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ALERT: Don't Let Congress Backslide on Needle Exchange

Republicans in Congress are pushing to reinstate a ban on use of federal AIDS funds for needle exchange programs. If they succeed, if won't reduce federal spending, but it will kill people. Please call today to tell Congress and the President to say no.
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drug testing paraphernalia (wikimedia.org)

Federal Unemployment Benefits Drug Test Bill Introduced

A Republican congressman from Georgia has introduced a bill that would mandate drug screening assessments for unemployment applicants and drug tests for those assessed as having a "high probability" of being drug users. But he cited only apocryphal evidence for any need for such legislation.
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This crack smoker could get treatment instead of jail under a new Polish law (image via wikimedia.org)
This crack smoker could get treatment instead of jail under a new Polish law (image via wikimedia.org)

Poland "Treatment Not Jail" Drug Law Now in Effect

A new law allowing prosecutors to divert small-time drug possessors into treatment instead of prison went into effect Friday.
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Spice and other synthetic cannabinoids and stimulants will be banned under the bill passed by the House (wikimedia.org)
Spice and other synthetic cannabinoids and stimulants will be banned under the bill passed by the House (wikimedia.org)

US House Votes to Ban New Synthetic Drugs

As expected, the House of Representatives has passed a bill banning synthetic stimulants and cannabinoids. On the positive side, 98 members voted against responding to the drugs with a new prohibition.
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US House Set to Pass Bad Drug Bills [FEATURE]

Going in the face of an ever-increasing clamor to reform decades of failed drug policies, the US House of Representatives is poised to pass two bills that promise more of the same. 

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This Week in History

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

Some congressional Republicans want to know why the DEA is laundering money for drug cartels.

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Mexico Drug War Update

Some congressional Republicans want to know why the DEA is laundering money for drug cartels. Meanwhile, the killings continue.
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US House Set to Pass Bad Drug Bills [FEATURE]

The House of Representatives is poised to pass two drug war bills, one banning synthetic marijuana and stimulants, the other criminalizing planning to do something abroad that would violate US drug laws if done here.
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