News Brief

A pair of South Florida brothers have become the fourth and fifth people to be killed during drug law enforcement operations in the US this year.

Pot decriminalization is moving in the Hawaii Senate, but not so much in the House.

The Islamic Republic is resorting to the same old hard-line tactics as it confronts a new -- to Iran -- drug threat.

A Wisconsin narc crosses the line, and cops in Houston and Philadelphia pay for getting too greedy.

The Virginia legislature has taken a couple of giant steps toward banning fake pot. Bills have unanimously passed both the House and Senate and now need only to be reconciled before heading to the governor.

This year's sixth drug law enforcement killing took place Friday afternoon in Charleston, West Virginia.

It was a relatively quiet week in Mexico's drug wars -- only a hundred people killed -- but Ciudad Juarez continues to live up to its reputation as one of the world's deadliest cities.

As the US, UK, and Sweden file formal objections to Bolivian efforts to amend the UN 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs to end the proscription on coca leaf chewing, Bolivians take to the streets.

No cops got arrested this week for drug prohibition-related corruption, but a few got convicted, and one got sentenced.

The next round of pot legalization initiatives is getting off the ground in the Pacific Northwest.