Drug War Chronicle

¿Será que la Administración de Temas Relacionados con Veteranos (VA, por sus siglas en inglés) de EE. UU. está cambiando de opinión respecto a la marihuana medicinal? Bueno, no exactamente, pero parece que por lo menos ahora no echará a las personas de sus programas de terapia del dolor si son usuarias registradas en un estado en que ella sea legal.

La Asamblea Legislativa de Rhode Island está a punto de aprobar el proyecto de ley sobre los dispensarios de marihuana medicinal con márgenes abrumadoras a prueba de veto. ¡Chúpese ésa, gobernador Carcieri!

Esta semana leyes sobre la marihuana medicinal han progresado en dos estados más con proyectos de ley que avanzaron en Nueva Yérsey y Delaware. Pero el proyecto de Nueva Yérsey también se ha puesto más restrictivo.

Policías se embolsan dinero oriundo de la droga, policías roban a narcotraficantes, policías protegen a narcotraficantes, policías roban drogas y, por supuesto, otro guardia de cárcel contrabandea drogas.

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

As the Senate debated the FDA tobacco regulation bill it approved yesterday, one Republican senator called his colleagues hypocrites and urged them to support an outright ban. Was it just posturing?

The Obama administration used an Albuquerque press conference to unveil and tout its latest proposals for dealing with Mexico's drug trafficking organizations and the prohibition-related violence around them, but is it anything other than more of the same old same old?

The Canadian House of Commons voted Monday to adopt US-style mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses, including small-time marijuana grows. The only chance to defeat the measure now lies with the Canadian Senate, an unelected body not generally known for second-guessing the House.

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