November 2024
DULF founders file charter challenge
B.C. Conservatives drug policy plan shows leader backpedalling
Drug users collateral damage in B.C. election campaigning
Alberta’s hasty case against harm reduction
Former B.C. chief coroner endorses B.C. Green Party’s drug policy
Private beliefs vs. public posturing: Nixon knew cannabis scheduling was misguided
Political support for involuntary treatment rises in British Columbia
Supervised inhalation site launches in Vancouver
Mothers giving birth collateral damage in drug-averse sociopolitical climate
Marcos Jr continues Murder Campaign
Duterte summoned by legislative committee in extrajudicial killings investigation
Watermethlons: where international produce and drug trades meet
Canada’s domestic fentanyl LABS
Soundcloud and X used as opioid distribution tools
LEAKED DEA CHATS REVEAL CRIME, CORRPUTION, RAPE
October 2024
Prince George RCMP commander admits they ignored effects of gang conflicts
Investigations Into Police Killings Abandoned
Oregon’s decriminalization 180
Military encounters resistance in Sinaloa
Correctional officer exploits drug prohibition for personal gain
September 2024
Honduras police chief gets 19 years for cocaine distribution
Ontario disregards reports it commissioned and backtracks on safe consumption sites
BC regional health authority curtails harm reduction support
SOLDIERS KILLED BY BOMBS FROM cartel DRONES
International Criminal Court Investigating Duterte
HUNDREDS OF MEXICANS FLEE INTO GUATEMALA TO ESCAPE DRUG WAR VIOLENCE
US CAPTURE OF drug lord ‘El Mayo’ VIOLATED MEXICAN LAW
Electoral politics hinder sensible drug policy in Canada
Vancouver’s fraught journey toward a safe drug supply
Florida police union prez accused of helping drug suspects
NOVEMBER 2021
International Aid Funds Used for “Narcotics Control”
UN Human Rights Office Endorses End of Drug War
Cannabis Possession Arrests in United States Remained Disproportionately High in 2022
Sinaloa Cartel Condemns Fentanyl Trade
Columbian President says end the drug war!
Report: BC’s drug-gang cops are ineffective failure
How US drug war subverted Bolivia’s democracy
Of war and drugs on Rememberance Day
Opium remains ‘lifeline’ for Afghanis
Counterfeit prescription pills with fentanyl becoming more common
• Fentanyl spreading through entire illicit drug supply
Drug-checking service celebrates 20,000th sample analyzed
TikTok videos humanize Colombian cocaine workers
Mexican army, cartels: ‘non aggression pact’
Opinion:War on drugs has it all wrong
NYT: Legalize or decriminalize?
Panama drug war gets more violent and vicious
Drone captured at Arizona border with pounds of heroin
El Chapo’s brother indicted in drug crimes
Organized crime is winning the drug war
Netflix: Griselda the ‘Cocaine Queen’
Drug cartel commandos storm Cancun beach, gun down rivals, terrify tourists
US offering $5 Million for info on El Chapo linked drug lords
Counterpunch: The Ultimate Drug War Crackdown
Narcos Mexico: Brutal tales of drug war, killer clown, murdered kids
Dozen drug gangs fighting for control of Caribbean
Court overturns search of man for ‘walking too fast’
Vice: Opioids the cure to depression?
OCTOBER 2021
Philippines: Hundreds of drug suspects murdered by police
Can Taliban control the opium trade?
