conduct Regional
Public Hearings on Federal Sentencing Policy; from USSC, 1/14/09
- Criminal Justice Recommendations For New Administration
And Congress; from The Criminal
Justice Transition Coalition, 11/6/08
Latest News: February 2009
- Justice
Department Will Stop Medical Marijuana Raids, Attorney General
Says; from Raw Story (US), 2/26/09
- U.S.
Is Arms Bazaar For Mexican Cartels; from New York Times
(NY), 2/26/09
- Business
Lobby: Don't Build Prisons, Release Inmates Instead; from Miami
Herald (FL), 2/19/09
- Taxing
Pot Could Become A Political Toking Point; from Los Angeles
Times (CA), 2/24/09
- Opposing
The Drug Laws They Enforce; from MSNBC (US), 2/23/09
- The
War On Drugs Is A Failure; from Wall Street Journal (US),
2/23/09
- Documents Reveal Details In Kathryn Johnston Slaying,
Cover-Up; from Atlanta Journal-Constitution (GA), 2/22/09
- Column:
Obama's Take On The Drug War; from Denver Post (CO), 2/22/09
- Pot
Shots: Obama's Mixed Messages on Marijuana; from CounterPunch
(US), 2/4/09
- INCB
Calls for More of the Same on Global Drug Policy -- Critics Call
for No More INCB; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 2/20/09
- Editorial: Violent Valentine's Days -- There And Here,
Then And Now; from Vancouver Sun (CN BC), 2/18/09
- Drug
Violence Spins Mexico Toward 'Civil War'; from CNN (US),
2/19/09
- Jailing
Kids for Cash; from TruthOut (US), 2/17/09
- The
Drug War Wall Begins to Fall; from Narco News Bulletin
(America), 2/11/09
- Golden Girls Behind Bars; from New America Media
(US), 2/9/09
- Marchers
Block Mexico-US Border; from BBC News (UK), 2/18/09
- Explosion Of Outrage Over Phelps And Marijuana Says
A Lot About America's Idiotic Drug Policies; from Seattle
Times (WA), 2/17/09
- Editorial: Reality Intrudes On The Drug War; from
Chicago Tribune (IL), 2/15/09
- Prisons
Director Demands Reforms; from Columbus Dispatch (OH),
2/13/09
- Eight Arrested In Michael Phelps Case; from WISTV
(SC), 2/9/09
- Judges
Tentatively Order Calif. Inmate Release; from Sacramento Bee
(CA),2/10/09
- Phelps Story Shows We Should Say No To Drug War; from
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO), 2/9/09
- A Silver Lining to the Economic Crisis: Less Money
for Prisons; from AlterNet (US), 1/22/09
- Bush
Holdovers At DEA Continue Pot Raids; from Washington Times
(DC), 2/5/09
- Michael
Phelps: Big Bong Theory; from Washington Post (DC), 2/3/09
- Drug
Dealers: Always on My Mind; from Newsweek (US), 1/31/09
- Judges
to Serve More Than Seven Years in Prison After Pleading Guilty
in Prison Kickbacks Probe; from Law.com (US), 1/28/09
- Incarceration Policy Strikes Out; from ABA Journal
(US), 2/2/09
- PBS
To Air Documentary: 'Tulia, Texas'; from Plainview Daily Herald
(TX), 2/2/09
- Column:
American Government Losing The 'War On Drugs'; from Daily
Reveille (LA Edu), 2/2/09
Latest News: January 2009
- Prisons
Under Pressure -- Corrections Budgets in the Age of Austerity;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 1/30/09
- Legal
System Struggles With How To React When Police Officers Lie;
from Wall Street Journal (US), 1/29/09
- Rockefeller
Drugs Laws: Ripe for Reform; from The Nation (US), 1/26/09
- Editorial:
Drugs Are Bad, But They're Good Enough; from Odessa American
(TX), 1/26/09
- American
Kidnapped, Business Torched -- DEA Blamed; from San Antonio
Express-News (TX), 1/25/09
- Column:
"Change" You Say? from Somerville News (MA),
1/21/09
- Update
on the Ryan Frederick Trial; from The Agitator (US), 1/22/09
- Mexican
Drug War Violence Is Going Off The Charts; from AlterNet
(US), 1/21/09
- Bongs
Away! from Reason Magazine (US), Feb 2009
- Bush
Commutes Ex-Border Agents' Sentences; from MSNBC(US),
1/19/09
- The
Plight Of The Innocent; from Helium.com (US), 1/19/09
- War
on Drugs: The Collateral Damage; from Culture 11 (US),
1/14/09
- Editorial:
The Fourth Amendment Diluted; from New York Times (NY),
1/16/09
- Column:
Why Legalizing Drugs Looks Like A Solution To Some In El Paso;
from Dallas Morning News (TX), 1/15/09
- Five
Key Areas For Reforming America's Idiotic War On Drugs; from
AlterNet (US), 1/12/09
- States Ponder Early Release For Some Prisoners; from
MSNBC (US), 1/10/09
- Column:
U.S.-Mexico Drug War: We're Clucking Like Chickens; from El
Paso Times (TX), 1/11/09
- Arsenic
Levels Too High in Kern Valley State Prison's Drinking Water;
from TruthOut (US), 12/29/09
- Mayor Vetoes Resolution Asking For Debate On Legalizing
Drugs; from El Paso Times (TX), 1/6/09
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- The Top 10 Drug
Policy Stories of 2008; from Drug War Chronicle (US),
1/3/09
- Sen.
