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The stuff eases pain and opiate withdrawals and is almost impossible to overdose on. Banning it seems like a step in the wrong direction.

A VA policy barring doctors from recommending -- or even discussing -- medical marijuana with their patients expires this weekend. Congresspersons, doctors, and patients are hoping a change for the better is coming.

A woman recites a prayer during a traffic stop turned drug bust. Is that evidence of drug trafficking? The US 10th Circuit Court of Appeals doesn't think so.

New York's long-delayed medical marijuana program finally rolled out this month -- not with a bang, but with a whimper.

US policies helped push these people out of Central America. Now US policy is pushing them back in.

A potent form of marijuana has arrived on the East Coast, and some media outlets seem to have gotten a contact high.

Drug law enforcement operations killed people at the rate of about one a week in the US in 2015. Here are seven of the most outrageous cases.

This year was a big one for movement on drug policy reform. Here are some of the most important international stories of 2015.

As the year winds down, we look back on the big stories in drug policy, from marijuana reform to climbing fatal overdose levels to sentencing reforms and beyond.

It looks like the vehicle for legalization next year in California has emerged.