Latin America: Mexico Drug War Update
The Mexican military killed a major drug lord last week, but that doesn't seem to have changed anything. The violence continues...
Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
It's a Texas trifecta for Christmas, plus an Alabama jail guard.
Heroin Maintenance: SALOME Trials Set to Begin in Vancouver
Move over NAOMI, here comes SALOME. Just in time for the Winter Olympics, a new heroin maintenance trial is set to get underway early next year in Vancouver.
Weekly: This Week in History
Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.
Wall Street Journal Says Marijuana Legalization Could Save Mexico
You know things have changed when mainstream media coverage of the war on drugs increasingly looks like this:
The whole piece is excellent and it's exactly this sort of thorough reporting that's been missing from the drug policy debate for far too long.
In the 40 years since U.S. President Richard Nixon declared a "war on drugs," the supply and use of drugs has not changed in any fundamental way. The only difference: a taxpayer bill of more than $1 trillion.
A senior Mexican official who has spent more than two decades helping fight the government's war on drugs summed up recently what he's learned from his long career: "This war is not winnable." [WSJ]
The whole piece is excellent and it's exactly this sort of thorough reporting that's been missing from the drug policy debate for far too long.
Medical Marijuana Cable Show "It's the Law"
Two local lawyers will take a closer look at medical marijuana in Maine -- Roger Katz and Walter McKee will host "It's the Law" on Time Warner Cable channel 9.