- Leaked paper reveals UN split over war on drugs—"Latin American nations call for treatment strategy, claiming UN's prohibition stance plays into hands of paramilitary groups."
- Report: Threat Of Mandatory Minimums Used To Coerce Guilty Pleas—"A new report says the Justice Department regularly coerces defendants in federal drug cases to plead guilty by threatening them with steep prison sentences or stacking charges to increase their time behind bars."
- First person in Northeast Ohio arrested under 'hidden compartment' law
- FDA: Anti-smoking drug Chantix linked to more than 500 suicides
- Drug suspects had soap, not cocaine bricks—"Pair spent month in prison before lab results came back."
- Obama frees eight crack offenders, including Clarence Aaron—"Today, I am commuting the prison terms of eight men and women who were sentenced under an unfair system."
- The Real Walter White
- Uruguay: Finally, a nation legalizes pot
- Legal marijuana in Uruguay violates international law, says UN agency—Big Pharma's bitch?
- Uruguay's Prez Rips Into U.N. Official Over Marijuana Law: 'Stop Lying'
- Pot Legalization Loses Top Funder
- Mass. activists push to fully legalize marijuana
- Legalized pot could threaten the alcohol industry Salon
- Jackson police officials say they'll allow possession of marijuana on private property after public vote
- Denver officials vote to allow front porch weed smoking
- Courts, US public at odds over worker firings for 'legal' marijuana use
- Cpl. Ron Francis turns in RCMP serge after pot controversy
- Demand, price for B.C. bud dropping in wake of U.S. legalization
- Morocco seeks legalization of marijuana cultivation and exports
- Field Poll: In a first, majority of California voters back marijuana legalization—The trend is nationwide.
- Colorado could make history by funding cannabis research
- Mom Recounts Using Medical Marijuana To Treat Her Son's Epilepsy
- 500-toker pot party gets OK'd outdoors at Seattle Center—"For the first anniversary of legal weed, the city will permit a giant pot party on the site of Seattle Center's old Fun Forest amusement park."
- Berlin council votes to open first cannabis cafe
- Pot Falls From the Sky in San Diego
- You Don't Have the Right to Remain Silent—"The Supreme Court's terrible—and dangerous—ruling this week on the Fifth Amendment."
- Texas Judge Who Resigned After Allegedly Colluding With Prosecutor Now Running For Prosecutor
- Incarceration Nation—"America's prison population has exploded from 300,000 in the 1970s to more than two million today due to harsh sentencing policies and the 40-year-old war on drugs. "
- 71 Percent Want to Eliminate Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Non-Violent Offenders
- Wake County jailer trial guilty of involuntary manslaughter, sentenced to 90 days in jail
- Lawsuit accuses MDOC guards of having sex with juveniles, allowing them to be raped
- Officer sentenced for blowing off man's testicles with stun grenade
- Guns & Ammo column backing Illinois gun law brings vitriolic backlash, costs writer his job
- The Gun Training Class that Teaches Students to Keep Firearms Under the Bed, Loaded
- Philly, First US City to Ban 3D Printed Guns "Based On Internet Stuff"
- Toy Guns Should Not Look Like Real Ones: California Lawmaker NYT
- Gun activists have a new craze — and it's more dangerous than you think—"The new front line in the battle over gun rights is 'open carry.' Here's why it has psychologists deeply concerned." Salon
- DC: Every D.C. firearm owner to be fingerprinted to renew gun registry—Starting January 1st.
- NYPD cracks down on long guns that hold more than five rounds
- Plastic guns ban extended—"The Senate on Monday passed a bill to extend a ban on guns that can't be detected by x-ray machines and metal detectors."
- ATF uses rogue tactics in storefront stings across nation—"The agency said failures of its Milwaukee operation were isolated, but the Journal Sentinel found similar issues in at least six cities nationwide — targeting the mentally disabled, encouraging crimes and more."
