Drug War Chronicle

It's a veritable cornucopia of drug-related law enforcement corruption! We don't even know where to begin -- just jump in, but don't forget to take a shower after you're done.

Being the subject of a drug search warrant proved fatal for a young Massachusetts man last Friday.

Faced with a staggering corrections budget, Kentucky has become the latest state to enact substantive sentencing reforms.

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Scotland's Liberal Democrats want to reduce the harm to users and society alike by making heroin available through prescription.

The disaster that is Mexico's drug war has moved a Council on Foreign Relations scholar to call for the US to rethink its failed drug policies.

Here's yet another public opinion poll showing a rising trend-line for freeing the weed.

Washington could be the next medical marijuana state to allow dispensaries after a bill to do so passed the state Senate. It now goes to the House.

A traffic stop as part of a drug investigation turned deadly in Fort Worth Monday night. Police blame the suspect, but locals want an investigation.

While the US wallows in a sea of pain pills, much of the rest of the world goes without, the International Narcotics Control Board reported Wednesday. Not to be too liberal, the INCB is also worried about the rise of designer drugs.