Drug War Chronicle

A pro-legalization US representative was the keynote speaker at the NORML conference in Denver Saturday. He said we're on the cusp of victory.

Just when you thought Oklahoma couldn't get any more medieval...

Federal prosecutors threw a stink bomb in the room just as the Washington legislature was finalizing a medical marijuana dispensary bill. Now, the bill's future is in doubt.

The annual Drug Policy Alliance is accepting Letters of Inquiry -- due by April 29 -- for its 2011/2012 Promoting Policy Change grants program.

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

Skinning people alive!? Just when you thought it couldn't get any more gruesome.

Cops stealing drug money, jail guards smuggling dope, deputies helping traffickers... and narcs gone wild in Peoria. Just another week in the drug war.

Vermont is another step closer to medical marijuana dispensaries after the state Senate approved a bill Friday. But there were trade-offs.

A new study of Vancouver drug overdoses shows they have decreased dramatically in the Downtown Eastside since a safe injection site opened there.

A 24-year-old Toledo, Ohio, man is dead after firing on police who came to arrest him on drug charges.