The Marion County prosecutor said Monday that he's worried that pending drug cases could fall apart with the recent arrest of a narcotics detective.

Authorities say they broke up a major drug ring that allegedly funneled up to 50 kilograms of cocaine a month to affluent neighborhoods in Highlands Ranch, Fort Collins and other Colorado cities.

The United States leads the world in rates of experimenting with marijuana and cocaine despite strict drug laws, World Health Organization researchers said on Tuesday.

The United States leads the world in rates of experimenting with marijuana and cocaine despite strict drug laws, World Health Organization researchers said on Tuesday.

GERALD, Missouri : Like so many rural communities in the country's middle, this tiny town had wrestled for years with the woes of methamphetamine.

In 2002, at a Johns Hopkins University laboratory, a business consultant named Dede Osborn took a psychedelic drug as part of a research project. She felt like she was taking off. She saw colors. Then it felt like her heart was ripping open. But she called the experience joyful as well as painful, and says that it has helped her to this day.

'I feel more centered in who I am and what I'm doing,' said Osborn, now 66, of Providence, R.I. 'I don't seem to have those self-doubts like I used to have. I feel much more grounded (and feel that) we are all connected.'

A Canadian man was charged in federal court Monday with smuggling $2 million worth of Ecstasy into the United States, authorities said.