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A New Jersey Senate committee Monday approved a medical marijuana bill, sending it to the Senate for a floor vote.

Thanks to some widely publicized busts, despite miniscule use levels, marijuana is sparking concern in Japan. The rhetoric will be familiar, and it provokes the question: Is it time for Nippon NORML?

One of Holland's largest banks is washing its hands of the marijuana business, saying it will close down the accounts of coffee shop owners because that's the responsible thing to do.

A new administration in Washington could mean better relations with Venezuela, including renewed cooperation with the DEA, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez said Sunday. But cooperation is a two-way street...

The ACLU's Northern California affiliate has filed a lawsuit challenging the Shasta County school district's newly-expanded student drug testing policy.

Two cops are headed for prison in New Mexico, and one in California.

The Buckeye State is on the verge of becoming the latest to ban salvia divinorum.

Plans are afoot in the British Isles to push "problem drug users" into treatment and onto the job market, but the government is going to have to do more, a new report says.

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The National Drug Intelligence Center is out with its National Drug Threat Assessment 2009. If the authors would read their own words, they would realize they are making a strong argument for ending drug prohibition.

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El número de víctimas en la guerra de México a causa de la prohibición ha sobrepasado los 5.000 este año, lo que lo convierte en una cifra comparable con la de las mortandades de las guerras en Irak y Afganistán.

El Proyecto Metanfetamina de Montana, con sus imágenes asustadoras explícitas de las consecuencias de consumir la droga “una vez nomás”, ha sido bastante divulgado como labor exitosa de prevención. Momentito, dicen los investigadores que han revisado los resultados.

Los estadounidenses pueden tener la seguridad de que su país mantiene su rol como principal encarcelador del mundo. De acuerdo con un nuevo informe de la Agencia de Estadísticas de la Justicia de EE.UU., se cuenta con un récord histórico de 2.3 millones de personas entre rejas, incluso más de medio millón de infractores de la legislación antidroga.

Después que agentes antidrogas de Atlanta mataron a tiros a Kathryn Johnston, 92, en una redada antidroga que salió mal, funcionarios municipales buscaron apaciguar la indignación y el recelo del público creando una Junta Examinadora Civil para investigar los abusos. Ahora los policías intentan destruirla.

Christine Korbe, un ama de casa de Pensilvania, escuchó lo que creía ser rateros que invadían su casa en la madrugada del 19 de noviembre. Ella abrió fuego desde una escalera y disparó contra un agente del FBI que ejecutaba una orden de arresto por delitos de drogas contra su esposo antes de llamar a emergencias para denunciar una invasión de domicilio. Ahora, en el último ejemplo de redadas antidrogas excesivamente agresivas que salieron mal, el agente del FBI está muerto y Korbe responde ante Justicia por cargos de asesinato.

Policías sodomizadores hideputas de Nueva York son incriminados, un agente de la Secretaría de Sanidad de Nueva York se mete en un lío, así como un agente de la Policía Estatal de Michigan y un agente penitenciario de Tejas, y Rod Blagojevich no es el único corrupto en Chicago.