Dozens of advocacy groups urge the White House to end federal pot prohibition, Brazil's new president reinstalls civil society representatives on the national drug policy council, and more. [image:1 ...

A drug policy think tank releases a "toolkit" for avoiding a corporate takeover of the marijuana industry, the Texas House approves a fentanyl test strip legalization bill, and more. [image:1 ...

In what could be an important intervention in the debates over medical marijuana and pot legalization, the first study to examine the relationship between medical marijuana and traffic deaths found ...

A Vancouver man's experiment with "safe supply" drug sales is quickly ended by police, a Pennsylvania marijuana legalization bill is filed, and more. An Ohio signature-gathering campaign to put ...

More than 60 years after coca and cocaine were banned internationally under the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, and more than a half-century since the commencement of the modern US ...

Governors in two states Monday signed into law bills that would ease injection drug users' access to clean needles -- in one case overriding a veto. Local police in a particularly tolerant part of ...

The Mississippi Tea Party and some of its affiliates claim to want to impose a welfare drug testing program of a type already found unconstitutional by the federal judiciary. It's no longer a crime to ...

Iran continues to execute drug offenders at a torrid pace. Around 500 went to the gallows in 2011, hundreds more last year, and 24 more so far this year. proconlogo_11.gif "Marinol v. Medical ...

A petition calling on President Obama to fire the DEA head keeps getting more signatures, the Florida medical marijuana initiative is halfway home on signature gathering, a New Jersey school becomes ...

It never ends, does it? Another week, another set of crooked cops. At least this week, the jail and prison guards managed to stay out of the news. From sea to shining sea, people took to the streets ...

Can the Border Patrol fire an agent for saying he supports drug legalization? The federal courts will decide. Prince Georges County, Maryland, cops messed with the wrong guy when their SWAT team hit ...

Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past. Web Scan: WOLA on Mexico Drug Wars, Sentencing Project and Others Report to UN Human Rights Committee, CURE on Prisons in ...