News Brief

Mid-level Rockefeller drug law prisoners arrested before January 2005 will not be able to seek retroactive sentence cuts, New York's highest court has ruled.

North Carolina has become the latest state to lay the groundwork for industrial hemp farming.

A hi-tech surveillance company's bragging about its secret demonstration during a music festival has drawn criticism for police about the operation.

Jackson, Mississippi, Mayor Frank Melton has been playing drug warrior since day one. Now he finds himself on the other side of the law.

A pair of crooked prison guards and an emerging scandal in Baltimore make the radar this week.

A new report from Scotland Yard finds racial profiling in marijuana enforcement, but the police won't say it's racism.

A proposal to turn Afghanistan's burgeoning opium crop into morphine for the legal medicinal market is gaining more support.

Rhode Island passed its medical marijuana law in January, the program went into effect in April, and now more than 250 patients and caregivers are registered.

In an unusual communique, Colombia's leftist FARC guerrillas called for the global legalization of drugs.

A federal appeals court has thrown out a long crack cocaine sentence, saying the sentencing guidelines that call for tougher sentences for crack than cocaine are no longer mandatory, but only advisory since last year's US Supreme Court ruling in Booker.