Marijuana

A police officer in Greece was arrested on drugs charges for allegedly using his service car to smuggle marijuana.

A study suggests daily cannabis users have a 25 percent increased risk of a heart attack and a 42 percent increased risk of a stroke.

The Virginia state House and Senate agreed on Wednesday on a bill that would establish a legal market for recreational marijuana. 

Cholnan Srikaew, the health minister of Thailand, said on Thursday that recreational marijuana will be banned by the end of 2024. Thailand was the first Southeast Asian country to legalize medical marijuana in 2018, followed by recreational use in 2022.

A former Chicago policeman was arrested Wednesday in connection to a $350,000 burglary committed in May at the home of an elderly woman.

Elon Musk’s alleged use of illegal drugs has reportedly become a source of concern for executives and board members at Tesla and SpaceX, potentially threatening the stability and future of these tech giants.

Japan on Tuesday announced that six synthetic substitutes for THC will be banned effective January 6 after making some users sick.

Ukraine voted Tuesday to legalize medical marijuana, after the war with Russia left thousands of people with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Rapper Snoop Dogg broke the Internet with a cryptic social media post on Thursday, announcing, “I’m giving up smoke.”

A 25-year-old Chicago man is accused in the fatal shooting and robbery of a longtime friend on November 7.

A Florida man traveling in Chicago was arrested after Amtrak authorities found $1.2 million worth of methamphetamine in his luggage, police said.

President Joe Biden’s FDA is pushing to ban menthol cigarettes after it has pressed for safe crack pipe distribution and marijuana reform.

A shooting in Copenhagen’s anarchist neighborhood known for its hashish trade left a 30-year-old man dead and four other people inured.

A hot-air balloon pilot was on two kinds of drugs during a fatal 2021 crash in Albuquerque, New Mexico, according to officials.

Half of Americans said they have tried marijuana, a poll reveals; Democrat men were the single most likely group to smoke the drug.

A five-year-old Indiana boy, allegedly high on cocaine, shot and killed his 16-month-old brother, who was allegedly high on marijuana, in March of this year.

Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Kevin Morris, was photographed smoking a bong in broad daylight during a visit from Biden, Daily Mail reported.

Model Gigi Hadid and her friend, Leah Nicole McCarthy, were arrested last week at a Cayman Islands airport and charged with possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

A man accused of carrying a large amount of marijuana in his vehicle allegedly told Chicago police officers it was for his personal use. 

The Secret Service discovered marijuana twice in President Joe Biden’s White House, the agency revealed upon failing to identify the individual who smuggled cocaine into one of the most secure buildings in the world.

Democratic presidential challenger Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called Sunday for the federal legalization of marijuana, arguing that states should be allowed to decide their own pot laws without federal interference.

The man who killed a South Carolina mail carrier after she did not deliver marijuana to his home was sentenced to life in prison Thursday.

Former police commissioner Bill Bratton said Sunday on WABC’s “The Cats Roundtable” that New York City supports drug addiction with vending machines that give out free crack pipes and Narcan, an overdose-reversing drug.”

The spotlight is on Hunter Biden’s purported crime again after the ATF’s St. Paul office reaffirmed the agency’s position that state laws legalizing the recreational use of certain drugs do not remove gun prohibitions against the users of said drugs as long as federal law continues to identify the drugs as illegal.

The ATF used the occasion of Minnesota legalizing recreational marijuana use to note that marijuana use and firearms possession are not legally compatible. 

A psychiatrist at Washington University said there is a rise in cases of young people unknowingly smoking marijuana laced with fentanyl.

Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) used industry officials to “help” craft legislation that “would cut red tape for farmers who grow hemp,” according to Politico.

San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office deputies raided a suspected marijuana grow house Saturday morning and seized nearly 200 plants. Deputies first found the grow operation while searching for the alleged murderer of five Honduran migrants last week.

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen started a cannabis company to help free jailed drug offenders. The marijuana products will be launched in Vermont next month.

Olympic long jumper Tara Davis-Woodhall was stripped of a national title and handed a one-month suspension after testing positive for pot.

Heavy regulations, high taxes, and oversupply are causing the legal marijuana industry in California to contract rapidly, with the state reportedly losing nearly a quarter of its legal cultivation “canopy” since the start of 2022. SFGate.com recently reported (links included): The

According to the Athletic, the NBA has removed all testing and penalties for the consumption or use of marijuana in its new CBA.

An 11-year-old boy from New York City was hospitalized after overdosing on THC gummies that he mistook for candy at a Super Bowl party.

The fact that marijuana is widely available in New York City is reportedly taking a toll on dogs who live there.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Patrick R. Wyrick dismissed an indictment against Jared Michael Harrison, holding that the statute relied upon to ban gun ownership by marijuana users is “unconstitutionally vague, in violation of the Due Process Clause, and unconstitutionally infringes upon his fundamental right to possess a firearm, in violation of the Second Amendment.”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than 1.5 tons of marijuana at a South Texas port of entry on January 14. Officials reported the value of the drugs to be in excess of $7.5 million.