Drug War Chronicle

To gently chide Mexico for continuing human rights violations by its military, the US will withold $26 million that Mexico won't see until next year anyway. To make up for that, the US is releasing $36 million it withheld last year.

Prop 19's lead has dropped three points in the latest SurveyUSA poll, but it's still leading with the election less than 60 days away.

California arrested more than 60,000 pot smokers last year, but that's just the tip of the iceberg on the state's drug arrests.

Voters in Madison, Wisconsin, will have a chance to tell their legislators where they stand on medical marijuana in November, and a second town is considering it, too.

The big news in Mexico this week was the capture of "La Barbie," a major figure in the drug wars. Will it make any difference?

The drug war has become an issue in the Kentucky Senate race after Republican Rand Paul attacked federal funding of drug task forces.

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

Despite some confusing reporting in the past couple of weeks, the bottom line in Germany is "no" to medical marijuana, but "yes" to Sativex.

In California, small time pot possession is still a misdemeanor even though the maximum sentence is a $100 fine. The legislature has just passed a bill to fully decriminalize it by making it an infraction.

Oh, temptation, such a torment for the weak-willed. A South Carolina cop peddle's his drug dog's training dope, an Iowa cop gets caught with a bunch of coke, and a Florida trooper is profiling out-of-state pain patients and stealing their medicine.