Drug War Chronicle

The Marijuana Policy Project is hiring fall interns to work in their State Policies and Federal Policies departments.

The Marijuana Policy Project has a TV ad campaign supporting the taxation and regulation of marijuana running in California. But don't be surprised if you haven't seen it -- several major TV stations don't want you to.

Mexico's prohibition-related violence is very ugly, and it's not just the narcos committing atrocities. The Mexican military has been accused of more than 2,000 human rights abuses, ranging from theft and robbery to rape, torture, and murder as it wages war on the so-called cartels.

Apply for an internship at DRCNet and you could spend a semester fighting the good fight!

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Bryan Epis was the first medical marijuana provider to be prosecuted by the federal government, and he is one of dozens of people whose fate is still caught up in the federal system despite recent policy shifts by the Obama administration. Bryan is asking all of us to take action to help those who have risked much to help patients.

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Más corrupción en Filadelfia, más repercusiones del asesinato de Kathryn Johnston en Atlanta y un agente fronterizo deshonesto más.

¡Arriba Barney! El congresista estadounidense Barney Frank ha introducido un proyecto de ley que despenalizaría la tenencia de casi 115 gramos de marihuana como máximo y la distribución sin ánimo de lucro de hasta 28 gramos. Es un comienzo.

Ha habido cierta preocupación por que la Corte Suprema de EE. UU. dejara impune a un distrito escolar de Arizona por cachear al desnudo una colegiala para buscar pastillas de ibuprofeno. No lo hizo.