Mexican Drug War

Lawmakers in Virginia are working toward a compromise on getting legal retail sales going, prohibition-related violence flares in Mexico's Guerrero state, and more.

Yet more bellicose posturing on drugs from the Grand Old Party.

A restrictive South Dakota medical marijuana bill is killed, a Florida Senate resolution designating Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations advances, and more.

Ireland's first safe injection site will open in September, New York regulators release draft rules for adult use home grows, and more.

The Justice Department seeks to throw out a challenge to federal marijuana prohibition, MexicO wants to know where military grade weaponry reaching drug cartels is coming from, and more.

The Florida legislature meddles with foreign policy, Wisconsin Republicans remain in search of agreement on advancing medical marijuana, and more.

Presumed drug gangs kill a dozen people at a Christmas party in Mexico, Peruvian coca farmers are blamed for killing an indigenous leader, and more.

A pair of Missouri lawmakers are pushing a psilocybin therapy bill for next session, a clash between a drug gang and villagers in Mexico leaves 14 dead, and more.

The South African National Assembly has approved a marijuana legalization bill, a bipartisan federal bill to disarm cartels by blocking the flow of American guns south is filed, and more.

Florida Supreme Court justices were skeptical of the state's effort to keep a marijuana legalization initiative off the ballot, a Canadian Senate committee calls for an immediate psychedelic research program for veterans, and more.