Drug War Chronicle

Una encuesta publicada el jueves descubrió que el 76% de los posibles votantes cree que la lucha contra la droga está fracasando y el 27% dice que la solución es legalizar algunas drogas.

Un hombre de Iowa con congestión nasal crónica ha transgredido la legislación de su estado que visa a tomar medidas duras contra los preparadores de metanfetamina.

La vigilancia policíaca corrupta cubre toda la gama esta semana: de un ex jefe de policía preso por traficar drogas, un policía pillado por actuar como intermediario en una treta de soborno y unos policías mentirosos investigados por un juez federal a una cuadrilla de detectives pícaros que cuesta a su empleador un buen acuerdo y otro policía bellaco que ha sido prófugo de la Justicia durante los últimos cinco años.

Peruvian government efforts to crack down on coca growers in some parts of the country are causing them to expand into indigenous regions in the central Peruvian jungle. Local residents are not pleased.

Relations between the US and Bolivia continue to worsen. Late last week, Bolivia barred DEA surveillance planes from overflying the country, and on Saturday, President Morales scorned US anti-drug policy.

Drug reform hasn't been much of an issue in the presidential campaign, but there are differences between the major party candidates -- and much larger differences between them and a trio of minor party candidates with solidly radical drug reform proposals. For whom to vote?

A decade ago, Washington voters approved a medical marijuana law. Now, the state Department of Health has set quantity limits.

A cocaine shortage is leading to a wave of killings in Cincinnati. Local officials are close to making the link between prohibition and the violence, but they're not there yet.

In 2002, the Office of National Drug Control Policy set goals of reducing marijuana and overall drug use. Despite artful manipulation of the numbers, ONDCP has failed at its stated goal, but it has managed to drive into treatment thousands of pot smokers who didn't need it.

Drug testing violates personal privacy. Now, at least one widely-used drug testing kit has been proven to be a scam too.