After more than 80 years of fear, arrests and incarceration, it's time to rethink our approach to a mostly benign substance. It's time to legalize marijuana.
Medical marijuana patient Will Foster was sentenced to 93 years and then ordered free by the courts. Now the state of Oklahoma wants him back behind bars.
Chicago Cubs manager Lou Piniella on Friday defended catcher Geovany Soto, who tested positive for marijuana during the World Baseball Classic, by admitting he once smoked pot.
Consumption of cannabis products in Israel, which was completely forbidden up until ten years ago, is now becoming regulated and may eventually gain the status of other prescribed drugs.
A new wave of reefer madness is sweeping suburbia -- but it's not just teenagers who are lighting up. Middle-aged, middle-class soccer moms are smoking pot ... a lot. These women aren't stoners: they're teachers, lawyers, and, perhaps, even your neighbor who prefers puffing a joint to sipping chardonnay.
President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday the future of Mexican democracy is at stake in the government's fight against official corruption and organized crime, and he criticized politicians who he said want to return to the era when gangs were tolerated.