News Brief

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) gets banned from a fifth Native American reservation over her cartel comments, 18 are dead in prohibition-related violence in the Mexican state of Zacatecas, and more.

Mayor Eric Adams (D) is heralding a crackdown on illicit pot shops in New York City, the Supreme Court demurs on faster hearings in asset forfeiture cases, and more.

A hundred grand in drug money is missing from a narcotics office in Pennsylvania, a Wisconsin cop cops to forging signatures in a drug investigation, and more.

A proposed psychedelic initiative is now drawing organized opposition in Massachusetts, a psychedelic study bill is moving in Vermont, and more.

Minnesota lawmakers are working to expedite the arrival of legal marijuana, voters in the West Texas city of Lubbock resoundingly rejected marijuana decriminalization, and more.

A Republican US senator from Tennessee engages in some Reefer Madness, a safe injection site in Burlington, Vermont, is one step closer to happening, and more.

A House panel advances a bill aimed at therapeutic psychedelics for military veterans, a South Carolina committee chair pronounces a medical marijuana bill dead, and more.

A former Border Patrol agent heads for federal prison and a Kentucky corrections officer gets busted in Oklahoma. Let's get to it.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and allies have refiled the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act and a leading certifier of organic, regenerative pot farms seeks to expand.

A push to pass the SAFER Banking Act via the FAA reauthorization bill has faltered, fentanyl is wiping out opium farmers in Guatemala, and more.