Beckley News : Cannabis - Marijuana

A new study shows that deaths from prescription drug overdoses have quadrupled during the past decade, suggesting that a stronger response is needed.

Cocaine, heroin and weed have never been cheaper — or more potent. Congratulations, global drug policy.

Amanda Feilding: Response: It's wrong to claim prohibition works – instead we need to think about a pragmatic, science-based approach to controlling the market

Drug prohibition - the illegality of many psychoactive substances - is an accepted norm in the UK, although this hasn’t been the case for long.

For centuries the coca leaf was a staple of Andean culture, widely prized for its medicinal qualities – especially in the alleviation of altitude sickness.

The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, met on Thursday with the Minister of State for Crime Prevention of the United Kingdom, Jeremy Browne, with whom he analyzed the drug situation in the region.

A flesh-rotting drug is eye-popping, but the real story should ask why we aren’t doing more to help impoverished addicts.

In a sign of changing times, at least two separate marijuana initiative campaigns are getting underway in Wyoming, one of the reddest of the red states.

From October 1, an adult caught smoking cannabis in Switzerland can escape formal legal proceedings by simply paying a fine. Reactions to the relaxed law, which brings the Swiss in line with other western nations, are divided.

Drug prohibition - the illegality of many psychoactive substances - is an accepted norm in the UK, although this hasn’t been the case for long.

Online, he went by the name "Dread Pirate Roberts" and ran what authorities called "the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet today." But his real name, according to an FBI criminal complaint released Wednesday, was...

The only problem is that everyone thinks Islamist insurgents use "kratom" as a fighting fuel.

Prohibition plants the seeds of its own defeat.

Authorized medical patients in Romania may now use marijuana to allay their pain under new provisions in two of the country's narcotic laws.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today raised a question on the new Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) of the Centre to fix the ceiling price of essential medicines on the basis of market-based pricing. ...

The big issue: The chief constable of Durham was right to raise an issue that causes so many problems in society

Cross the border from Louisiana to Mississippi, and 20 years in jail could become five days. Why do different states have such different drug laws?

Health Minister Rona Ambrose announced today that the federal government is closing "loopholes" in a special access program provides heroin to certain addicts.

A medical marijuana user in Nova Scotia worries new federal rules will make it more difficult for her to treat her rheumatoid arthritis.

Health officials expect it to become more than a $1 billion industry, but pro-weed advocates are unimpressed

Mike Barton, chief constable of Durham, says making drugs legal – but controlling supply – would stop the flow of money to crime gangs and destroy their power

Just over six years ago, in the lush Upper Galilee of northern Israel, the nation’s first large-scale harvest of legal medical marijuana was flowering on the roof deck of Tzahi Cohen’s parents’ house, perched on a cliff overlooking the bright-green...