Policing

We're seeing progress on pot policy in gubernatorial candidates in Minnesota and Virginia, Tennessee cops get scorched for asset forfeiture spending abuses, black Philly narcs charge their bosses are racist and corrupt, and more.

In a sign of our strange times, DEA officials are issuing clarifications, criticisms, even leaks about the hardline and distorted approach of the Trump administration.

Global NGOs have written to the Colombian president to express concerns about forced eradication of coca crops, a Nevada judge removes a marijuana sales bottleneck, Massachusetts has a new police force aimed at "extremists and drug traffickers," and more.

The incoming executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance will have plenty of work to do.

Houston police will quit using faulty field drug tests that sent hundreds of innocents to jail, a Colorado appeals court rules a drug dog alert on marijuana in a vehicle is not sufficient grounds for a vehicle search, the Massachusetts high court sides with an employee fired for medical marijuana use, and more.

It's barbaric enough that the benighted state subjects drug suspects to this treatment, but toddlers, too?

What a shocker! Give cops less legal reason to do searches and you get fewer searches.

It took nearly a year for damning video to emerge, but now the heat is on.

The president charges into the fray, but his rhetoric doesn't jibe with facts.

"We have no choice" but to double down on failed drug war and crime-fighting strategies, the president claims.