The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ban smoking in apartment buildings—but made an exception for marijuana, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. 
The team slated to lead Joe Biden's transition at a top drug agency is devoid of representatives of progressive drug policy organizations, a departure from the president-elect's conciliatory stance on the campaign trail. 
Mexico’s former minister of defense, Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, was arrested Thursday night on charges of drug trafficking and money laundering, making him the highest-ranking official in Mexican history to be arrested on such charges, the New York Times reported Friday.
Federal agents have seized over 3,000 pounds of methamphetamine, as well as large volumes of fentanyl and heroin, at the southwestern border, the Drug Enforcement Agency announced Sunday. 
The United States on Tuesday issued sanctions on a Chinese national alleged to be "one of the most significant drug traffickers in the world," according to the State Department. 
Americans, you may have heard, are dying "deaths of despair": suicides, drug overdoses, and alcoholic liver disease that are together driving down the nation's life expectancy. The concept has been bandied about since it was coined by a pair of Princeton economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton. After five years, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism is the pair's book-length offering on what they believe is driving the crisis. 
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said on Sunday that under his administration, heroin possession would not be illegal or would at most be a misdemeanor. 
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) in his first ever campaign for the U.S. Senate made the legalization of all drug use one of the cornerstones of his policy platform. 
The United States is facing a drug overdose epidemic driven by methamphetamine, cocaine, and synthetic opioids, data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control confirm. 
The Department of Justice on Tuesday announced the indictment of four men it claimed have been smuggling cocaine into the United States for almost 15 years. 