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Sex and drugs! Sex and drugs! That's our law enforcement corruption theme this week as a gaggle of hormonally-challenged Southern cops let it all hang out above and beyond the call of duty.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard is trying to dumb down the debate over drugs with simplistic sloganeering this week.

Marijuana policy is an issue in some local races this year. This week, it popped up in the Cincinnati mayoral campaign and a New York county district attorney race.

A team of leading researchers on marijuana and impaired driving are recommending that governments not adopt "zero tolerance" drugged driving laws. Such laws ensnare many drivers who are not actually impaired, they found.

The North Wales police chief's call to legalize drugs is stirring controversy, but his own department has now signed on to his stand.

The Marijuana Policy Project is hiring a campaign manager for a 2008 medical marijuana initiative in Michigan, and a full-time fellow in its Membership and Grants & VIP Outreach departments.

With violent crime on the increase in New Orleans, police are busy arresting traffic scofflaws and drug offenders, and prosecutors are spending more than half their time prosecuting drug offenders. A local watchdog commission says that's dumb.

Could San Francisco become the first American city to host a safe injection site? The obstacles are many, but discussions are getting under way.

The 2007 National NORML conference took place last weekend in Los Angeles. Here's a report from the scene.

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