News Brief

With a big push from reform organizations, the Maryland legislature has passed a measure that will help more than 1,000 drug offenders have a chance to get out early.

The underground radio Drug Truth Network is now doing video, using the popular service YouTube.

Tensions are rising in Peru's Upper Huallaga Valley coca fields, as government eradicators come under attack, growers go on strike, and the García government vows to take a hard line.

Last week, the Middlebury, Vermont, town council blindsided the Emporium Tobacco and Gift Shop with a sudden order to cease and desist from selling salvia divinorum. Now, the shop owner is fighting back.

The British Medical Association Junior Members Forum has called for cannabis-based medicines to be prescribed by the National Health Service.

More cops arrested, a dispatcher, too, and yet another prison guard goes to prison.

Sometimes being a dictatorship has its advantages, at least if you work for the police. China has created a data bank of drug users with more than three-quarters of a million names.

The Minnesota medical marijuana bill continues to move through the legislature.

A bill that would make Rhode Island's medical marijuana permanent is headed for House and Senate floor votes. Unless it passes, the program will end June 30.

Anti-globalization activist and French presidential candidate José Bové is calling for the legalization of marijuana.