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For the past two years, Drug War Chronicle has been tracking all the US deaths directly attributable to domestic drug law enforcement, including the border. You can view the 2011 deaths here and the ...

Our ally Senator Trillanes of the Philippines is facing possible jailing, maybe as soon as tomorrow, as a result of legal maneuvers that strain credulity in both their reasoning and their timing. It's ...

Human Rights Challenge: Judicial and Extrajudicial Drug War Killings, in a Time of Authoritarianism side event at the UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development Church Center of the ...

The number of people in priOf those 1.6 million prisoners, some 330,000 were doing time for drug offenses, including nearly 95,000 doing federal time. There were 15,023 fewer inmates at the end of ...

The end is in sight. After surviving a perilous passage through more than two dozen House and Senate committees, companion marijuana legalization bills, House File100 and Senate File 73 are nearing ...

The ICC is a long and uncertain road. But this is an important first step for stopping the drug war killings, restoring rule of law, and seeking justice. We commend Ms. Bensouda for her leadership.

Legalization got 51%, with 47% saying marijuana should be legalized and controlled like alcohol and another 4% saying marijuana should be legalized -- period. Thirteen percent wanted to keep current ...

The IRS employs Section 280E, a 1982 addition to the tax code that was a response to a drug dealer's successful effort to claim his yacht, weapons purchases, and even illicit bribes as business ...

As promised, Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has scheduled hearings on marijuana policy. "Conflicts between State and Federal Marijuana Laws" will take place September 10 at 10: ...

special to Drug War Chronicle by independent investigative journalist Clarence Walker, freelancewriter82@gmail.com Blocked by a Supreme Court decision from using GPS tracking devices without a warrant ...

Defense attorneys who represented the defendants on appeal argued that "fake drug stings initiated by ATF amount to entrapment because there were no drugs -- and none of the defendants would have ...