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An Oklahoma prosecutor's scheme to let a private security contractor profit from highway drug stop asset seizures has come unravelled amidst charges of "policing for profit" and "policing for private profit."

We review two books on marijuana -- an academic treatise on marijuana policy in England, and a not-so-academic account of hanging out with pot outlaws in the California hills. Both have their virtues.

Two bills reducing penalties for marijuana offenses have been signed into law in Oregon. They take effect immediately.

A high-speed police chase on I-80 in California's Sierra Nevada mountains Monday left one man dead and the highway strewn with containers and jars of marijuana.

It went down to the wire, but on the last day of the session, the Colorado legislature passed bills to regulate the state's looming legal marijuana market.

Rhode Island is set to see its first dispensary open next, Mendocino County faces down the feds, and more news from around the country.

In the latest example of the drug testing fever sweeping Charleston, a West Virginia delegate has introduced a bill requiring teens to pass not one but three drug tests before being granted full drivers' licenses.

A police drug dog's training or certification records are sufficient indicators of its reliability to establish probable cause for a vehicle search, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

An Arizona appeals court has ruled that even the presence of inactive THC metabolites from as long as a month after toking is sufficient to earn a driving under the influence conviction.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott's drug testing crusade has just cost state taxpayers $190,000 after a federal judge ordered the state to pay attorneys' fees in an employee drug testing lawsuit bought by state employee unions. His other drug testing schemes aren't faring well, either.