Colombia: Coca growers release 180 hostage soldiers
Cocaine Bear movie ‘insane’ true story
Top Colombian ‘drug lord’ arrested: won’t change anything
‘Why is drug war a failure?’ Senators ask State Department
Philippines ‘reviewing’ over 6000 drug war killings by police
Rhode Island: First state to launch safe-injection sites
Peru: Coca farmers block road to stop eradication
Senior UK cop: ‘It’s time to end the war on drugs’
UK govt ignored their own experts on drug policy and decrim
Cartel violence creates Mexican ghost towns
Aswang: Doc on Philippine drug war massacres wins award
UK: 1500 drug arrests in week-long crackdown
Baltimore study: No increase in crime or complaints after drug decrim
Former Mexican police commander pleads guilty to drug trafficking
Lawsuit: New Albany cop planted drugs
America steps up war on Colombian coca
• Spraying toxic glyphosate from airplanes
Wisconsin incarcerates 1 of 36 of black residents
Mexican town ‘captives of Coca-Cola’
The myth of poisoned or drugged Halloween candy
The myth of the 1990s ‘crack baby’
Drug cartel sends severed head to Tijuana police chief
Cartel shoots at Texas National Guard across border
UN Human Rights Report on drug policy and prisons: Urgent need for reform
Rebranding the US-Mexico drug war
Philadelphia Inquirer: Legalize heroin to save lives
Tobacco smoking dates back 12,300 years — 9000 years earlier than thought
Conservative Christian: End the war on drugs
Trend: Murder charges for dealers whose clients die
Palm Springs • Florida • Napa • Las Vegas • Ontario •
Death penalty for drug offenses is on the rise.
Philippine moms taking Duterte’s deadly drug war to court.
Anti-govt coca farmers regain control of Bolivia market
Visiting Canada’s first “cocaine tea” cafe
US working on global kratom ban
Caffeine and capitalism – a symbiotic relationship
Dopesick: Michael Keaton TV drama on Perdue and OxyContin
Vancouver approves concept of heroin and cocaine ‘compassion club’
Grandma’s cocaine-snorting kit
New York decrims possession and sale of needles
California to protect needle exchanges from enviro-based lawsuits
London Police sorry for saying serial killer’s victims were overdose deaths
Drug overdose dead increasing source of donated organs
Reason: George Floyd pardon shows drug war gives cops license to lie
Barbara Eden speaks on son’s overdose death
Overdose deaths 4x more likely to occur within 2 days of leaving hospital
New York: No political will for injection sites
Toronto asks feds to decriminalize all drug possession
Vaping is nicotine harm reduction
Napa County: Dealers could face murder charges for client overdoses
Philippines: mass killings in name of drug war
• International Criminal Court to investigate Pres Duterte
• “Kill them” – timeline of murders
• Murder as state policy: widepsread, systematic
• Over 10,000 killed by police
• Over 150 police investigated for dozens of murders
Ohio Supreme Court: Positive cocaine test isn’t grounds for possession charge
Honduras burns 3.3 tons of cocaine
Bolivian coca leaf growers storm coca market in La Paz
SEPTEMBER 2021
DEA’s prescribing crackdown leading to surge of counterfeit pills
Canada: 2 years prison for smuggling poppy heads for tea
Colombia war on coca: Aerial fumigation contaminates water, kills wildlife: “misguided plan”
Vice Video: Activists giving away free heroin and cocaine
California poised to end mandatory minimums for drugs
Scotland decriminalized possession of Schedule A drugs
US: Congress likely to pass EQUAL Act, ending disparity of crack vs cocaine sentencing
Brookings: Biden must end drug war
Mother Jones: The Drug War’s deepest failure
Civil Asset Forfeiture
Feature: Government seizes billions in cash from air travelers without any criminal charges
• Nevada: Civil asset forfeiture ‘horror story’
• Townhall: Civil asset forfeiture is ‘government thuggery’
Chicago-Sun Times: Don’t sue gangs, legalize drugs instead
Xylazine showing up more in illicit opioid supply and overdoses
Mexico: Indigenous Nahua defend against drug cartel attack
LA Tmes: Trump blocked overdose prevention sites, Biden must make change
International Criminal Court to investigate Philippine drug war: thousands of murders by police
Philippine Drug War Death Squads
• New film exposes horrors of the Philippines’ bloody war on drug users
• International Criminal Court asked to investigate, prosecute President Duterte
• 32 killed in one day – 7000 killed since last summer
• Journal of Genocide Research: Duterte’s deadly ‘drug war’ is a genocide
• Purdue Pharma bankruptcy: $7m bonuses for execs
• Now what happens to OxyContin?
