A powerful drug cartel is buying off journalists in northern Mexico to work as spies and smother coverage of a spike in killings on the U.S. border in the latest attack on the media in Mexico.
At least 14 states this year will consider legalizing pot for medical purposes or lessening the penalties for possessing small amounts for personal use.
A group of conservative and liberal lawmakers are teaming up to tell the federal government to butt out of the legislative process and local communities about medical marijuana.
New Hampshire's House is considering decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana by adults — seven months after Gov. John Lynch vetoed a bill that would have legalized medical use of the drug.