Bills being voted on in House Judiciary Committee tomorrow would criminalize new drugs, subject more Americans to mandatory minimum sentencing, and make it a crime to commit a drug offense in another country even if the offense is legal in that country.
Holland's cannabis café culture will be dealt another blow on Friday as the Dutch government decides that the strong marijuana currently sold in coffee shops should be classed in same category as heroin and cocaine.
A 14-year-old boy is being held in a harsh prison cell on the holiday island of Bali for drug possession - one of the youngest foreigners to be arrested in Indonesia.
Federal authorities have seized nearly $250,000 from the accounts of two Sacramento area dispensaries in a probe into alleged concealment of medical marijuana proceeds.