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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
A Michigan detective goes to prison for peddling fentanyl, a Tennessee deputy is in trouble over a tricky scheme to get his hands on a vehicle seized in a drug bust, and more.
News Brief
Weed will be on the Senate's mind next week. (Creative Commons)
AZ Churches Sue Feds Over Ayahuasca Seizures, Schumer's Legalization Bill Coming Within Days, More... (7/20/22)
Indonesia's Constitutional Court rejects medical marijuana but calls for "immediate" study, DC Mayor signs workplace protection bill for marijuana users, more.
Texas State Capitol (Daniel Mayer, Wikimedia)
Australia's First Drug Checking Site Opens This Week, TX Bill Would Make Legal Pot a Local Option, More... (7/19/22)
There are marijuana reform rumblings in the Lone Star State, Ohio becomes the latest state to see a fentanyl test strip decriminalization bill, and more.
The number of Americans injecting drugs increased five-fold in the past decade. (Creative Commons)
Big Increase in Injection Drug Use, House Passes Another Spending Bill with SAFE Banking, More... (7/18/22)
British Tories audition a new scheme for punishing drug users that effectively decriminalizes somebody's first two drug busts, a new study finds racial disparities in Pennsylvania marijuana arrests increasing, and more.
Coca and cocaine production remained relatively stable at high levels last year. (Pixabay)
House Approves SAFE Banking Again, Colombia Cocaine Production Down Slightly, More... (7/15/22)
The NYPD reverses course on testing cops for marijuana, Colorado's governor signs an executive order protecting marijuana-using workers from discrimination, and more.
Marijuana is on the agenda on Capitol Hill. (Creative Commons)
Senate Democrats' Legal Weed Bill Coming Next Week, Peru Seeks US Help With Cocaine Planes, More... (7/14/22)
Some marijuana and psychedelic amendments have made it into a defense spending bill, Germany's Left Party is calling for drug decriminalization, and more.
San Francisco's Tenderloin (Creative Commons)
MA Drug Decrim Bills Move to Study Phase, New San Francisco DA Pledges Drug Crackdown, More... (7/13/22)
DC's congressional delegate files an amendment to allow marijuana use in public housing in places where weed is legal, Connecticut hands out its first social equity marijuana growing licenses, and more.
psychedelic pioneer Ann Shulgin (MAPS)
PA Governor Signs Pot Banking Protection Bill, RIP Ann Shulgin, Violence in Peru's Coca Zone, More... (7/12/22)
Pennsylvania will provide some protections to banks and insurers doing business with pot companies, a Florida therapeutic psilocybin bill is filed, and more.
The former president lauded China for executing drug offenders and suggested we should do the same. (Creative Commons)
NY Grey Market Pot Shop Crackdown, Trump Praises China's Death Penalty for Drugs, More... (7/11/22)
It looks like they will be voting to free the weed in North Dakota this year, Customs officers nail a 5,000 load of methamphetamine near the Mexican border, and more.
A Nebraska medical marijuana initaitive campaign faces nail-biting time after handing in signatures with very little cushion.
ND Legalization Init Hands in Signatures, No More Sales Tax for NJ Patients, More... (7/8/22)
Signatures are handed in for a marijuana legalization initaitive in North Dakota and a medical marijuana initiative in Nebraska, and more.