Rick Steves dishes out some travel tips for the attorney general. (Wikimedia)
Rick Steves Has Three Must-Sees for a Jeff Sessions European Drug Policy Trip
The travel guru offers to personally help enlighten the attorney general.
Methadone & Other Opiate Maintenance
Jeff Sessions and major law enforcement groups are trying to kill the Senate sentencing reform bill. (senate.gov)
Chronicle AM: Senate Sentencing Reform Bill Under Attack, DEA Threatens SIJs, More... (2/15/18)
The Marijuana Justice Act gets a third cosponsor, the DEA threatens to go after safe injection sites, the attorney general and leading law enforcement groups target the Senate sentencing reform bill, and much, much more.
Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of Oxycontin says it will no longer market its opioid products to doctors. (Wikimedia.org)
Chronicle AM: New Drug Czar Nominee, Purdue Pharma Stops Marketing Opioids to Docs, More... (2/12/18)
Good marijuana polling in Florida and New York, record marijuana sales in Colorado, the White House nominates a new drug czar, Purdue Pharma makes a big announcement, and more.
BC health officials are going to start giving hydromorphone (Dilaudid) to chronic opioid users. (Wikimedia)
Chronicle AM: BC Pilot Program Will Provide Free Opioids to Entrenched Users, More... (12/21/17)
Austin mellows out on pot policy, the VA lets doctors talk about -- but not recommend -- medical marijuana to patients, British Columbia is set to begin a pilot project of giving medical-grade opioids to chronic users, and more.
The 1998 UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs. We've made some progress since then. (Creative Commons)
Looking Back: The Biggest International Drug Policy Stories of the Past 20 Years [FEATURE]
With a thousand issues of Drug War Chronicle under our belts, we look back on the biggest international drug and drug policy stories of the past 20 years.
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Chronicle AM: Ontario Goes With State-Owned Pot Shops, DEA Agent's Sordid Affair, More... (9/11/17)
Canada's most populous province is going with a state monopoly on legal marijuana sales, the CARERS Act is back, last week's surprise budget deal preserves protections for legal medical marijuana states for a few more months, and more.
British Columbia health officials say users should be provided drugs to take home, be able to grow opium poppies. (Wikimedia)
Chronicle AM: BC Calls for Radical Opioid Response, 2nd MI MJ Init, More... (8/17/17)
BC health officials present some revolutionary recommendations for dealing with the opioid crisis, Alaska officials defend marijuana legalization, a second Michigan legalization initiative is okayed for signature gathering, and more.
With overdoses at record levels, Trump's presidential commission takes a largely public health approach to the crisis.
Chronicle AM: WH Opioid Panel Calls for Declaration of National Emergency, More... (8/1/2017)
Federal bills to legalize pot and to allow drug testing of people seeking unemployment benefits get filed, the presidential commission on opioids issues a preliminary reports, the NFL offers to work with the players' union on medical marijuana, and more.
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America, We Can Fix This: 24 Ways to Reduce Opioid Overdoses and Addiction [FEATURE]
The science and evidence base is there. What is needed is the political will, and a little care.
The Canadian marijuana legalization bill is now being debated.
Chronicle AM: Senators' Sessions Forfeiture Letter, Canada Legalization Debate, More... (5/31/17)
A bipartisan group of US senators has sent Attorney General Sessions a letter asking him to rein in federal civil asset forfeiture, the Rhode Island House is voting on a pot legalization study commission, the Canadian parliament begins debating the government's legalization bill, and more.