News Brief

Iran has already executed more than 125 people for drug trafficking so far this year, and more than 300 await the hangman. It claims that's the only way to stop the flow of drugs destined for Europe.

Police found no drugs in the home of a veteran they shot and killed in a May 5 drug raid in Tucson.

More narcs get rowdy at a narc convention and a pair of cops who couldn't keep their paws off the pills.

No end in sight for the prohibition-related violence plaguing Mexico. The hit men just keep on coming.

Drug testing mania has arrived at the Chicago Housing Authority, which is now proposing to require drug tests of all adult residents, with evictions if they fail.

Under a Florida law signed by Gov. Rick Scott Tuesday, welfare recipients must undergo drug tests. It looks like the ACLU will challenge it in court.

California NORML's Dale Gieringer crunches the numbers and finds a whole lot of medical marijuana patients in the Golden State.

The fruitless and unending effort to stop marijuana from being imported into the US cost the lives of two Border Patrol agents this month.

After more than four year's of Calderon's drug war, there is no end in sight to the violence.

First, the feds scared the governor into vetoing most of a successful dispensary and patient registry bill. Now, time has run out on later efforts to get something out of the legislature in Olympia this year.