News Brief

Here's yet another public opinion poll showing a rising trend-line for freeing the weed.

Being the subject of a drug search warrant proved fatal for a young Massachusetts man last Friday.

Scotland's Liberal Democrats want to reduce the harm to users and society alike by making heroin available through prescription.

The disaster that is Mexico's drug war has moved a Council on Foreign Relations scholar to call for the US to rethink its failed drug policies.

Washington could be the next medical marijuana state to allow dispensaries after a bill to do so passed the state Senate. It now goes to the House.

The year's second death during a drug law enforcement operation occurred Tuesday in Corpus Christi. Police said it was a suicide, but some local observers are assuming the worst.

Michigan gives us two spectacularly egregious cases of corrupt policing, one of which included prosecutors and a judge -- and we throw in the obligatory greedy jail guards.

A take-down of alleged crack dealers in a Lackawanna, New York, gas station parking lot has yielded the year's 11th drug war fatality.

Copenhagen is set to become the next European city with a safe injection site -- except the police don't want anyone to actually inject drugs there. A confrontation looms.

Synthetic marijuana has been banned by the DEA in an emergency action. This time, they mean it.