Mexico's government has scoffed at the idea of a truce in the country's raging drug war as a Ciudad Juarez newspaper pleaded with drug cartels after one of its photographers was slain.
Former governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson says marijuana prohibition is just like alcohol prohibition: Get rid of the bad drug policies and get rid of today's Al Capones.
Mexican president, Felipe Calderón has said that he supports a debate on the legalisation of drugs after new figures showed that 28,000 people had been killed in cartel wars.
A top drug gang enforcer says he ordered the killing of a U.S. consulate worker because she helped provide visas to a rival gang in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, federal police said Friday.
LA Police are trying to determine whether there was any connection between two robberies hours apart Thursday at two medical marijuana dispensaries that left two employees dead.
CANNABIS CULTURE - The open war of Felipe Calderón's Mexican government against organized crime and drug trafficking has reached nearly 18,000 victims, according to the judicial authorities of Mexico.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Police used violent force in a raid on a Toronto location of the Cannabis As Living Medicine (C.A.L.M.) Compassion Club on Wednesday, and arrested and laid marijuana trafficking charges against several staff members.