A former Pennsylvania prosecutor gets caught peddling pot, and a TSA agent and an Alabama cop head to prison for taking bribes from drug dealers.

The Arkansas medical marijuana initiative is ready for a final push toward victory as the clock ticks down toward Election Day. It could use some money for some late ads, though.

The Massachusetts drug lab testing scandal continues to reverberate.

Canada has responded to the emergence of a new synthetic stimulant drug the old-fashioned way: by banning it.

The association representing British Columbia municipal governments has endorsed a resolution calling for marijuana decriminalization.

Coca production is up in Peru for the sixth year in a row, responding to thriving demand from Brazil and Europe. Colombia is barely holding on to first place now.

A last ditch effort to block an Arkansas medical marijuana initiative from appearing on the November has failed.

Washington state's I-502 marijuana legalization is well-placed to emerge victorious on November 6, but it's going to be close.

We're a little more than a month from election day.

The UN General Assembly heard a trio of Latin American leaders call for increased debate on alternatives to the war on drugs Wednesday, including hint of legalization talk.

The DEA strikes again in Los Angeles, and the feds are moving to eliminate dispensaries in downtown LA. But the pushback against the crackdown continues.

It's been a fairly quite week on the corrupt cop front, but we've still got some Missouri jail guards in trouble, a Houston cop accused of helping to peddle Ecstasy, and a Baltimore cop who

A Montana initiative that would endorse the legislature's gutting of the state's voter-approved 2004 medical marijuana law is leading in polls, but doesn't have 50%.

Another small-time drug busts ends in death as a Baltimore man dies after swallowing drugs as police moved in to arrest him.

Colombia's capital may be about to open drug consumption rooms for addicts, who will get their drugs by prescription.

Dana Larsen has a plan to decriminalize marijuana possession in British Columbia. It will take up to two years.

The upper and lower chambers of the Swiss parliament have agreed on a marijuana decriminalization bill.

Three marijuana legalization initiatives, two medical marijuana initiatives, and one sentencing reform initiative are on state ballots this year.

Last issue, we reported that the DEA had taken the week off. Well, they're back, and so is the push-back.

Colorado's Amendment 64 campaign is leading by about 10 points in the polls, but not complacent as the clock ticks down toward November 6.