At first, Luis F. Alarid seemed well on his way to becoming a customs agency success story. He had risen from a childhood of poverty and foster homes, some of them...

These days, it seems like everyone is talking in earnest about marijuana legalization, once dismissed as little more than a Cheech and Chong pipe dream. Indeed, a new...

This year and the preceding marked the worst financial crisis in American history. Some countries, like Britain, actually saw a bank run. Trillions has been lost and...

MONTERREY, Mexico — At least 13 people were killed Friday in shootouts in northern Mexico between Mexican troops and gunmen, authorities said. An army official who...

Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that cartels are seeking to control territory by sinking drug money into political campaigns and buying off officials...

At most colleges, marijuana is very much an extracurricular matter. But at Med Grow Cannabis College, marijuana is the curriculum: the history, the horticulture and the...

Mexican President Felipe Calderon said in an interview that crime gangs and drug cartels were “taking over Mexico” before he launched his offensive against...

For Yemenis, the mild narcotic qat is as much a part of life as an after-dinner drink in the West and, as with brandies, connoisseurs want the best varieties. But the...

Jesus Zambada Reyes, the young man at the tender age of 22, was recently found dead in a house in Mexico City. It was mentioned Zambada Reyes had, on numerous...

Opening a parliamentary conference on maternal and newborn health in Kampala yesterday, President Yoweri Museveni said rampant drug theft in Uganda was partly...

To avenge the arrest of their leader, Mexican drug cartel commandos went on a rampage this summer across the lawless state of Michoacan, seizing 12 Mexican police...

A new study shows just how much of a no-brainer it is for politicians for legalize marijuana use. The American “War on Drugs” has been futile and...

Colombia’s fight against drug trafficking is failing and needs new proposals and UN guidance, declared former Colombian Foreign Minister Rodrigo Pardo...

Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico - In the story making the rounds here in Mexico’s drug capital, the setting is a beauty parlor. A woman with wealth obtained...

Some dude outside my supermarket just asked me to sign a petition to legalize marijuana. Apparently he was so high that he forgot he’s in California, where pot is...

Brazilian police on Wednesday announced the capture of 648 kg of marijuana in the southern state of Parana.

These are heady times for advocates of legalized marijuana in California — and only in small part because of the newly relaxed approach of the federal government...

With the Obama administration’s decision not to prosecute medicinal marijuana dealers and users, even though they violate federal law, the country is...

Little is real in Patpong, a glowing bazaar and sex district here in Bangkok. The Gucci is fake, the DVDs are pirated and the go-go girls tell every man he’s...

Murder, torture, steal then pray and donate to charity. The ‘family values’ of Mexican drug cartel La Familia.