News Brief

It's judges gone wild! Plus sticky-fingered narcs, lying narcs, crooked deputies, and more!

Good Samaritan and Naloxone bills were signed into law in Vermont Wednesday.

The California Senate has approved an industrial hemp bill. Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed the last one in 2011, but this one is written to address the concerns he raised last time around.

Texas Democrats managed to kill a welfare drug testing bill, but were unable to stop an unemployment benefits drug testing bill. It now awaits the signature of Gov. Rick Perry (R).

A Fort Worth man sleeping on his couch ended up being tasered to death by police in a drug raid in which no drugs were found.

A Peruvian government push into a remote area to eradicate coca production there is being met by calls for armed resistance.

France's first supervised drug injection site is coming to Paris and should be open by the fall, local officials said Thursday.

Sequestration is hobbling the military's ability to catch cocaine-smugglers headed for the US, the commander of the Joint Interagency Task Force complained Wednesday.

An amendment to allow industrial hemp planting has been added to the omnibus farm bill. Both Oregon senators and both Kentucky senators support it, and so does Vermont Sen. Pat Leahy.

Medical marijuana has passed the Illinois legislature. Will the governor sign the bill into law? Stay tuned.