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A Utah bill with powerful backers would punish cities who punish medical marijuana patients, a New Hampshire bill to legalize marijuana wins a House floor vote, and more.

An Arkansas medical marijuana expansion initiative is cleared for signature-gathering, Wisconsin GOP lawmakers declare medical marijuana is dead for the session, and more.

Arizona could be the next state to okay interstate commerce in marijuana, the Idaho House approves a fentanyl test strip bill, and more.

Bills addressing therapeutic psilocybin advance in Alaska and Hawaii, Honduran forces destroy more coca plots, and more.

South Dakota lawmakers remove job protections for medical marijuana patients, Virginia lawmakers add them for state workers, and more.

It's all marijuana policy today, from Madison and Phoenix to Bonn and Kyiv.

A Michigan narc developed a taste for the stuff he was supposed to be repressing, a San Diego detention deputy got caught with cocaine in his car in the jail parking lot, and more.

Marijuana-related legislation is popping up at statehouses around the country, North Carolina lawmakers ponder banning "gas station heroin," and more.

Yet more bellicose posturing on drugs from the Grand Old Party.

Battles over what to do with Oregon's drug decriminalization continue, an Arizona bill ostensibly aimed at homelessness would heighten penalties for some drug crimes and create a new offense, and more.

Virginia lawmakers keep moving toward approving a legal marijuana marketplace, Hawaii lawmakers now have a pair of complementary marijuana legalization bills to ponder, and more.

A pair of Tennessee bills would allow voters to weigh in on marijuana policy questions, the European Union gives the go-ahead for a multi-national initiative campaign on medical marijuana and research, and more.

A South Carolina medical marijuana bill is back, an eighth Massachusetts municipality endorses psychedelic reform, and more.

The DEA settles with another opioid distributor, Oklahoma's Republican governor calls for civil asset forfeiture reform, and more.

Fifty members of Congress are worried that the Chinese Communist Party is profiting from illegal weed grows, Pennsylvania's governor calls (again) for marijuana legalization, and more.

The US and China form an official counternarcotics working group to deal with fentanyl and its analogs, a Virginia bill to clear the way for retail marijuana sales advances, and more.

Jim Gierach is a former Cook County, Illinois, prosecutor, occasional failed political candidate, and longtime fighter in the trenches taking on the war on drugs. He makes no bones about what he thinks need to happen.

Rhode Island's first safe injection site is likely to be open by this summer, the FDA renews its warning on "gas station heroin," and more.

Marijuana legalization bills get filed in Hawaii and Kentucky, a Czech economic council calls for a legal, regulated market in marijuana, and more.

Mandatory minimum sentencing remains in fashion in Boise, an Arkansas medical marijuana expansion initiative has been rejected by the state attorney general, and more.