Lester Grinspoon explains how his clinical observations convinced him that marijuana is not harmful and should be legal.

The US Fish And Wildlife Service plans to drop rat poison on the Farallon Islands to eradicate mice that threaten the survival of endangered storm petrels there.

To eradicate mice (or rats or cats) from an island in order to protect endemic wildlife is entirely legitimate. It is only the method they propose that threatens to be very foolish.

The FBI has shifted its focus to terrorism, neglecting white-collar crime. The attorney general sets an example of neglecting white-collar crime by declaring the banksters too big to jail.

The UK is pushing a law to make arbitrary prohibitions (ASBOs) even more sweeping and arbitrary.

People could be subject to two years in prison for almost any sort of behavior that judges dislike. Protests and meetings could be banned arbitrarily.

Canada's government in 2013 displayed a record of blatant and shameless corruption and pandering.