Colombia Suspends Use of Aerial Herbicide to Kill Coca Crops [FEATURE]
[This article was written in collaboration with AlterNet and originally appeared here.][image:1 align:right caption:true]Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced today that he is halting the...
View ArticleChronicle AM: First DE Dispensary Opens, OR Pot Legalization Starts...
Marijuana becomes legal in Oregon this week (except for sales), Washington's legislature moves to modify pot legalization there, Delaware becomes the latest state to see dispensaries arrive, the policy...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Oregon Pot Sales Could Start in October; MT & NM Forfeiture...
Oregon is working to expedite the beginning of legal pot sales, Rand Paul rakes in the campaign cash at a pot industry confab in Denver, asset forfeiture reforms go into effect in Montana and New...
View ArticleChronicle AM: WA Gets Big Bucks From First Year Pot Taxes, Synthetic Drugs...
Marijuana sales tax revenues exceeded expectations in Washington state, New Hampshire bans new synthetics, Colombia's FARC rebels say they're ready to move on implementing drug provisions of the...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Fed Marijuana Banking Bill, Flying High Out of PDX, Pope Sips...
A bill to allow marijuana businesses access to banking services has been filed in Congress, Oregon's largest airport okays flying with pot (in-state only), Indiana's Church of Cannabis is suing the...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Big CA Pot Legalization Init Coming Soon, Italian Pot...
We're waiting for the big one to drop in California, there's pot arrest expungement news from Jamaica and Ohio, Colorado rejects medical marijuana for PTSD, Chris Christie talks crime and drug policy,...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Chris Christie Picks Fight With Weed, New DEA Head Concedes Pot...
Chris Christie is beating up on marijuana again, Ohio officials continue to play hardball with ResponsibleOhio, DEA Administrator Chuck Rosenberg takes a tiny step forward, Colombian peasants are...
View ArticleChronicle AM: White House Focuses on Heroin, Peru Coca Tensions Rise, CO Pot...
It's big bucks for the Colorado marijuana industry (and the state's tax revenues), there's more initiative news, the White House takes on heroin, Peruvian coca farmers are feeling the pinch of...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Utah SWAT Raids Almost All Drugs, Bolivia Reduces Coca Growing...
A Wisconsin tribe may legalize marijuana, Ohio foes line up against the legalization initiative there, more Washington state dispensaries will be forced to close, a Utah SWAT reporting law shows what...
View ArticleChronicle AM: CA Cops Raid Indian Reservation Grow, Colombia Announces New...
The era of aerial herbicide spraying of Colombia's coca crops is at an end, California cops raid an Indian reservation marijuana operation, medical marijuana bills are moving in Michigan, and...
View ArticleAs Peace Negotiations Advance, Colombia Revamps Drug Policy [FEATURE]
Marking the end of an era, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Tuesday unveiled a new policy for dealing with coca cultivation and cocaine production, one that will rely on crop substitution and...
View ArticleChronicle AM: The Pope on Dope, Marijuana Arrests Jump, NYC Safe Injection...
The pope criticizes the drug war at the UN, the president addresses overdoses and addiction in his weekly address, marijuana arrests jumped last year, a campaign to bring safe injection sites to New...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Thousands of Federal Drug Prisoners to Be Freed, Ohio Early...
Major sentencing news today; early voting starts today in Ohio (marijuana legalization is on the ballot), a North Carolina hemp bill has gone to the governor, Colombia will still spray a nasty...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Portland Nixes "Green Light District," UN Reports Afghan Opium...
No pot tourism district for Portland, at least for now; New Jersey gets a fifth dispensary, Croatia legalizes medical marijuana, Afghan opium production fell by nearly half last year, and more....
View ArticleChronicle AM: LEAP Endorses Ohio Initiative, Federal Drug War Prisoners Start...
LEAP endorses Ohio's Issue 3, another tribe wants in on the medical marijuana action, a West Virginia mayor calls fro drug decriminalization, backers of Bolivia's president are using coca as campaign...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Petition to Fire DEA Head Gains Traction, Colombia OKs Medical...
There are now more than 27,000 signatures on a petition asking President Obama to fire DEA head Chuck Rosenberg over his medical marijuana comments, Denver thinks a thousand pot shops is enough,...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Mid-Atlantic MedMJ Moves, Bolivia's President Chooses Official...
Applicants have overwhelmed Maryland medical marijuana regulators, a New Jersey school becomes the first in the country to allow medical marijuana on campus, Bolivia's president chooses an official...
View ArticleThe Top 10 International Drug Policy Stories of 2015 [FEATURE]
Last century's international prohibitionist consensus on drug policy continued to crumble this year, with moves to relax controls on medical and personal use of marijuana leading the way. But harm...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Bolivia to Fight at UN to Decriminalize Coca, No MedMJ...
Some former NFL players would rather treat their aches and pains with medical marijuana than opiates, an effort to put medical marijuana on the ballot in Oklahoma comes up short, Bolivia's president...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Supreme Court Takes Up CO Legalization, DEA Can't Keep Track of...
The Supreme Court will decide if the case against Colorado can go forward, Ohio pot legalizers call it quits for now, Detroit dispensaries are facing a crackdown, a New Jersey bill would criminalize...
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