News Brief

A tweaked out former Oklahoma police chief cops a plea, a Mississippi cop admits to running interference for supposed drug traffickers, and a Louisiana narc goes to prison for stealing guns and money.

Boulder County DA Stan Garnett has become the first in Colorado to announce he is no longer prosecuting small-time marijuana possession cases. He said he doubted he could find a jury to convict, anyway.

Latin American leaders are watching closely as US states begin to move toward marijuana legalization. Now, five of them want the OAS and the UN to talk about it, and what it means for the global prohibition regime.

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) called Sunday for the federal government to not interfere in states that have voted to legalize marijuana or medical marijuana.

And so it begins. Prosecutors in two of Washington's most populous counties have said they are dismissing pending marijuana possession cases in the wake of last Tuesday's victory for I-502.

The marijuana legalization votes in Colorado and Washington have Mexican officials wondering just why they're fighting the drug wars.

There was medical marijuana-related election news -- see our Chronicle coverage this week -- but the ongoing battles over medical marijuana also continued.

Week after week, the beat goes on. Here's the latest on the bad cop front.

Here's the lowdown on a mixed bag of election results for drug-related state and local initiatives and public policy questions.

The results were still coming in Tuesday night, but by a couple of hours after the polls had closed, medical marijuana was cruising to victory in Massachusetts. It will become the 18th medical marijuana state.