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A Maine marijuana legalization bill morphed into a bill to allow a popular vote on legalization, but even that couldn't pass the House. If solons don't act, activists are looking at a citizen initiative in 2016.

France has taken a major step toward okaying marijuana-based medicines.

Clarence Walker presents a Southern gothic tale of lust, judicial privilege, retaliation, planted drugs, and crooked cops.

Canadian "Prince of Pot" Marc Emery has been sent to solitary in a US federal prison over what looks like a bogus "investigation" into who (or what) took photos of he and prison bandmates practicing.

A US district court judge has lambasted federal meth sentencing guidelines as harsh, unfair, based on politics instead of science, and "fundamentally flawed." He's not the only one.

Vermont becomes the latest state to decriminalize marijuana possession as Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) signed a decrim bill into law Thursday.

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Good Samaritan and Naloxone bills were signed into law in Vermont Wednesday.

The medical marijuana scene is hectic! Bill passing, raids happening, local officials pondering, and California dispensaries dwindling.

It's judges gone wild! Plus sticky-fingered narcs, lying narcs, crooked deputies, and more!

The war on marijuana is disproportionately waged against Black America, the ACLU finds in a new report based on federal statistics. And it costs a whole lot of money and isn't achieving much.

The California Senate has approved an industrial hemp bill. Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed the last one in 2011, but this one is written to address the concerns he raised last time around.

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A bill that would allow medical marijuana dispensaries to operate in Nevada has passed the legislature and now awaits the governor's signature.

For the fourth time in recent years, the New York Assembly has approved a medical marijuana bill. Each time before, it died in the state Senate. Now, the pressure is on for a different outcome this time around.

Texas Democrats managed to kill a welfare drug testing bill, but were unable to stop an unemployment benefits drug testing bill. It now awaits the signature of Gov. Rick Perry (R).

A Fort Worth man sleeping on his couch ended up being tasered to death by police in a drug raid in which no drugs were found.

A Peruvian government push into a remote area to eradicate coca production there is being met by calls for armed resistance.

France's first supervised drug injection site is coming to Paris and should be open by the fall, local officials said Thursday.