Marijuana, medical marijuana, and the law. The Justice Department says it won’t go after legal users. Now the country must decide how to live with legalized pot.

The rural nightmare of crystal meth and how one Iowa town decided to fight back. Nick Reding and “Methland.”

Pharmaceutical companies – and some scientists – are pushing to make drugs like Adderall and Ritalin mainstream performance enhancers.

America’s health care costs are breaking budgets all over, but the tab for pharmaceuticals just keeps rising.
In 1980, Americans spent $12 billion on prescription drugs. Now it’s more like $200 billion. More than any other country — and yet we don’t live longer than others.
Reporter Melody Petersen asked what’s going on. What she found was [...]

From American streets to Andean coca farms, the United States has battled drugs since Richard Nixon was president. And yet, some 35 years and 500 billion dollars later, drugs are everywhere, and cheap, and Americans are using them in epidemic proportions.
Critics say the War on Drugs is lost — half a million people in prison [...]