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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
There's big problems in the Nassau County, Florida, sheriff's office, and more drug prohibition-related police misconduct as well.
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A client prepares to fix at Vancouver's Insite safe injection site. (Image: Insite)Montreal Agency Calls for Four Safe Injection Sites
Montreal wants four safe injection sites for hard drug users. The city's public health agency and mayor have given the okay, but now they need provincial funding and federal approval. -
This pill bottle fulls of opiate pain pills could get you 20 years or more in North Carolina. (wikimedia.org)North Carolina Opium Law Snares Small Prescription Pain Pill Holders
A North Carolina law aimed at heroin traffickers is rolling up people with pain pills and sending them to prison for a long, long time. -
Afghan police guard the Iranian Embassy during January 2011 protests against Iranian executions of Afghans (wikimedia.orgAmnesty International Condemns Iran Drug Executions
Iran is executing hundreds of drug offenders, and that violates international law, says Amnesty International in a new report condemning the killings. -
prison-overcrowding_1.jpgUS Prison Population in First Decline Since 1972
The number of people in prison in the US has dropped for the first time since 1972, and the number of people under correctional supervision has declined for the second year in a row. Is a sea change at hand? -
800px-United_States_Capitol_-_west_front_0.jpgCongress Votes to Restore Needle Exchange Funding Ban
Ignoring strong evidence that needle exchange programs prevent the spread of AIDS and other blood-borne diseases, the US Congress has decided to ban the use of federal funds for them. -
No dispensaries for Arizona if Gov. Brewer has her way. (wikimedia.org)Arizona Governor Asks Federal Judge to Void Part of Medical Marijuana Law
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has decided the state will argue in federal court that federal law preempts the dispensary provisions in the state's voter-approved medical marijuana law. -
parthenon_56.gifThis Week in History
Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past. -
mtf-2011.jpgTeens Rejecting Alcohol, Tobacco; Selecting Marijuana [FEATURE]
The annual Monitoring the Future survey of high school students find cigarette and alcohol use down, but marijuana use up. -
Cash and guns Mexico_21.jpgMexico Drug War Update
Mass murders in Ciudad Juarez and the Comarca Lagunera, and the army killed 11 cartel gunmen in Tamaulipas. Just another week in Mexico's prohibition-related violence.