Chronicle Book Review: The Devil's Drug: The Global Emergence of Crystal Meth by Teun Voeten (2025, Rowman and Littlefield, ...

Drug War Chronicle may have gone on hiatus, but police drug war corruption didn't. Here's a full month's worth to get you restarted. Let's get to it: In West New York, New Jersey, a West New York ...

StoptheDrugWar.org commends the arrest by Philippine authorities this morning of former President Rodrigo Duterte, under an International Criminal Court warrant served by Interpol. During his ...

Dear friends,Last month Phil wrote about the administration designating Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups, and the possibility that could be a prelude to staging military attacks inside Mexico.

President Trump has again called for using the death penalty against low-level drug law violators. During a meeting with governors last week, he pressed them to pass state death penalty laws for drug ...

Another bill aimed at combatting the fentanyl trade advances in the House, the Florida marijuana legalization initiative campaign is getting very spendy, and more. Hemp Companies Sue California over ...

A Virginia prosecutor turns pot peddler, an Illinois cop gets caught with weed, cash, and testosterone, and more. Let's get to it: In Springfield, Illinois, a former Springfield police officer was ...

More Than 200,000 Arrested for Marijuana Last Year, FBI Reports. The latest FBI data shows that at least 200,000 people were arrested on marijuana charges in 2023, with, as usual, simple possession ...

The Illinois Supreme Court rules the odor of burnt weed is not probable cause to search a vehicle, Mexico's president says the US shares the blame for cartel violence in Sinaloa, and more. Illinois ...

The country's first experiment with state-level decriminalization of drug possession is over, but what will change -- other than more drug arrests? The nation's first experiment with state-level ...

North Dakota lawmakers have come up with a revenue and expense estimate if a marijuana legalization initiative passes, a Swedish labor court has ruled for employers in a drug testing case, and more.

The Olympia, WA, city council has voted to decriminalize natural psychedelics, the former head of the British Virgin Islands is headed to a US prison for drug trafficking, and more. Dallas City ...