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A callous DC judge sentenced wheelchair-bound Jonathan Magbie to 10 days in jail for marijuana possession after he told her he would keep using it to ease his ills. He died before he made it halfway through his sentence, and now, DC and a local hospital will have to pay out the nose for their sins.

Voters in Switzerland Sunday easily approved prescribing heroin to addicts, but rejected marijuana legalization.

The Chicago suburb of Chicago Heights has decriminalized marijuana possession.

You can't sell or grow magic mushrooms in Holland anymore.

Last year, a California appeals court ruled that state and local police are not required to enforce federal drug laws. Now, the US Supreme Court has declined a chance to overturn that ruling.

As his term comes to a close, President George Bush has begun to exercise his pardon power, and a handful of drug offenders have benefited.

The California Supreme Court has made it more difficult for people to qualify as medical marijuana caregivers. That should push patients toward co-op and collective dispensaries -- except in areas where there aren't any.

Dutch pot politics is heating up again, with mayors looking for a way to solve the "backdoor problem" with their coffee shops, and some in the conservative government wanting to see the coffee shops just go away.

British attitudes toward drug users, sellers, and drug reform are heading in the wrong direction, according to a new poll.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles is jerking the drivers' licenses of medical marijuana patients, saying they are "drug abusers." Now, Americans for Safe Access has filed a lawsuit to make them cut it out.