Drug War Chronicle

No son sólo los maestros, la asistencia sanitaria y los parques que hacen frente al hacha presupuestaria en California. Algunos agentes antidrogas estatales también pueden perder sus empleos.

Un policía deshonesto de Chicago va preso y atrapan a un par de guardias de prisión.

In 2005, voters in Denver approved the legalization of possession of up to an ounce of marijuana, though local authorities have since ignored that vote. Now, voters in the Colorado ski town of Breckenridge will get the same opportunity. A local initiative is headed for this November's ballot -- unless the town council just goes ahead and approves it first.

Uno lo ve todo el tiempo: Un párvulo arrestado por besar a una compañera de clase, una estudiante de escuela intermediaria cacheada al desnudo en una caza desesperada de ibuprofeno, un alumno de secundaria preso por llevar un porro al colegio. Todo eso forma parte de <em>The War on Kids</em> [La guerra a los niños], de acuerdo con un nuevo documental del mismo nombre. Lo criticamos esta semana.

Medical marijuana supporters in Colorado won a major victory Monday night as the state Board of Health voted down a Department of Public Health and Environment proposal that would have strictly defined caregivers and limited them to providing for no more than five patients.

You've heard of medical marijuana vending machines in Los Angeles, right? Well, the UK one-ups LA with methadone vending machines in its prisons.

What a difference control of Congress makes! For years, pressure has been building to redress the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. Now, finally, a bill that would do that is moving in the House, and while it's a Democratic bill it's getting strong bipartisan support. Things are looking good in the Senate too.

Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.

Spoken like a true drug czar -- Gil Kerlikowske does his best John Walters impression and succeeds pretty well.

The Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative is hiring a new executive director. IDPI mobilizes religious denominations and organizations, clergy, and other people of faith to promote drug policy reform proposals under serious current consideration in Congress and the states, while building public support for replacing drug prohibition with reasonable regulation.