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Dr. Marion "Mollie" Fry and her partner, Dale Schafer, are about to go to federal prison for five years for medical marijuana.

New new reports take a hard look at drug courts and suggest more effective alternatives.

A bill moving in Colorado would set threshold THC blood levels to determine whether drivers are impaired. The question is would exceeding that level cause an automatic conviction or just more evidence to convict? Right now, the bill does both.

Faced with a staggering corrections budget, Kentucky has become the latest state to enact substantive sentencing reforms.

It's been more than a year since medical marijuana became the law of the land in New Jersey, but the fight goes on.

Marijuana decriminalization has become a hot topic in state legislatures, and legalization is rearing its head, too.

While the US wallows in a sea of pain pills, much of the rest of the world goes without, the International Narcotics Control Board reported Wednesday. Not to be too liberal, the INCB is also worried about the rise of designer drugs.

The Thai government has officially embraced harm reduction, but the Interior Ministry doesn't seem to have gotten the memo. Mass roundups of suspected drug users are once again underway.

California's Prop 36 requires treatment not jail for first- and second-time drug possessors, but the money for treatment has dried up. That's okay if you didn't really need treatment, not so good if you could have benefited from it.

The Obama administration has submitted its 2012 federal drug control budget proposal. There's not much new there, and little evidence the administration is putting its money where its mouth is.