- Obama's War on Pot--"In a shocking about-face, the administration has launched a government-wide crackdown on medical marijuana."
- Patient Advocates File Appeal Brief in Federal Case to Reclassify Medical Marijuana
- Caught with six kilos of cannabis and you could still avoid jail--"Courts [in the UK] will be told for the first time to reduce sentences for cannabis possession if it is being used for medicinal purposes."
- New York's Illegal Pot Crackdown: The NYPD continues to make bogus marijuana busts
- NYPD Marijuana Crusade Led to Cops Killing a Teenager in the Bronx
- Marijuana: The facts they don't want you to hear
- Pot legalization: Why doesn’t anyone in Washington take marijuana policy seriously?
- 13 States Working Towards Smart, Sane Marijuana Laws
- Marijuana Push in Colorado Likens It to Alcohol--The initiative has gotten enough signatures to be included in November's ballot. NYT
- Washington state marijuana legalization headed for ballot
- Cowboy Cop Makes the Conservative Case for Marijuana Legalization at CPAC--He explains how it's being kept it illegal.
- Sir Richard Brannson: It’s time to end the failed war on drugs--"Treating addicts as criminals has done absolutely nothing to address this crisis."
- Why is Obama So Chicken, Unwilling to Even Address the Question of Pot and the Failed Drug War?
- Active duty cop: 'The war on drugs is a war on people'--"I did not get in law enforcement to destroy a person's future because that person had marijuana or a pill in their pocket. Why would you want to destroy that person’s future and cause them great harm because of that? It's not worth it."
- Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal
- Latin American leaders assail U.S. drug 'market'--"Latin American leaders have joined together to condemn the U.S. government for soaring drug violence in their countries, blaming the United States for the transnational cartels that have grown rich and powerful smuggling dope north and guns south."
- Afghanistan's Opium Child Brides--"As the heroin trade suffers in Afghanistan, poppy farmers are marrying off their daughters, sometimes to unsavory and far-away men, to pay their debts."
- 100 years of the war on drugs
- Carlos Fuentes: legalise drugs to save Mexico--"Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's greatest writer, claims that legalising drugs is the only way to end the devastating violence that has claimed 50,000 lives in five years."
- Occupy Mexico? How about 'End the Drug War'?--"Most Mexicans would rather stop the bloodshed than occupy the country."
- Mexico President Felipe Calderon's message to US: 'No more weapons!'
- Drug gang banners in Mexico ahead of Pope visit--"A drug gang unfurled banners in a Mexican city that Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to visit next month, telling rival traffickers to keep out and keep the peace during the papal visit."
- Mexico drugs: cartel 'meth boss' Jaime Herrera arrested
- Mexico makes historic methamphetamine seizure--" Mexican troops have made an historic seizure of 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco...."
- Mexico drug war boosts security business--"Amid the violence, Mexico's rich get ID chips, armored cars and gunmen on call."
- Security contractors see opportunities, and limits, in Mexico--The Military Industrial Complex moves in.
- Zetas now 'largest drug cartel' in Mexico
- Blind mules' unknowingly ferry drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border