Drug War Chronicle

California has a well-deserved reputation for being on the cutting edge of social change. What are the prospects for drug reform there now?

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

Two El Paso teenagers were among the victims of prohibition-related violence in Mexico this past week. The death toll since Calderon took office is now at more than 35,000.

A Wisconsin narc crosses the line, and cops in Houston and Philadelphia pay for getting too greedy.

The Islamic Republic is resorting to the same old hard-line tactics as it confronts a new -- to Iran -- drug threat.

Pot decriminalization is moving in the Hawaii Senate, but not so much in the House.

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The Virginia legislature has taken a couple of giant steps toward banning fake pot. Bills have unanimously passed both the House and Senate and now need only to be reconciled before heading to the governor.

Lost in Translation: Mostafa Soliman's trials and tribulations before and after the protests began, for importing hemp oil into Egypt border on the surreal. But there's nothing funny about the possible death sentence he's looking at.

Add the Inter-American Dialogue to the ever-growing list of drug war critics. The group has just issued a new report calling for a fundamental rethinking of US drug policy.