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Drug War Chronicle #706 - October 27, 2011

Phillip S. Smith, Editor - David Borden, Executive Director
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Help Us Make Some Important Decisions

The fight to stop the drug war has entered its possibly most critical time to date, a time of major challenges but also unprecedented opportunities. We need your help today to decide whether StoptheDrugWar.org can enter this moment at full strength.
What a difference a couple of years makes. (Image: Phil Smith)
What a difference a couple of years makes. (Image: Phil Smith)

Obama Met With San Francisco Medical Marijuana Protest [FEATURE]

The Obama administration's increasingly hostile approach to medical marijuana distribution in California brought out protestors by the hundreds as the president went to San Francisco for a fundraiser.
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Bay Area Pols Slam Feds' Medical Marijuana Crackdown

A pair of Bay area state legislators are blasting the federal government for its California medical marijuana crackdown and saying they could craft a legislative fix if the Justice Department cooperates.
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Mexico Drug War Update

Somebody attacked Mexican army troops in Monterrey with a car last week, and that's just the tip of the iceberg in the ongoing wave of prohibition-related violence in Mexico.
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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories

A Texas DA gets greedy, and so do a California narc, a California prison worker, a Washington state evidence clerk, and a Washington, DC, police officer.
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Still Time to Get to the International Drug Policy Reform Conference, LA, 11/2-5

Every two years drug policy reformers from across the United States and around the world come to the International Drug Policy Reform Conference to listen, learn, network and strategize together for change. This year the conference is in Los Angeles, November 2-5, and StoptheDrugWar.org is a partner.
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