Mark Wahlberg, since the splendidly silly The Other Guys, has morphed into a comic actor and it's paying dividends – certainly better than dim actioners such as Max Payne.

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Donald Green told magistrates he attempted to get the cocaine back and searched the streets for the children

Now Washington and Colorado have elected to legalize marijuana, how are citizens to pick up their weed? MedBox think they have the solution. Vending machines. And if their recent stock boom is anything to go by, they could well be right.

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P David Ebersole, 103mins, NC

Newmarket is no 'den of iniquity', says racing's chaplain on fears raised by jockey's positive test

The number of people needing treatment for “club drugs” such as ecstasy, ketamine and “meow meow” is creeping upwards, a new report has found.

Responsibility for the murder of a prison officer in Northern Ireland has been admitted by an alliance of dissident republican splinter groups which came together in June.

Senior administration officials acknowledged Friday that they are wrestling with how to respond to the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington, which directly violates federal drug law and is sparking a broad debate about the direction of US drug policy.

Some of the triumphalism over Barack Obama's re-election has been overdone. There has been extravagant talk of the end of the Republican Party, heading for extinction as a result of "demographics". America, it is pointed out, is becoming more diverse, more socially liberal and more accepting of the case for active government.

The decision by voters in Colorado and Washington state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana has left President-elect Enrique Pea Nieto and his team scrambling to reformulate their anti-drug strategies in light of what one senior aide said was a referendum that "changes the rules of the game."

Interview with the filmmaker behind a compelling short film (which you can watch here) about women in Iran