Fourteen states and the District of Columbia allow people to use marijuana to treat a wide variety of ailments. Each law is different — but if you look at them in chronological order, a pattern emerges: The laws are becoming stricter. The states passing laws today include more regulation than the early adopters did. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127012745

The drug is being cut with anti-worm medicine, a mix linked to two deaths. Those may just be the start. http://www.startribune.com/local/95786899.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUac8HEaDiaMDCinchO7DUs

A second man who attended a Cow Palace rave died after a weeklong effort by doctors to bring him back from the brink, officials said Monday. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/08/BARR1DRATQ.DTL#ixzz0qShkz7Wf

One in five high school students in the United States has taken a prescription medication that was not prescribed for them, a new survey shows. Conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the survey http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/639796.html

Reporting from Mexico City — More than half of the “breathtaking” sums of money earned by Mexican drug cartels in the U.S. and smuggled into this country dissolves into Mexico’s cash-based economy, eluding detection and funding vast criminal operations, according to a new U.S.-Mexican government study released Wednesday. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/03/world/la-fg-mexico-cash-20100603

One high school student in five has taken a prescription drug without a doctor’s order, according to a nationwide survey. Abuse of a prescription drug was most common among white students (23 percent), followed by Hispanics (17.2 percent) and blacks (11.8 percent), according to Danice Eaton of the CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health…

Pat Fogarty, superintendent of the RCMP’s combined forces special enforcement unit, is also certain that Mexican cartels have made their way above the Canada-U.S. border. It started about a decade ago, he says, when Canadian demand for cocaine took off. But the process has become more streamlined: “We have a completely new infrastructure that supports…

Chace Crawford was arrested on charges of marijuana possession near his hometown of Plano, Texas, late last week. http://www.rttnews.com/Content/EntertainmentNews.aspx?Section=2&Id=1326599&SM=1

OLYMPIA, Wash. — A new law that takes effect Thursday in Washington aims to encourage people to report drug overdoses. The Daily Herald of Everett reports the “911 Good Samaritan” law grants limited immunity to people who call for help. The idea is to get medical attention in time to prevent an overdose death. http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_drug_overdose_law.html