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State legislatures are beginning to turn their sights to marijuana legalization, the Trump administration loosens restrictions on prescribing buprenorphine for opioid use disorder, and more.

There's a bad news appeals court ruling out of Philadelphia, but there could still be hope in other parts of the country.

A federal appeals court has put the kibosh on a proposed Philadelphia safer injection site, a Michigan prosecutor says no more magic mushrooms prosecutions, and more.

New Jersey's governor and legislative leaders are at odds over punishing young marijuana offenders, a battle over what legalization will look like is shaping up in New York, and more.

Voter-approved marijuana legalization initiatives are running into problems with elected officials, federal prosecutors say the Honduran president was taking big bribes from drug traffickers, and more.

Which states could legalize marijuana in 2021? Here are some of the brightest prospects.

East Coast governors start the push for marijuana legalization this year, a Tennessee lawmaker files a bill to allow out-of-staters who have medical marijuana cards to possess half an ounce in-state, and more.

New Jersey lawmakers attempt to move forward with implementing voter-approved marijuana legalization, the UNODC warns of innovative meth production practices in Asia, and more.

A Utah bill would once again allow any doctor to recommend medical marijuana, the prosecutor in Michigan's Washtenaw County ends cash bail, and more.

Illinois has expunged nearly half a million marijuana arrests years ahead of schedule, a New Mexico court rules that people under correctional control can use medical marijuana, and more.

Here are the biggest world drug policy stories of 2020.

One never knows when something good is going to happen.

One Maryland lawmaker already has a marijuana legalization bill ready to go, the CDC recommends harm reduction programs use pill-testing (drug checking), and more.

Idaho activists are already eyeing 2022, President Trump and Michigan Governor Whitmer pardon drug offenders, and more.

We continue our series of events at international meetings -- online for the moment -- with another focusing on extrajudicial killings in the drug war and options for the international community to respond.

What a year! But it wasn't a bad one when it comes to drug reform.

Illinois' Cook County prosecutor talks expunging marijuana sales convictions and heroin and cocaine possession convictions, one of the co-petitioners of the Oregon psilocybin therapy initiative has died, and more.

Another Mexican politican gets gunned down, the Scottish public health minister has been fired over record overdose deaths, and more.

The DEA has published a rule that will finally allow for an end to the government monopoly on marijuana grown for research purposes, the Mexican congress slaps back at the US, limiting the activities of DEA agents inside the country, and more.