News Brief

Three out of four BC residents in a new poll want to legalize marijuana, and there's more support for full-blown legalization than for the half-measure of decriminalization.

The Supreme Court wrestled with two drug dog questions Wednesday: Is a drug dog sniff of a house without a warrant a search under the Fourth Amendment, and are drug dogs reliable?

A young woman reportedly struggling with heroin addiction was shot and killed by undercover police under murky circumstances in West Valley, Utah, Friday afternoon. Her friends and family have questions.

The sweet scent of victory is in the air in Washington state, as the latest polls have I-502 at 55% with only days left.

A California appeals court has made a landmark ruling, the DEA keeps on raiding, and a Montana medical marijuana provider refuses a post-conviction plea bargain, and those are just the top stories.

Cops, including a pair of former police chiefs, have been getting arrested on drug-related charges all over the place this past week and, of course, a jail guard, too.

Ding, dong, the weed pass is dead! In order to form a coalition government with Labor, Dutch conservatives had to give up their restrictive marijuana policy.

Oregon's Measure 80 is in an uphill battle as the campaign enters its final days.

There were more than 1.53 million drug arrests in the US last year, nearly half of them for marijuana. The good news is that the numbers are down slightly from the year before.

In an incident that is raising questions about Texas use of force policies, a state trooper in a helicopter fired on a fleeing vehicle suspected of carrying drugs Thursday. It was not carrying drugs, but undocumented immigrants, two of whom were shot and killed.