Colombia Bill Would Decriminalize Drug Plant Cultivation
A bill before the Colombian congress would decriminalize the cultivation of coca and marijuana in a bid to drive down raw drug prices and encourage peasant farmers to grow other crops. The bill is...
View ArticleJacksonville Police Kill Armed Man in Drug Raid
[image:1 align:left]A Jacksonville, Florida, narcotics detective shot and killed an armed man during a drug raid aimed at arresting a small-scale crack dealer last Thursday. Juan Montrice Lawrence, 40,...
View ArticleMost of North Carolina Grand Jury's Cases Are Drugs
A Pitt County (Greenville), North Carolina, grand jury offered up a batch of indictments on April 9 that suggest that the war on drugs is generating most of the criminal justice system activity in the...
View ArticleSouth Carolina Man Dies in Custody of Narcotics Officers
A 46-year-old South Carolina man died in police custody last Tuesday after being arrested for selling cocaine. Rodney Andrew Haymon of Westminster becomes the 26th person to die in US domestic drug law...
View ArticleJacksonville Cop Kills Unarmed Drug Suspect
A Jacksonville, Florida, police officer shot and killed an unarmed drug suspect during a traffic stop early last Wednesday morning when the man reached down inside his car. Davinian Darnell Williams,...
View ArticleColombia Bill to Decriminalize Drug Crops Advances
A the first draft of a bill that would decriminalize the cultivation of illegal drug plants in Colombia, including coca, opium poppies, and marijuana, was approved by its lower house of congress last...
View ArticleDEA Facing Fallout from Deadly Honduras Raid
In the Honduran village where four residents were killed last week by gunfire from a helicopter on a US-backed anti-drug operation complete with DEA agents on board the chopper, feelings continue to...
View ArticleMarijuana Legalization Hits 56% Support in Rasmussen Poll
A Rasmussen poll of likely voters released Tuesday found support for legalizing and regulating marijuana at 56% nationwide, a significant increase over a March Rasmussen poll and in line with other...
View ArticleA Festival of Lies: Perjury in a Michigan Cocaine Case [FEATURE]
special to Drug War Chronicle by Clarence Walker, cwalkerinvestigate@gmail.com[Editor's Note: Unless otherwise noted, the information in this article comes from official court documents in the cases...
View ArticleDanish Parliament Okays Drug Consumption Rooms
As of next week, supervised injection (and other drug consumption) sites will be legal in Denmark. Earlier this month, the Danish Parliament voted 63-43 to allow the facilities to open, including...
View ArticleColombian Coca Cultivation Ticks Upward
Coca cultivation in Colombia was on the rise again last year for the first time since 2007, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's (UNODC) latest annual Colombia Survey. The survey, which is...
View ArticleColombia, FARC Rebels Set Peace Talks
For the first time in nearly a decade, the Colombian government will sit down for peace talks with the Marxist guerrillas of the FARC, which has been fighting to create a socialist Colombia since 1964....
View ArticleBolivia, Venezuela Reject US Drug Criticism
Last Thursday, the White House released its annual determination of major drug trafficking or producing countries, the "majors," singling out Bolivia, Burma, and Venezuela as countries that have failed...
View ArticleColombia Okays Prescriptions for Addicts in Bogota
President Juan Manuel Santos has given the go-ahead to Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro's plan to prescribe otherwise illicit drugs to addicts in the Colombian capital, according to Colombian press reports...
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Chronicle Book Review Essay: Two Faces of the Drug War
Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History (2012, Lyons Press, 375 pp., $24.95 HB)Operation Fly Trap: LA Gangs, Drugs, and the Law, by...
View ArticleUS, Few Others Object to Bolivia UN Coca-Chewing Bid
Five Western countries -- the US, Canada, Britain, Italy, and Sweden -- have formally objected to Bolivia's rejoining the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs with a reservation that allows for...
View ArticleColombia's FARC Wants Legal Coca Cultivation
In peace talks in Havana Tuesday, Colombia's FARC guerrillas called on the Colombian government to consider legalizing coca cultivation. The proposal was part of the FARC's broader proposal on agrarian...
View ArticleSpending Cuts Hurting Cocaine Interdiction, Admiral Says
Spending cuts imposed by sequestration are devastating efforts to block the flow of cocaine into the US, the director of the Joint Interagency Task Force told the Defense Writers Group in Washington...
View ArticlePeru Rebels Call on Farmers to Defend Coca Crops
Remnants of Peru's Shining Path guerrillas are calling on coca farmers in the country's south-central coca-producing region to take up arms to defend their crops against government eradicators. The...
View ArticleBolivia, Venezuela Reject US Drug Criticism
Last Friday, the White House released its annual score card on other countries' compliance with US drug policy demands, the presidential determination on major drug producing and trafficking countries....
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