News Brief

A dawn drug raid in Pennsylvania ended with police shooting and killing a meth cook in his bedroom after they said he pulled a shotgun on them.

Vermont is set to become the next medical marijuana dispensary state after the legislature gave final approval to a bill that would do just that.

Language that would have created a per se drugged driving law in Colorado was briefly reinserted in a bill Friday, but then the bill was killed Monday.

A Texas DA is on the wrong side of the bars, and so is a Kentucky jail guard. Meanwhile, crooked cops in Philly and California's East Bay have their own problems.

Mexicans marched against drug war mayhem by the tens of thousands over the weekend, but the hit men didn't even break stride.

Perverted probation officers, greedy jail guards, and a perjury plot backfires.

April was the deadliest month so far in Mexico's prohibition-related violence, with authorities reporting 1,402 killings.

Wisconsin marijuana activist, First Amendment supporter, and gadfly to the establishment Ben Masel has died of lung cancer at age 56.

A sweeping review of New Zealand's drug laws is calling for steps toward medical marijuana, decriminalization of drug possession and small-time dealing, and doing away with drug paraphernalia laws. Not too bad.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg started to talk sense about drug legalization, but quickly fumbled. Meanwhile his police officers are arresting thousands of marijuana users -- in a city that has decriminalization!