State & Local Legislatures

A bill to allow a four-county, eight-year pilot project for industrial hemp production has passed the California legislature and awaits Gov. Jerry Brown's signature.

The new Florida law require welfare applicants to pass a drug test has now been challenged in federal court.

It ain't decriminalization, but Arkansas is moving in the right direction when it comes to pot penalties.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott claimed he could save the state money by making welfare applicants and recipients pass drug tests. He assumed they were a bunch of addicts, but early results are proving him wrong.

Oklahoma has long been notorious for its harsh sentencing policies. Now, a legislator is taking aim at one of the harshest: life without parole for nonviolent drug offenses.

A proposed Alabama law would require Medicaid beneficiaries to take random suspicionless drug tests -- and pay for them -- and would throw them off the rolls for at least a year if they test positive.

We are pleased to announce a major new section of the StoptheDrugWar.org web site -- and we are seeking your support to continue to make it possible.

We are pleased to announce a major new section of the StoptheDrugWar.org web site. And we are seeking your support to continue to make it possible.

If advocates for medical marijuana in New Jersey needed a poster boy, they've found him in John Ray Wilson. The broke, unemployed, MS patient goes on trial next week for growing his own medicine. He's looking at 20 years in prison for something that might not even be a crime next month.