Drug War Chronicle

Importantes activistas están llevando el mensaje de la reforma de las políticas de las drogas en la disputa para gobernador de Connecticut y en la disputa de Maryland para el Senado de los EE.UU.

Durante el fin de semana, empezaron a aparecer noticias de que el Consejo de Senlis, que defiende el desvío de la producción de adormideras hacia el mercado medicinal lícito, había sido echado de Afganistán. Eso no es verdad, dice el grupo.

Si los impositores de la ley escenifican una redada de drogas de alta visibilidad con la intención de influenciar el resultado del proceso legislativo, ¿eso es hacer presión?

If law enforcers stage a high-profile drug bust with the intention of influencing the outcome of the legislative process, is it lobbying?

New Jersey is the last state in the nation without either needle exchange programs or access to syringes without a prescription, but with bills moving in committee, that could soon change.

The Italian cabinet Thursday gave its approval for the use of marijuana derivatives in the relief of pain.

Prominent activists are carrying the drug reform message in the Connecticut governor's race and the Maryland US Senate race.

Despite press reports to the contrary, a think tank advocating licensing of Afghanistan's opium crop for the licit medical market has not been banned from the country, the group says.

Documentary filmmaker Jed Riffe's "Waiting to Inhale: Marijuana, Medicine, and the Law" very successfully pulls together all the threads of the medical marijuana story in this compelling video.

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