The FBI's annual Uniform Crime Report finds that drug arrests are stabilizing, but at near record levels. More than 1.6 million people got busted for drugs last year, more than half of them for pot.

Britain's Liberal Democrats, junior partners in a coalition government with the Tories, have passed a resolution calling for decriminalization of drug possession, regulated marijuana sales, and more.

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A Missouri technical college's plan to force students to take suspicionless drug tests is on hold after the ACLU of Eastern Missouri filed suit and won a temporary restraining order.

Caught in a glaring lie about drug use among South Carolina job seekers, Gov. Nikki Haley is forced to concede she was full of it.

Washington's I-502 legalization initiative has picked up the support of the state's Democratic Party.

Recent Washington state marijuana legalization polls have produced varying results. What does that mean for I-502?

Massachusetts has reversed a thousand drug overdoses since it began its Narcan pilot program in 2007.

More cartel drug busts, more dead bodies, no apparent impact on the flow of drugs north and cash south.

Two more drug war deaths this week, and these ones were bizarre.

An Oklahoma police chief gets caught with meth and weed, a New Mexico cop goes to prison for blowing up an FBI investigation, and a Colorado deputy is being looked at for some missing evidence money.

Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.

The Colorado Alliance for Marijuana Reform has an immediate opening for an Executive Director in its Denver office. This is a new position, designed to take advantage of current opportunities to promote marijuana policy reform in Colorado via ballot measures, legislative advocacy, and public education.