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Law Enforcement: Utah "Meth Cops" Lose Out on Health Claims
More than 50 Utah law enforcement officers have filed workers compensation claims over ailments they believe were caused by exposure to methamphetamine labs, but none have been approved, and most have...
View ArticleLatin America: Mexico Drug War Update
by Bernd Debusmann, Jr.Mexican drug trafficking organizations make billions each year trafficking illegal drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the prohibitionist drug policies of the...
View ArticleLaw Enforcement: Video of SWAT Team Killing Dogs in Front of Child During Pot...
A February SWAT raid in Columbia, Missouri, in which police shot two dogs, killing one of them, in front of a Columbia man and his terrified wife and seven-year-old child is stirring outrage months...
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Press Release: Reformers to Call for New Approach at Annual Marijuana...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 7, 2010Reformers to Call for New Approach at...
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NEW LOCATION: Reformers to Call for New Approach TODAY at Marijuana...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 10, 2010Reformers to Call for New Approach...
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Feature: Reining in SWAT -- Towards Effective Oversight of Paramilitary...
As is periodically the case, law enforcement SWAT teams have once again come under the harsh gaze of a public outraged and puzzled by their excesses. First, it was the February SWAT raid on a Columbia,...
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Latin America: Mexico Drug War Update
by Bernd Debusmann, Jr.Mexican drug trafficking organizations make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the prohibitionist drug policies of the US...
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What's the Big Deal About Narco-Subs?
The DEA is proud of having helped Ecuadoran authorities capture this "narco-sub":Silly DEA -- don't they realize what the implications are, of drug traffickers having the wherewithal to operate a...
View ArticleCalifornia Endures Another Summer of Outdoor Marijuana Raids [FEATURE]
It's August in California, and that means the state's multi-billion outdoor marijuana crop is ripening in the fields. It also means that the nearly 30-year-old effort to uproot those plants, the...
View ArticleMexico Drug War Update
by Bernd Debusmann, Jr. Mexican drug trafficking organizations make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the prohibitionist drug policies of the US...
View ArticleSettlement Reached in Maryland Mayor's SWAT Raid Lawsuit
Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo's lawsuit against Prince Georges County, Maryland over a 2008 SWAT raid in which his two dogs were shot dead and he was held at gunpoint is over. Calvo told the...
View ArticleDrug Prohibition's Cocaine Traffickers Have Proven Both Vicious and Resilient
Since the beginning of the drug prohibition war, the drug trade has ballooned, spreading violence and corruption across large parts of the globe. Despite billions spent on combating them drug...
View ArticleMexico Drug War Update
by Bernd Debusmann Jr. Mexican drug trafficking organizations make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the prohibitionist drug policies of the US...
View ArticleMexican Army Seizes 15 Tons of Methamphetamine
Mexican army troops seized an astounding 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco, the Mexican military announced last Wednesdayt. That's an amount equal to half of all the meth...
View ArticleDrug War Snapshot: Volusia County, Florida
Volusia County, Florida, situated midway up the state's Atlantic Coast, has just under half a million people, and if its July 6 county jail bookings are any indication, it has one heck of a drug...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- February 13, 2014
A bill has been filed to stop forcing the drug czar to oppose drug legalization, CBD medical marijuana bills continue to get attention, and there are big doings south of the border, and more. Let's get...
View ArticleThe Capture of El Chapo: A Capo Gone, But the Trade Goes On [FEATURE]
Special to the Chronicle by Bernd Debusmann, Jr., who is currently studying for an MA in International Journalism at City University London. Prior to that, he lived and worked in his native Mexico,...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- May 7, 2014
A reform rollback in New Zealand, a hearing on DC decrim in Congress tomorrow, a medical marijuana trial becomes a travesty, the DEA makes another change-nothing drug bust, and more. Let's get to...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- June 5, 2014
An Arkansas marijuana legalization initiative can start signature-gathering, DC's medical marijuana program now includes more eligible conditions, Tennessee's governor unveils his prescription drug...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- June 13, 2014
Jamaica will decriminalize pot possession and Bermuda is thinking about it, legalization initiatives in Alaska and Oregon get big bucks donations, medical marijuana reform is moving in the DC city...
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