Webb Sets His Sights On Prison Reform; from Washington Post
(DC), 12/29/08
- Voices
From Home; from Courier-Journal (KY), 12/29/08
- TV
Show Latest Offbeat Tactic For Sheriff Arpaio; from Arizona
Central (AZ), 12/25/08
- Locked
Up for Life: The Case of Clarence Aaron;
from Fox News (US), Dec 2008
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Latest News: December 2008
- Little
Blue Pills Among The Ways CIA Wins Friends In Afghanistan; from
Washington Post (DC), 12/26/08
- 101
and Losing Her Home; from Post-Standard (NY), 12/25/08
- OpEd:
Pardons Can Right System's Wrongs; from Mountain View Telegraph
(NM), 12/25/08
- Ohio
Bill Seeks To Ease Prison Crowding; from Akron Beacon Journal
(OH), 12/18/08
- Could
Obama's Pro-Marijuana Commerce Secretary Spell a Golden Era for
Pot Reform? from AlterNet (US), 12/18/08
- Children Forced Into Cell-Like School Seclusion Rooms;
from CNN (US), 12/17/08
- Black
Women Struggle in Criminal Justice System; from TruthOut
(US), 12/13/08
- Girl Handing Out Cough Drops Accused Of Selling Drugs
At School; from News4Jax.com (FL), 12/16/08
- Federal
Law Does Not Trump State Laws On Medical Marijuana; from DrugSense
Weekly (US), 12/12/08
- Woman Charged With Killing FBI Agent in Drug Raid;
from Drug War Chronicle (US), 12/12/08
- CIA
Helped Shoot Down 15 Civilian Planes; from TruthOut (US),
12/11/08
- OpEd:
Arrests Can't Win Nation's Drug War; from Arizona Republic
(AZ), 12/5/08
- The
Price Of Justice; from The Monitor (TX), 12/7/08
- Column:
Waging War Against Drug Laws; from Spokesman Review (WA),
12/5/08
- OpEd:
Let's End Drug Prohibition; from Wall Street Journal (US),
12/5/08
- State
Universities vs. State Prisons; and Marijuana Legalization as
a Solution; from Informed Comment (US), 12/4/08
- US
Mulls Unusual Drug War Tactic as Blackwater Charges Loom; from
TruthOut (US), 12/4/08
- Mexico
Drug Cartels Send A Message Of Chaos, Death; from Washington
Post (DC), 12/4/08
- FBI
Agents Stage Sting To Snare Corrupt Ill. Cops; from Associated
Press (US), 12/3/08
- Repeal
Day Serves as Reminder of the Folly of Our Drug Laws; from FOX
News (US), 12/1/08
- Column:
Losing The War; from Minnesota Daily (MN), 11/30/08
- 27
Years In Prison For A Nonviolent Offense; from AlterNet
(US), 11/26/08
- Obama's
Drug Czar Pick: Will We Ever Get Past Having a War on Drugs?
from AlterNet (US), 11/25/08
- OpEd:
From My Cell I Scent The Reeking Soul Of US Justice; from Sunday
Times (UK), 11/23/08
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