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The United Kingdom's top cannabis researcher has come out in support of legalizing the weed. Will the government start listening?

One narcotics supervisor sexually assaults a female snitch, another makes off with the drug buy money. A pair of jail guards go down after getting caught having sex in a car in a parking lot. And that's just for starters.

With disagreement over strategy from some sectors of the Washington state reform community, Sensible Washington failed to attract the support needed to get its pot legalization initiative on the ballot this year. Now they're aiming for November 2011.

Possessing up to four grams of crack or 14 grams of powder cocaine is just a misdemeanor in Maine, and the Portland police chief wants to change that.

If anyone needs a reason to consider voting "yes" on California's Proposition 19, we've got 550,000 of them right here.

Why do I feel like I just keep writing the same stories of law enforcement venality over and over again? More crooked jail guards, more sticky-fingered cops, more cops on the take, and another pervert power-tripper cop.

The numbe of Israeli medical marijuana patients is set to expand dramatically after the Health Ministry allowed the number of doctors allowed to prescribe it from one to six.

California arrested more than 60,000 pot smokers last year, but that's just the tip of the iceberg on the state's drug arrests.

To gently chide Mexico for continuing human rights violations by its military, the US will withold $26 million that Mexico won't see until next year anyway. To make up for that, the US is releasing $36 million it withheld last year.

He led the effort to imprison Prince of Pot Marc Emery, but now former federal prosecutor John McVay has emerged from the dark side.