Drug War Chronicle

An outline of DRCNet's plans and recent accomplishments and an appeal for your support to make it all happen.

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

Iran rang in the new year by hanging three drug offenders, and Vietnam sentenced eight more to die.

If you're in pain at a hospital emergency room, you're more likely to get the medication you need if you're white, a new study has found.

The Texas legislature last year gave local law enforcement the option of ticketing misdemeanor marijuana offenders instead of arresting them, but only Travis County has gone for it.

Less than two weeks after Congress finally removed a decade-old ban on the District of Columbia using its own money to fund needle exchanges, District officials announced they would spend $650,000 to expand existing program and start new ones.

North Wales Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom is at it again. The veteran critic of drug prohibition has stirred up a hornet's nest with his latest comments, including one that ecstasy is "safer than aspirin."

It's a new year, but there are lots of ongoing issues for the Chronicle to cover. Here's a look at what we think we'll be writing about in 2008.

A crooked Florida cop seeks a sentence cut, and two more jail guards get in trouble.

Some of the drug war's issues are bitter constants. But when the time is ripe, the changes we are working for will come to be.