A woman running for city council in the northwestern Brazilian town of Itacoatiara was arrested on Sunday — election day — for allegedly distributing packets of cocaine to residents who promised to vote for her.

An elderly couple told police in the English town of Bedford they unknowingly purchased a cannabis plant at a car boot sale, believing it to be a generic green shrub.

For millennia, humans have wondered what happens after we die. Finally, we have a definitive answer: this week, in an exclusive cover story, Newsweek reveals that "Heaven Is Real." And it sounds suspiciously like a DMT trip as described on internet drug forums.

Of the "Stoner Dog" meme, the website Meme Generator says, "it is very difficult not to look at this meme and burst out laughing immediately."

A 45-year Scottish property developer who had become so rich he was able to retire at 36 was sentenced to five years in jail this week following a major cocaine bust last year.

Speaking at yesterday's unveiling of a new anti-substance abuse initiative, Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro took shots at Lady Gaga for allegedly glorifying drug use in the eyes of today's impressionable youth.

Brand new Atlantic Media business publication Quartz has a post up today about the boom in Brazilian cocaine use. Apparently, in the midst of its march toward becoming one of the world's wealthiest nations, Brazil is now also one of the largest consumers of cocaine, snorting 18 percent of the global supply, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. But while we're proud of the Brazilians, America, once again, is the real victor here, with citizens who inhale nearly 37 percent of all the cocaine in the world. One and a half percent of Americans do cocaine, and the average intake per user is 42 grams a year. USA! USA! USA!

Fiona Apple was arrested for hash possession Thursday — which, come on, seriously? On Friday, she related her jailbird blues to a concert audience in Houston.

Earlier today, former MMA fighter Jarrod Wyatt pled guilty to first degree murder and mayhem for one of the more grotesquely violent crimes in recent memory; in 2010, Wyatt cut an 18-inch hole in his friend and sparring partner Taylor Powell's chest before ripping out Powell's heart, tongue and face, all while tripping on mushrooms. As part of his plea Wyatt will serve at least 50 years in prison.

A news team from Central Arkansas NBC affiliate KARK were in Benton on Sunday shooting a story about a house damaged by a fallen tree when out of the woods walked an intoxicated man wearing naught but the clothes he was born with.

As far as drug stashes go, the inside of a roasted chicken is not the worst idea I've heard. But, alas, it wasn't clever enough for a Nigerian mechanic attempting to smuggle $150,000 of cocaine into Lagos from Brazil. Nigerian police arrested him at the Lagos airport after discovering over five pounds of poultry-covered cocaine, all wrapped inside egg-shaped tinfoil.

To celebrate a friend's birthday, comedian Josh Androsky and 20 of his comic buddies decided it would be fun to get really drunk, do some shrooms, and go be audience members on The Price is Right. And wouldn'tcha know it — Josh was picked to be a contestant and was told to come on down.

According to a recent study from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, seventeen percent of high schoolers are either drunk, stoned or smoking cigarettes during school hours. That seems...about right? I don't know. It's been a while since I was in high school.

Real World: Hollywood cast member Joey Kovar was found dead Friday morning.

Cannabis-derived smoking drug marijuana, once confined to fringe attendees of elderly "hippie" music festivals and 1960s-era "dead heads," has now firmly implanted itself in America's youth culture, as teenagers embrace its "organic" marketing label and retro appeal. But surely this fresh-from-the-plant leafy green fertilizer-intensive drug will confine itself to our nation's rural areas, right? That's where you're wrong, parents—it's already making its way into America's largest city.

TMZ posted a photo of Macaulay Culkin in which he looks significantly healthier and not addicted to heroin.

Someone's getting rich off the online drug marketplace Silk Road. A new paper estimates that sales of drugs and other illicit goods on Silk Road total $22 million a year. Meanwhile, Silk Road got a fancy new redesign. It's officially boom times on the digital black market.

Today was a tough one for Olympians. First, American Judo person Nick Delpopolo accidentally ate some pot brownies and got the boot. Then news breaks that a U.S. rower had a boner during his recent medal ceremony. Now comes word that Italy's national hero and walking champion Alex Schwazer was banned from the Olympics today after he failed a drug test. The illegal substance was not disclosed.

Mason, Ohio is just a typical Middle American town. Home to the Golf Center at Kings Island. Hell, Money magazine named it the 24th Best Place to Live in America, 2011. A fine place to raise a family. Or so we thought. Because even Mason, Ohio has found its public schoolhouses infested with what you've always feared: marijuana.

Police in Australia seized 1,230 pounds of crystal meth and heroin or $525 million.