News Brief

Delaware's governor has pulled the plug on the state's medical marijuana dispensary program in the face of threats from the US Attorney.

Bills to drug test welfare and other public benefits recipients were blocked in South Dakota and Virginia after state officials warned against such legislation.

The Mexican army has made a massive methamphetamine bust, seizing 15 tons of pure tweak with a US street value of $4 billion.

With decriminalization bills pending in Rhode Island, a new poll shows strong support for decrim and even majority support for legalization.

A California medical marijuana regulation initiative is polling right on the cusp of where potential major donors start to feel comfortable.

A life sentence for growing a pot plant!? It just happened to a Malaysian couple, but, hey, at least the judge suspended the caning.

Two of our four bad apples this week come from the Big Apple, one for planting drugs and one for transporting them. Of the other two, one picked the wrong friends and the other picked the wrong wife.

A desert drug raid in California has resulted in the year's seventh drug war killing, and it's only the beginning of February.

An NYPD narc shot and killed a teenager in his own home as he tried to flush a small amount of marijuana down a toilet. The local community was not happy.

Bills that would require state legislators to undergo drug tests have been filed in Missouri and Tennessee. They're an unsurprising extension of the drug testing mania that has gripped statehouses, but likely unconstitutional.