The Boston Globe on May 16, 2015, reported on the story behind the tragic death of Eric Sinacori. Drug War Facts editor Doug McVay wrote about the case for Ladybud magazine in October 2014.

The Organization of American States has released a new report titled "Report on Drug Use in the Americas, 2015." According to the OAS, it is an "exhaustive analysis of drug use in OAS member states and offers a hemispheric and subregional outlook with respect to the consumption of psychoactive substances in recent years."

The report, by Inter-American Observatory on Drugs, can be downloaded from http://cicad.oas.org/apps/Document.aspx?Id=3208

Jeffrey Toobin has an excellent piece in the May 11, 2015 issue of The New Yorker, titled The Milwaukee Experiment: What can one prosecutor do about the mass incarceration of African-Americans?.

The United Nations General Assembly met recently in New York to hold a day-long set of debates and discussions regarding global drug policy. The UN Press Office reported on May 7:

"Insufficient progress in combating the illegal drug trade called for a new global approach that moved beyond a heavy focus on prohibition and addressed consumption from a holistic public health perspective that placed individual human rights and well-being at its core, speakers said today in a General Assembly high-level debate devoted to the issue."

The nation of Indonesia is one of a handful of countries around the world that still use the death penalty for some drug offenses. Indonesia has been in the spotlight recently because of the planned execution of a group of people, known in the media as the Bali Nine, who were convicted on drug charges.

The news source Malaysian Insider reported on April 28th, 2015, that:

"Indonesia will execute nine drug convicts, including eight foreigners, after midnight on Tuesday (1am Wednesday Malaysian time), the country's attorney-general has confirmed.