News Feature

As always, there was a lot going on in the realm of domestic drug policy, and here are ten of the year's most important stories.

A New York hospital is taken to task for drug testing pregnant women without their consent, then siccing authorities on them for false negatives they should have caught.

A virtual event held last summer sheds light on continuing global drug war abuses -- and some means of fighting back.

With pot shops targeted by criminal gangs, the debate continues over whether the SAFE Banking Act would help, and whether it should be supported before legalization can pass or not.

Democrats are fighting over whether to enact incremental marijuana reforms, or to block them until legalization with social justice can pass.

It's been a year since Oregon voters approved drug decriminalization. How's it working?

Reversing draconian sentencing polices from the 1980s, California has done away with mandatory minimum sentences for some drug offenses.

The House has taken a giant step toward undoing one of the gravest injustices of the war on drugs. Now, the question is whether the Senate can act.

Afghanistan has been by far the world's leading supplier of opium for the past 20 years, but now the Taliban say they are going to stop it. Will they? Can they?

The push to pass a federal marijuana legalization bill is now on in the Senate, although the immediate prospects are cloudy.