News Brief

For the third time in recent months, a high profile report has called British drug laws a failure and recommended fundamental reforms.

Ten days into the new year, and we have our first drug war death of 2013. And another death that didn't make the list, but appears drug prohibition-related.

Bolivia has successfully rejoined the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs with the reservation that the treaty's ban on coca leaf will not apply there.

Bolivia's bid to rejoin the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs without accepting the treaty's proscription against coca leaf chewing appears to be set to happen, despite the objections of a handful of Western countries.

The DEA was back at it raiding dispensaries again in Los Angeles Wednesday.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has reiterated his call for marijuana reforms, telling the legislature it needs to pass a bill that decriminalizes public as well as private possession of small amounts of marijuana.

Montana caregivers continue to get sentenced in federal court, an Arizona lawmaker wants a redo on medical marijuana, an Illinois bill is delayed, and the back and forth continues in California.

Texas cop wanted cash to make a pot possession arrest go away, Hawaii cop had his own pot garden, Philly cop was peddling 'roids, and then there's the requisite prison guard.

The drug czar's rhetoric on marijuana legalization is shifting...

Oakland's Harborside medical marijuana dispensary won a victory in federal court Monday, but more battles loom.