Topic
70 articles
Former Mexican president Vicente Fox who once led a military crackdown on drug cartels now has a new pitch: creating a legal system to produce, distribute and tax marijuana.
Yanira Maldonado had no idea that she would be charged with smuggling nearly 12 pounds of cannabis from Mexico into the United States...
The family of an Arizona mother of seven, Yanira Maldonado, being held in a Mexican jail vehemently denies charges that she was trying to smuggle about 12 pounds of marijuana back into the United States.
In a speech in Mexico City on Friday, President Obama shut the door on any possibility that he'll support efforts in his second term to legalize certain...
Mexico has a prickly relationship with US drug law enforcers, but under former President Felipe Calderon, US security cooperation expanded dramatically.
Police in the border city of Mexicali say they have recovered a powerful improvised marijuana cannon used to hurl 13 kilogram packets of marijuana across a border fence into California.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has vowed to cut down on the violence, and he recently talked about his priorities.
Mexico, which has fought a long war against drug cartels that supply US users, is rethinking its marijuana policy after Colorado & Washington approved...
Recreational marijuana use has long been the subject of heated debate, and laws regulating cannabis consumption vary greatly from country to country.
Felipe Calderon has finished his term as president of Mexico and he leaves office known as the man who plunged his country into a drug war....
In some ways 2012 has been a year of dramatic, exciting change in drug policy, as the edifice of global drug prohibition appears to crumble before our eyes.
US Border Patrol agents found marijuana inside soup cans inside of larger cans and sealed on the ends. Drug smugglers were using a cannon to fire...
Breaking the Taboo is a must-see documentary arguing to end the failed War on Drugs (#BreakTheTaboo)
A US Coast Guard member was killed in the line of duty early Sunday when his vessel was rammed by smulggers in a panga boat carrying Mexican marijuana...
A deputy from Mexico's left-leaning Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) Thursday introduced a bill to legalize the use, cultivation, and sale of marijuana.
Of all the fascinating reactions I've seen to Colorado and Washington's successful marijuana legalization initiatives, this is by far the most extraordinary
Last Tuesday's legalization votes are reverberating not just across the country, but across the hemisphere. 5 conservative Latin American heads of state...
Along with catalyzing devastating violence that has claimed 60,000 lives thus far, there's another good reason for Mexico to end its ill-fated drug war...
