A long-term study on opioid addiction and cannabis use found little to no evidence that using cannabis can help addicts reduce or stop their long-term intake of illicit opioids.
The study, published in the American Journal...
A 44-year-old man implicated in a Encrochat conspiracy involving dealing cocaine, heroin and cannabis has been handed a prison sentence of 14 years and nine months.
Earlier pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply class A...
By Evan Dawes
I hadn’t seen David since I got sent down. He was waiting in the visitor’s room, looking like he was afraid he’d catch bad luck. We went through the preliminary how-you-beens, then I asked him if he’d...
If Oregon’s experience as the first-ever state to legalize psilocybin is any indication, Colorado is in for a long, strange trip as it moves to set up its own legal industry.
Enthusiasm about psychedelics among the general...
The social experiment of decriminalizing drugs and providing a health-based program instead of locking up drug users is taking hold in Australia’s capital.
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT)—home of capital city Canberra—passed...
The UN has just issued a report about cannabis that will no doubt in the near future look as alarmist as it is dated. Namely, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has issued its annual world drug report.
Here are the...
British Columbia will decriminalize personal possession of small amounts of drugs for three years in an attempt to address the province’s crisis of overdose deaths. The Canadian federal government announced on Wednesday...
The Greenwood Police Department (GPD) in South Carolina issued an advisory to parents this week cautioning them about a recent discovery in which a green substance tested positive as heroin, but looked quite a bit like cannabis.
The...
More research is needed to determine if a new study exploring how cannabis legalization influences illegal drug markets is correct in finding that prices for weed falls but those for hard drugs rises.
“Our exploratory findings...
Allowing drugs like cocaine, heroin and meth to be produced and sold legally would create an inevitable financial boon for state and local governments. But that doesn’t mean it’s the smart move.
It’s hard in this...
Measure 110 would reduce all drug possession arrests to misdemeanors and cause all drug convictions to drop by 91%.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have put their weight behind a measure to decriminalize...
A Canadian doctor is calling out his peers for spreading misinformation about cannabis edibles.
China warns its citizens of the dangers of consuming second-wave cannabis products
South Carolina Attorney General calls medical...
Us marijuana advocates are no strangers to haters, or the ridiculous arguments they employ to try to convince anyone that will listen that marijuana is indeed Satan's lawn clippings and will ruin every aspect of your life....