New Synthetic Drugs

The big news today is yesterday's surprising appeals court ruling allowing the NYPD to continue stop-and-frisk searches, but there's more as well on marijuana reform, drug testing, and a conference in New Zealand.

New Zealand forgot to kneejerk when confronted with new synthetic drugs. Instead of banning them, it has instead moved to regulate them. Other countries are paying attention to the innovative response.

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

"Bath salts" and "fake weed" are now banned on federal law after President Obama signed into law the FDA safety bill to which the bans were attached.

The Senate has passed a bill banning new synthetic drugs. It's already passed the House, and the president is expected to sign it into law shortly.

Sen. Rand Paul is placing a giant stop sign in front of the Senate as it rushes to enact new bans on new drugs.

We go around the world to find the most important international drug policy stories of 2011.

The DEA has responded to the latest synthetic drug panic in the only way it knows how -- by enacting bans. This time it's the "bath salts" drugs under attack.