Award-winning film maker Rick Ray turns his camera and his sharp eye on the ongoing medical marijuana wars with his 2012 documentary Lynching Charlie Lynch. It's quite good.

A Virginia prison guard smuggles heroin, a Pennsylvania cop steals and uses it, and a New Jersey cop pays off a prostitute with it, and that's just some of the crooked cop action this week.

California will become the 10th state to enact a Good Samaritan law designed to reduce fatal drug overdoses by providing some protections from c

The Oregon marijuana legalization initiative is trailing narrowly in a new poll, with a large number of undecideds.

There is more good polling news from Colorado, but we'd still like to see those numbers for marijuana legalization go higher.

Bolivia and Venezuela told the US to take a hike after President Obama last week certified them as not cooperating in US drug policy objectives.

A Massachusetts crime lab analyst whose zeal to help prosecutors win drug cases has endangered the prosecution of more than 30,000 drug cases after her misconduct in the lab was uncovered.

Doh! The GAO has found that the drug war is driving federal prison overcrowding and that that can have negative consequences.

What role will marijuana play in the presidential election campaign? Look to Colorado.

No DEA raids or federal threat letters to report this week, but the battles over medical marijuana continue on many fronts.

Six weeks out from election day, the Washington marijuana legalization initiative is showing the best polling numbers yet.

A US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals decision saying police do not need a warrant to track people through their cell phones has broad implications.

A Louisiana cop gets strung out in a hurry, a Florida cop is has car problems, a Kentucky state trooper has perv problems, and one member of a r

Now, here's a shocker: All the former heads of the DEA want Attorney General Holder to speak out against the marijuana legalization initiatives.

An Alabama man faced with deputies coming to take him in on drug charges shot himself instead last Sunday night.

Drug reformers won't find the Democratic platform's positions on drug policy very inspiring -- Chronicle

The Colorado marijuana legalization initiatives continues to hold a nine-point lead in polls, but hasn't yet broken 50%.

Is the world's longest-running insurgency coming to an end?

Scott Morgan was featured on the front page of the Huffington Post this week, as part of the HuffPost Live "online Shadow Convention&qu