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The cops have a nifty little tech toy that can track your phone to within a few feet. Should they need a search warrant first?

Bloody drug crackdowns, a drug-related AIDS epidemic given short shrift, marijuana legalization advances, and the UNGASS. Here's the good, bad, and the ugly in global drug policy for 2016.

California's legal marijuana market is the biggest in the country, but that doesn't come close to accounting for all the weed it produces.

Ever since we began counting six years ago, the annual drug war death toll has held fairly steady. It was 49 last year.

It was a big year in US domestic drug policy reform, and here are the 10 biggest stories.

Election Day saw the number of states with marijuana legalization double, and the number of people living in legalization states quadruple. But there won't be more ballot initiatives until 2018 at the earliest. Reformers are eyeing five states where legalizing marijuana through the legislature may be possible.

Donald Trump's older brother, Freddy Jr., died young from booze. Will that make Trump more or less sympathetic to progressive drug policies?

Marijuana legalization won in California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada. Medical marijuana won in Arkansas, Florida, Montana, and North Dakota.

Trump's drug policy consists mainly of "build the wall," while Clinton offers a detailed proposal and a budget.

New research suggests that, for an aging, aching population, medical marijuana can reduce dependency on opiates while maintaining quality of life.