Senators in Uruguay has approved a bill to become the first country in the world to legalize the growth, sale, and use of marijuana.
Councillors in Berlin have voted to follow in the steps of Amsterdam and launch the first cannabis cafe.
A report by inspectors into Brixton prison has found that inmates were smoking so much marijuana that staff uniforms smelled of the drug.
Paul Flowers, Labour councillor for Bradford Council and former Co-operative Bank chairman, has been suspended by the Labour Party after reportedly being caught buying cocaine.
The distrust of the British public in MPs has been highlighted once again in a recent YouGov poll in which Londoners said they would be more likely to call for the resignation of a politician for fiddling their expenses than smoking crack cocaine.