News Brief

Some Utah narcs are having a spotlight shone on them, an NYPD cop goes down for robbing drug dealers, and a Florida deputy gets caught buying pain pills and stealing them from his aunt.

Marijuana legalization bills have been introduced in eight states this year. One is actually moving in Oregon.

First marijuana legalization and now decriminalization. Marijuana law reform (except for medical marijuana) is dead this year in Hawaii, and probably next year, too.

For the first time in 40 years, the Pew poll finds majority support for marijuana legalization. That's in line with other recent polls showing support for marijuana legalization at the tipping point.

Medical marijuana bills were laid to rest in two states this week, changes in the medical marijuana law went into effect in another, and Massachusetts now appears set to open dispensaries by year's end. There's more news, too.

Medical marijuana is now on sale in pharmacies in the Czech Republic.

A Texas cop gets caught pilfering pain pills, a Georgia sheriff's captain gets nailed for trying to frame a woman, and a Louisiana police chief is accused of having sticky fingers.

Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel dominates the meth trade and is getting rich doing so, a new report finds.

Afghan farmers are cultivating more opium than last year, officials said Monday.

It's no April Fools' Day joke -- Rhode Island has decriminalized marijuana.