- Opinion: Keep your guns, but take responsibility
- Battle Creek police officer shoots 14-year-old holding fake gun
- Kentucky Man Sets Gun On Toilet Paper Dispenser While Using Restroom, Gun Goes Off
- Gonzaga students could face expulsion for using gun to fend off intruder—"[T]he university says violates the school's weapons policy."
- Teen Hero, 16, Fatally Shot in Indiana Home—"One of the witnesses, Dajuan Williams, told police that McDaniel tried to get Peters to hold the gun, but she refused. Williams said McDaniel dropped the magazine from the gun, took the safety off and pulled the trigger. A bullet struck Peters, who clutched her chest and said, 'What just happened?'"
- At Least 194 Children Have Been Shot to Death Since Newtown—"The NRA says arming more adults will protect kids—but most are killed at home, our investigation shows, often with unsecured guns."
- Armed Texas Tea Party Pro-Gun Nuts Stalk and Intimidate Four Women At Gun Safety Group Meeting—How long before this group gets really MADD?
- It's Not My Gun. It's "Free Speech."—"The alarming rise of 'open-carry' demonstrations."
- Does This Photo Vindicate Armed Pro-Gun Protesters In Texas?
- #Bloodycyclists Twitter post driver Emma Way guilty
- Bicyclist Struck And Killed By Sheriff's Patrol Car In Calabasas
- Officer Who Fired on Runaway Family's Minivan Fired
- Cover-up of fatal hit-and-run after Portland Timbers game was most extensive police have seen
- Boston Police indefinitely suspends license plate reader program—"BPD's scanners saw a stolen motorcycle 59 times over 5 months and police did nothing."
- Teen Sentenced To Probation For Deadly DWI Crash—"A teenager who killed four people while driving drunk has been sentenced to probation. Prosecutors were pushing for 16-year-old Ethan Couch to spend 20 years in prison. However, State District Judge Jean Boyd sentenced Couch to a decade of probation." The teen's defense? 'Affluenza.'
- Judge who let off 'spoiled' rich teen who killed four in DUI previously put boy aged fourteen in prison for TEN YEARS
- Attorney General's Office Looking Into Ethan Couch Case
- Victims' families file multimillion dollar lawsuits against "affluenza" teen—Watch CNN's interview with Eric Boyles on loss and "affluenza" defence
- There's No Defense for Affluenza—"The claim that a rich kid didn't understand consequences is a distortion of psychology."
- Feinstein's NSA Bill Is Officially on Life Support—"A federal judge, tech groups, and even the senator say we need to take a closer look at the National Security Agency's surveillance programs."
- Former CIA chief: Snowden should be "hanged by the neck until dead"—"A very tentative suggestion of amnesty on a CBS program leads to a threat."
- Report Suggests NSA Engaged In Financial Manipulation, Changing Money In Bank Accounts
- Snowden leak confirms Denmark spying deal with US
- Finland implements fibers to avoid spying from NSA—"According to Wikileaks, Finland has now committed to building a new fiber optic cable to Germany specifically to prevent Sweden from intercepting data and passing it on to NSA."
- NSA decision and report: The agency's most intrusive program is unnecessary.
- Rockefeller: 'Data brokers' worse than NSA spying—"Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) said tracking by 'data brokers' is worse than surveillance by the U.S. government. [...] 'The [National Security Agency] is so secure in its protection of privacy as compared to this group that we're talking to, these data brokers,' he said. 'It's not even close.'"
- Doctor allegedly posts ER photos of aspiring actress on Facebook, Instagram
- Miss Teen USA spied on via MacBook camera while indicator light was off
- You Should Never, Ever Leave Your Webcam Uncovered When You Aren't Using It
- Facebook self-censorship: What happens to the posts you don't publish?
- Facial Recognition on Facebook to IPhone Awaits U.S. Code
- Spain fines Google $1.2 billion for breaching privacy laws
- How to delete and disable your Google location history
