State & Local Legislatures

A Kansas poll shows that lawmakers are well behind their constituents when it comes to marijuana policy, former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is unrepentant in testimony about death squads and his drug war, and more.

The Arkansas medical marijuana expansion initiative gets thrown off the ballot, Kansas cops are -- gasp! -- not for medical marijuana, and more.

The bloody fight between factions of the Sinaloa Cartel now threatens to bring down the governor of the state, and more.

The Mexican federal government has sent hundreds of troops into the country's lime-producing heartland to help growers fend off drug cartels, and more.

A Minnesota task force recommends decriminalizing psilocybin mushrooms, New Hampshire lawmakers reject therapeutic psychedelics bill, and more.

The death toll keeps rising in Sinaloa Cartel factional fighting, Germany's move to legal marijuana commerce is increasingly in doubt, and more.

New Hampshire lawmakers are already rolling out marijuana reform proposals for next year, peace has come -- at least for now -- to a troubled Colombian coca-producing province, and more.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has filed a marijuana legalization bill in Pennsylvania, the Mexican city of Culiacan is at a standstill amid fears of intra-cartel clashes, and more.

Wisconsin tribes are mobilizing for medical marijuana, the Tennessee Supreme Court rules that even though drug dogs can't distinguish hemp from weed, a sniff can still be probable cause for a search, and more.

The country's first experiment with state-level decriminalization of drug possession is over, but what will change -- other than more drug arrests?