Ex-Border Patrol Agent Sues Over Firing After Making Drug Legalization Statement
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit for a former Border Patrol agent who claims he was fired - just weeks before his probationary period ended - in part because he said drug...
View ArticleAgent Fired for Legalization Views Sues Border Patrol
The US Border Patrol is being sued by a former agent who was fired in 2009 after expressing opinions in support of drug legalization and of sympathy for illegal immigrants to a coworker. In a lawsuit...
View ArticleMexico No Longer Has Free Press Thanks to Drug Prohibition
An annual report by an independent advocacy group said that Mexico can no longer be considered to have a free press due to drug prohibition violence. According to Freedom House, Mexico was listed...
View ArticleBrazil Supreme Court Rules Pro-Marijuana Marches Are Legal
The Brazilian Supreme Court ruled June 15 that marches in favor of marijuana legalization can take place. The decision overturns various lower-court decisions that had banned them as "apology for drug...
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Chronicle Book Review: BONG HiTS 4 JESUS
BONG HiTS 4 JESUS: A Perfect Constitutional Storm in Alaska's Capital by James Foster (2011, University of Alaska Press, 373 pp., $29.95 PB) In January 2002, as Olympic torchbearers making their way to...
View ArticleFeds Threaten Medical Marijuana Advertisers
The Justice Department's revived offensive against medical marijuana distribution is expanding to include media outlets that advertise for dispensaries, a California US Attorney told California Watch...
View ArticleTexas Woman Jailed for Outing Narc on Facebook
In a case that would appear to raise First Amendment questions, a Mesquite, Texas, woman has been arrested and charged with a felony after she allegedly posted a photograph of an undercover narcotics...
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 ArticleChronicle AM -- February 17, 2014
Olympic drug testers back off on marijuana, a surprise marijuana vote in New Mexico, a bad medical marijuana bill in Michigan, NYPD's most sued cops are all narcs, a new South Australian law...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- February 18, 2014
Marijuana legalization is unlikely to come to California this year, ditto for Missouri, ditto for medical marijuana in Iowa. Meanwhile, a SWAT reporting bill is moving in Utah, Singapore is censoring a...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- July 2, 2014
The Louisiana State Bar goes where the state legislature wouldn't, the Florida medical marijuana initiative gets a big cash donation, the CDC issues an eye-opening report on opioid prescribing, some...
View ArticleChronicle AM: AK Regulators Want to Ban MJ Social Clubs, ME Gov Threatens to...
Alaska regulators want to ban marijuana social clubs, Chris Christie signs a bill allowing methadone in drug court programs, a new report says Illinois needs to do better on heroin treatment, Russia...
View ArticleChronicle AM: First Las Vegas MedMJ Shop, Peru Restarting Drug Plane...
A Wisconsin tribe moves toward legal marijuana, Oakland's effort to back the Harborside dispensary gets shot down in federal court, Peru wants to shoot down drug planes again, both major Kentucky...
View ArticleChronicle AM: DC AG Talks Decrim, IL Gov Vetoes Medicare Heroin Treatment...
Another South Florida community moves toward marijuana decrim, GOP primary state voters want the feds to stay out of state marijuana policies, DC's top prosecutor hints at drug decrim, Illinois's...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Mexico Legalization Debate Gets Underway, NH Gov Signs Heroin...
New Hampshire's governor signs a package of heroin and prescription opiate bills, a similar package goes to the desk of the Wisconsin governor, Illinois patients seek to add more qualifying conditions,...
View ArticleChronicle AM: NM Senate on MedMJ & Harm Reduction; Iowa Students Win Speech...
Medical marijuana and harm reduction measures advance in New Mexico, a police drug field test kit maker is being sued by a Florida man busted for the glaze on his Krispy Kreme donuts, Idaho considers...
View ArticleMexico No Longer Has Free Press Thanks to Drug Prohibition
An annual report by an independent advocacy group said that Mexico can no longer be considered to have a free press due to drug prohibition violence. According to Freedom House, Mexico was listed...
View ArticleBrazil Supreme Court Rules Pro-Marijuana Marches Are Legal
The Brazilian Supreme Court ruled June 15 that marches in favor of marijuana legalization can take place. The decision overturns various lower-court decisions that had banned them as "apology for drug...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Chronicle Book Review: BONG HiTS 4 JESUS
BONG HiTS 4 JESUS: A Perfect Constitutional Storm in Alaska's Capital by James Foster (2011, University of Alaska Press, 373 pp., $29.95 PB) In January 2002, as Olympic torchbearers making their way to...
View ArticleFeds Threaten Medical Marijuana Advertisers
The Justice Department's revived offensive against medical marijuana distribution is expanding to include media outlets that advertise for dispensaries, a California US Attorney told California Watch...
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