The Justice Department indicted FedEx Thursday on federal charges that accuse the company of having conspired with illegal online pharmacies to deliver controlled substances and other pharmaceuticals purchased by people without prescriptions.

It appears that Rob Ford's time in rehab wasn't as rosy as his recent mea culpa-cum-campaign speech would have you think. Patients and staff at GreeneStone told the Toronto Star the mayor was "disruptive" during his time there, and management was worried he may have been continuing to use drugs or alcohol.

Rob Ford, Toronto's newly rehabilitated mayor, told Canadian news broadcasters CP24 and Canadian Broadcasting Corp. that he has "used every drug you can probably think of." Except for heroin.

At a conference today, Pope Francis made his position on pot and other recreational drugs clear: attempts to legalize "are not only highly questionable from a legislative standpoint," he argued, "but they fail to produce the desired effects." Even cool popes, it would seem, have their limits.

A decade ago, everyone was worried about all our kids being on antidepressants. What about the side effects. So the FDA put big warnings on antidepressants about possible increased suicide risks for young people. How did that turn out?

A 450-lb, 42-year-old American man was arrested this weekend after he allegedly hid drugs in his stomach rolls. Christopher Mitchell was first pulled over with his friend Keithian Roberts in Volusia County, Fla. for not wearing a seatbelt. After the two appeared to act "nervously," cops had a K-9 search the scene.

Do you have a kid? Is your kid in high school? There's a pretty good chance they're smoking weed at least occasionally — and if they haven't yet, they're likely to try it eventually. You lit up (just once, and didn't even enjoy it that much) back in your day, right?

Four strippers were arrested in New York today for allegedly drugging several men and charging their credit cards with purchases totaling $200,000 dollars.

Today's New York Times op-ed section features Maureen Dowd's rousing report of trying a pot candy bar in a Denver, Colorado, hotel room. The experience was, shall we say, not a salutary one:

The maker of the erectile dysfunction drug Cialis is seeking permission to sell the drug over the counter when its patent expires in 2017. The most dangerous side effect of this plan: bad jokes. Help us beat dick joke dysfunction, starting now.

A THC-based "syzurp" is reportedly now for sale in California. In other words, if you're keeping score: One real recreational drug, legalized for sale as a medical product, is now being used to make a fake bootleg version of a different medical drug that's widely used for recreational purposes.

America's own War on Drugs™ is so well documented to the point of self-parody, but what of our ancestral progenitors across the pond? They are all snorting a lot of coke. So much, it would appear, that scientists in the UK say its found its way into the water supply:

You might think that the U.S. government's small step towards a national health care system would somehow help bring the cost of prescription drugs down to reasonable levels. You could not be more wrong! You idiot!

Today, The Atlantic has published a long story by Roy Klabin in which Klabin writes about shadowing several drug dealers as they do business. But some of the numbers in his story do not seem to add up.

He's just a man. A man with a dream. A dream of not getting pulled over all the time because of the name he inherited. Also, a dream of allegedly doing some drugs, which, you know, irony!

Typical big corporations: You just want to buy a precision scale to measure ingredients for your own blend of nutrient-rich food substitute, and they think you're some kind of drug-dealing weirdo.

Last week, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced a state of public health emergency as heroin and opiate overdoses rise. The announcement called for a ban on the new drug Zohdyro, an opiate painkiller ten times stronger than Vicodin. In response, Zogenix, the drug's maker, has filed a federal lawsuit.

Though 55% of Americans say they favor legalized weed, a new poll finds that 75% of Americans believe it's "inevitable" that weed will be legalized. Just legalize it already. They'll save so much money on polling.

Rolling coffee up into "caffeine sticks" and smoking it is a hot new trend, and it's turning America's teens into "bean-heads," according to one specious local news report.