Most possession charges dropped in Ontario
Addiction drs in “massive conflict of interest”
US: drug conviction means lifetime ban on federal food and cash assistance
Drug Kingpin’s daughter launches “El Chapo Mexican Lager”
New book: Undoing Drugs, The Untold Story of Harm Reduction
Study: Mandatory drug treatment does more harm than good.
Chicago Sun-Times: End America’s longest war
US puts $5M bounty on alleged Chinese fentanyl seller.
• China urges US to scrap warrant, provide evidence
• China says American’s fentanyl crisis cause is within US
Trump moved Fentanyl to Schedule I. Biden wants to make it permanent, but without mandatory minimums
Forbes: Can Mexico’s President end their drug war?
Montenegro: One ton of cocaine in bananas
Months before 9/11, Bush declared Taliban ally in drug war, gave them $43M
Afghanistan meth about to flood Europe?
Feds Unlocking Phones for Drug War, not Terrorism
Naval drug war keeps getting bigger
Drug gangs battling for control of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
The Nation: We Should Hand Out Free Heroin to Drug Users
Why all drugs should be decriminalised in the Netherlands
California May Start Paying Drug Users to Stay Clean
South America: Aircrafts stolen for drug smuggling
Bolivia: Legal coca farmers battle police
Artist selling Cocaine NFT’s gets Instagram ban threat
Nicotine flavor bans causing harm
Hipsters smoking toad venom in Mexico
Lorde: Albums based on MDMA, alcohol, cannabis
UK may ban Nitrous Oxide: critics warn against prohibition
California vape bans driving teen smoking?
“Saint Coca” helps Colombian communities thrive
Canada’s Conservatives pledge to end “popper” crackdown, which began under Cons in 2013.
Thailand legalizes kratom
• Drops thousands of cases
• 12,000 kratom prisoners to be freed
• First kratom extraction plant
US pushing for kratom ban
• Thailand allowing Kratom while US wants ban
• Activists send tens of thousands of comments opposing ban
• US pressuring other countries to ban kratom
Illegality of fentanyl test strips “obscene”
Nevada legalizes fentanyl test strips
BC: Naloxone shortage, supply ‘depleted’
Fentanyl test strips
• Scranton wants to decriminalize fentanyl test strips
• Editorial: PA should legalize fentanyl tests
• Virginia: Free fentanyl test strips for released prisoners
• BC: Free test strips at University
Opioid prescriptions fell – overdose deaths climbed
Berks County, PA: 100 overdoses in 4 days
PBS: Inside Mexico’s low-tech fentanyl cartels
Canada: drug poison death every 49 minutes
Michael K Williams dead: heroin/.fentanyl overdose?
California users switching from injecting heroin to smoking fentanyl
Record drug deaths everywhere
• Minneapolis • Vigo County • New Jersey • New Haven • Greensboro • Florida • Texas • North Dakota • Wisconsin • Rhode Island • Colorado • Australia • London • Wales • Canada
Glasgow: Europe’s drug-death capital
Canadian drug user group sues government to force end of criminalization
Senior Irish cop under arrest, 3 officers homes raided: accused of helping drug gangs
Mexican ex-security chief accused of stealing $250 million, taking huge bribes from Sinaloa cartel
Spain: City’s entire drug squad shut down for corruption and trafficking, many officers arrested
South Africa: Cop guilty of extorting drug dealer
California: Cop pleads guilty to escorting cannabis shipments
Arizona: FBI investigates cop for helping traffickers
Puerto Rico: Cops sell weapons to drug dealers, protect shipments
Nairobi: Drug cops terror, torture, extortion
Thailand: Cops torture, murder, drugs scandal
• Manhunt for police colonel who ordered torture, murder during attempted drug dealer shakedown
• Six cops charged – corrupt Chief owns 29 luxury cars
• Police torture and murder of drug dealers commonplace
Baton Rouge: Entire drug squad disbanded for corruption
Miami: “Bad Boy” cops going to prison for protecting cocaine shipment
Fiji: Cops in court for planting drugs, stealing money