012, 03:23pm In an unusual step, the New Orleans police officer who shot and killed an unarmed young man during a March drug raid aimed at small-time...

10:05am On Sunday, dozens of Mexican activists led by poet Javier Sicilia crossed into the US at San Diego to begin a weeks-long Caravan for Peace and...

10:42pm Jacob Sullum shares this incredible story from a defense attorney in Kansas. I had a jury trial this morning on level 3 possession with intent MJ, level...

05:49pm Three more people have died in drug war-related incidents in recent days, including a Puerto Rican police officer. They are the 40th, 41st, and 42nd persons...

04:59pm An Arkansas initiative to legalize medical marijuana appears likely to qualify for the November ballot, after proponents handed in an additional 74,000 signatures Monday. The...

12:54am The tendency of the courts to trash our privacy rights in a pathetic attempt to prevent marijuana smoking is so routine that I seldom bother to...

11:11pm The Partnership at DrugFree.org has been putting out outrageous anti-drug propaganda for many years, but this latest spot takes us in a really strange direction…...

No matter the media medium, the tragic story of the federal government’s war against a beloved plant and the people who’re keen to it, can’t be told...

Gary Johnson 2012, August 9, 2012 – Denver, CO During Visit to Colorado, Libertarian Party VP Nominee  Jim Gray Criticizes President Obama for Interfering in State’s Medical Marijuana...

For the second time in recent months, a scientific paper published in a peer-reviewed journal has thoroughly rebutted the present Schedule I status of cannabis under US federal law, which states...

10:25pm I don’t even want to know how many times I’ve written about the reckless idiocy of this man, but what am I supposed to do,...

05:52pm, (Issue #746) The end of dispensaries in LA looms, more federal threat letters in Colorado, and a medical marijuana initiative in North Dakota!? That’s just...

06:12pm A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a bill that would exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marijuana. The bill, if passed, would get...

04:57pm North Dakota could be voting on medical marijuana in November. Proponents of a medical marijuana initiative there handed in about 20,000 signatures to the secretary of state’s...

07:02pm It never stops, does it? Here’s another seven bad apples. Let’s get to it: In Los Angeles, an LA County sheriff’s deputy was charged last Tuesday with...

The campaign behind I-502, a ballot measure that would end cannabis prohibition in Washington State this fall, unveiled their first TV advertisement in support of the initiative....

05:23pm An American Olympic judo contender, Nick Delpopolo, was expelled from the London 2012 Olympic Games Monday after he tested positive for marijuana, and that has...

According to Washington, D.C. Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill, a group of bipartisan Senators, led by Oregon Senator Ron Wyden (D), have filed legislation seeking to exempt...

03:20pm A Phoenix-area SWAT team shot and killed one man during a “dynamic entry” (break the door down) drug raid early Thursday morning after the raiders...

05:14pm An effort to decriminalize pot possession in the southwest Missouri city of Springfield passed a key hurdle Thursday when the city clerk announced that initiative petitions...