News Brief

In a through-the-looking-glass move, the DEA has denied a petition to reschedule marijuana, arguing it has no accepted medical use.

The Obama Justice Department's "clarification" of its approach to medical marijuana is causing reactions ranging from dismay and disgust to confusion among advocates. Battle lines are being drawn.

The Mexican government appears to be going after the Zetas, which must please the cartel's rivals.

A Florida 2010 Officer of the Year goes down, so does a Georgia police officer and a Georgia jail guard.

An initiative making adult pot possession the lowest law enforcement priority in Portland, Maine, has handed in more than enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot.

A legislative commission with a broad mandate is set to reexamine Indiana's marijuana laws, and everything is on the table.

The Mississippi Tea Party and some of its affiliates claim to want to impose a welfare drug testing program of a type already found unconstitutional by the federal judiciary.

It's no longer a crime to grow a pot plant on your balcony in Italy, that country's high court has ruled.

An undercover drug operation in suburban Chicago gone "out of control" led to a shoot-out and car chase in a strip mall parking lot and generated the 31st drug law enforcement killing of the year.

A judge's ruling Thursday is a "partial victory" for medical marijuana in Montana, advocates said. But this is by no means the end of the fight.