News Brief

Colorado is drafting regulations for its growing medical marijuana industry, but some advocates think they're going overboard with the surveillance.

Two mayors were among the dead in Mexico's prohibition-related violence this past week. That makes five this year.

The latest Field poll has Prop 19 leading 49% to 42%. That's a dramatic reversal from July, when it trailed 44% to 48%. Is victory within grasp?

Drug prohibition costs Washington and the states $88 billion a year in law enforcement costs and lost tax revenues, Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron reports.

A massively crooked sheriff, a massively enraged DEA agent, a couple of greedy cops, and a woman police officer married to the wrong guy all made the news this week.

Add another voice to the growing anti-prohibitionist chorus: Spain's former drug czar has come out for drug legalization.

The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act initiative campaign is already gearing up for 2012, but if one legislator has his way, Oregon won't have to wait that long.

Yet another unarmed person shot in a drug raid, this one very, very pregnant. Reports say the injuries were not life-threatening. Let's hope they stay that way.

There's good, but not great, news on the polling front for Prop 19. It has a nine-point lead, but the lead is shrinking and it's still under 50%.

More law enforcement pervs this week, as well as your run of the mill greedy narcs. But prison and jail guards must have been on good behavior.