Feds Squeeze Banks in Bid to Freeze Out Medical Marijuana [FEATURE]
Special to the Chronicle by Clarence Walker[Editor's Note: Houston-based crime and criminal justice journalist Clarence Walker is an occasional contributor to the Chronicle. He can be reached at...
View ArticleNY Times: DEA Launders Mexico Drug Cartel Profits
American undercover agents, primarily with the DEA, have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds from Mexican drug trafficking organizations as part of their investigations into how...
View ArticleMexico Drug War Update
by Bernd Debusmann Jr. [image:1 align:left]Mexican drug trafficking organizations make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the prohibitionist drug...
View ArticleUS-Mexican Caravan for (Drug War) Peace Gets Underway [FEATURE]
Last Sunday, dozens of Mexican activists led by poet Javier Sicilia crossed into the US at San Diego to begin a weeks-long Caravan for Peace and Justice that will take them more than 6,000 miles...
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 ArticleHSBC Bank Admits Cartel Money Laundering
The London-based HSBC Group, Europe's largest banking entity, has agreed to forfeit $1.256 billion and pay an additional $600 million-plus in fines for laundering money for Mexican drug cartels and...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- December 4, 2013
Some Denver city council members don't know when to give it a rest, some California US reps want stiffer penalties for pot grows on public lands, the Big Dog speaks on drug policy, Ecstasy may be on...
View ArticleChronicle AM: SWAT Teams in the News, Santa Fe Decrim Init, Barcelona...
SWAT teams are in the news, the RAVE Act gets critiqued as counterproductive, there will be no medical marijuana initiative in Oklahoma, but it looks like there will be a decriminalization initiative...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Mexican Coca, Saudis Behead Another Trafficker, Feds Raid LA...
A federal CBD medical marijuana bill picks up more sponsors, so does a federal asset forfeiture reform bill, Georgia advocates want whole whole plant medical marijuana, Mexico's first coca patch is...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Bernie Sanders Marijuana Petition, Dutch Bank Gets Huge Money...
A Bernie Sanders petition calls for marijuana legalization and an end to the drug war, a Dutch bank gets hit with a massive fine for cartel money laundering, New York's governor takes flak from drug...
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