State & Local Legislatures

Marijuana legalization bills have been filed in Pennsylvania and Texas, and more.

Paraguay's top antidrug agency is going to stop working with the DEA, the Trump transition team wants to meet with tech and social media companies about illicit online drug sales, and more.

A DEA administrative law judge held a largely procedural hearing on marijuana rescheduling Monday, a leading Australian medical body calls for drug decriminalization, and more.

A Vermont legislative advisory working group on therapeutic psychedelics says the state is not ready to go there yet, and more.

A Kansas poll shows that lawmakers are well behind their constituents when it comes to marijuana policy, former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is unrepentant in testimony about death squads and his drug war, and more.

The Arkansas medical marijuana expansion initiative gets thrown off the ballot, Kansas cops are -- gasp! -- not for medical marijuana, and more.

The bloody fight between factions of the Sinaloa Cartel now threatens to bring down the governor of the state, and more.

The Mexican federal government has sent hundreds of troops into the country's lime-producing heartland to help growers fend off drug cartels, and more.

A Minnesota task force recommends decriminalizing psilocybin mushrooms, New Hampshire lawmakers reject therapeutic psychedelics bill, and more.

The death toll keeps rising in Sinaloa Cartel factional fighting, Germany's move to legal marijuana commerce is increasingly in doubt, and more.