Drug War Chronicle

California voters may not want to legalize marijuana, but they sure want to tax it. A number of cities approved tax measures, and two rejected dispensary bans.

Marijuana reform activists in Massachusetts are still batting 100% in their decade-long campaign of marijuana reform non-binding ballot questions.

Cops shouldn't mess with meth, narcs shouldn't deal dope, and prison guards shouldn't smuggle contraband. We already knew that, but some law enforcement officers are finding out the hard way.

Prop 19 may have been defeated, but marijuana legalization is not going away, proponents said Wednesday.

It wasn't all bad news Tuesday. One of the comforting items came from the cities of Madison and River Falls, Wisconsin, where voters sent a signal to lawmakers that medical marijuana is a winning issue.

Two statewide medical marijuana initiatives lost on Tuesday. A third is trailing very slightly, but with uncounted mail-in ballots making it still too close to call.

California's Proposition 19 has gone down to defeat, but organizers put the best face on it and vowed to move forward.

The controversial Professor David Nutt is at it again, this time with a study ranking drugs, legal and illegal, by the harm they cause users and society. There are some surprises there.

New federal sentencing guidelines reducing, but not eliminating, the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses are now in effect.

Indigenous tradition runs afoul of US drug laws... and now, a respected Colombian shaman is behind bars in Houston, charged as a drug criminal.