News Brief

A bill that would create medical marijuana dispensaries in Hawaii won a key Senate committee vote Thursday.

The fake pot menace has been eliminated from Nebraska, or at least, driven underground.

Because the update was late last week, it's two weeks worth of Mexican mayhem this week. And yet another grim landmark as the death toll passes 36,000.

As the Montana Senate prepares to take up a medical marijuana repeal bill, a new poll suggests that public support for repeal is minimal.

Washington state's largest daily newspaper and Seattle's city attorney have both come out in support of marijuana legalization.

The drug war is killing Americans at a rate of more than one a week. The year's 10th killing happened Tuesday in Massachusetts.

A US Deputy Marshal and an alleged crack dealer became the eighth and ninth people to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year.

The US Surgeon General has given the thumbs up to needle exchanges. That should open up some grant opportunities.

A California dope squad leader goes bad, a Rhode Island narc goes to prison, and, of course, there are a couple of jail guards in trouble.

Chaikh El-Khayari advocated for the legalization of marijuana production for hemp and medical marijuana, but it was his accusations of high-level links to the hash trade that got him thrown in jail.