News Brief

California's Proposition 19 has gone down to defeat, but organizers put the best face on it and vowed to move forward.

California voters may not want to legalize marijuana, but they sure want to tax it. A number of cities approved tax measures, and two rejected dispensary bans.

Marijuana reform activists in Massachusetts are still batting 100% in their decade-long campaign of marijuana reform non-binding ballot questions.

It wasn't all bad news Tuesday. One of the comforting items came from the cities of Madison and River Falls, Wisconsin, where voters sent a signal to lawmakers that medical marijuana is a winning issue.

Progressive Insurance magnate Peter Lewis has opened his checkbook for Proposition 19, making the latest in a series of last-minute major donations to help get-out-the-vote efforts.

In the latest round of the battle of the California pot polls, Prop 19 comes out well ahead.

As election day draws near, California's marijuana legalization initiative appears to be picking up voter support. It's now at 52% in one poll.

New federal sentencing guidelines reducing, but not eliminating, the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses are now in effect.

Indigenous tradition runs afoul of US drug laws... and now, a respected Colombian shaman is behind bars in Houston, charged as a drug criminal.

Iowa's Board of Pharmacy has recognized that marijuana has medicinal uses. Now maybe the state legislature will act. Or not.