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From its coca-growing fiefdom in the country's southwest, Colombia's second-largest dissident FARC faction says peace talks with the government are stalled, and more.

Wisconsin tribes are mobilizing for medical marijuana, the Tennessee Supreme Court rules that even though drug dogs can't distinguish hemp from weed, a sniff can still be probable cause for a search, and more.

The country's first experiment with state-level decriminalization of drug possession is over, but what will change -- other than more drug arrests?

The Kamala Harris campaign slams Trump for "brazen flip-flopping" on marijuana after he says he'll vote for Florida initiative, a paired set of Nebraska medical marijuana initiatives has qualified for the ballot, and more.

Arkansas campaigners for an initiative to expand the state's medical marijuana program handed in a second batch of signatures in a bid to make the November ballot, and more.

Amidst all the Trump-Harris hoopla, it is easy to forget that the presidential race is not the only thing on the ballot.

The California Senate has passed a pair of bills aimed at opening up markets for small marijuana growers and "cannabis cafes," the drug czar asks Congress to reauthorize his office, and more.

North Dakota lawmakers have come up with a revenue and expense estimate if a marijuana legalization initiative passes, a Swedish labor court has ruled for employers in a drug testing case, and more.

A California appeals court has ruled that marijuana crumbs on the floorboard of a car can be probable cause for a vehicle search, Maine moves forward on clearing the criminal records of marijuana offenders, and more.

Yakima, Washington, has approved a plan to bar drug offenders from certain neighborhoods, a Missouri appeals court upholds expungements for THC -- not just weed -- and more.

A poll of polls finds strong support for marijuana legalization but less so than two years ago, South Dakota medical marijuana operators are complaining about delta-8 and delta-10 THC products, and more.

New York state has now passed half a billion dollars in legal marijuana sales, a factional dispute within the Sinaloa Cartel is heating up and turning deadly, and more.

The Biden administration opposes eliminating marijuana testing for military recruits, the Philippines' leading family political dynasties are fighting like two scorpions in a bottle over drug war accountability, and more.

A Florida state senator plans to file a bill to ban public smoking to prevent legal weed from stinking up the state, and more.

The Chronicle was on vacation last week, but prohibition-related law enforcement corruption took no holiday.

The Olympia, WA, city council has voted to decriminalize natural psychedelics, the former head of the British Virgin Islands is headed to a US prison for drug trafficking, and more.

Long-time congressional drug warrior Chuck Grassley has concerns about marijuana rescheduling, Maine utilities regulators don't bite on an offer from the power company to rat out illegal marijuana grows, and more.

Delaware's legal marijuana market is rolling out a bit ahead of schedule, a Filipino lawmaker's bid to drug test political candidates and officeholders gets criticism, and more.

A central California county is following San Francisco's lead in putting a welfare drug screening measure before voters, Rodrigo Duterte's son wants to drug test Filipino politicians, and more.

Minnesota employers can now add oral fluid drug testing to their panoply of surveillance technologies, the Sentencing Project rips the Biden Administration fentanyl analog and xylazine scheduling proposal, and more.