Search results for "drug war"
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Legal
Georgia’s War on Delta-8 THC
May 7, 2022County sheriffs and district attorneys in at least three regions of Georgia are cracking down hard...
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Economics
California Cannabis Operators Warn of Possible Industry Collapse
December 27, 2021California’s licensed cannabis businesses are warning state leaders that high taxes and competition from the unregulated...
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Legal
Federal Drug Official Admits Legalization Doesn’t Increase Teen Use
September 2, 2021Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, recently admitted that cannabis legalization...
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Politics
What Taliban Rule Means for Afghanistan’s Drug Trade
August 17, 2021Having funded their long insurgency with opium and hashish, the Taliban are poised to establish a...
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Medical
Is Cannabis a Performance-Enhancing Drug?
July 31, 2021Controversy surrounding the disqualification of Olympic athletes testing positive for marijuana has reignited the debate over...
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Joint Opinions
Mexico’s Cannabis Legalization Languishes as Narco-Wars Escalate
July 13, 2020Mexico's President López Obrador met with Trump at the White House last week to inaugurate the...
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Medical
Topicals: The Real Gateway Drug for Senior Citizens
April 4, 2020More and more seniors are coming to cannabis for the first time via topicals, perhaps most...
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Culture
NBA Halts Drug Testing Until Players Return From Coronapocalypse
March 18, 2020The NBA is shutdown and halting drug tests.
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CBD
DOT Not Taking CBD as Excuse for Failed Drug Test
February 25, 2020The nation’s authority on transportation doesn’t care if workers CBD products may have actually had too...
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Politics
Trump Admin. Wants Drug Testing for Unemployment Benefits
October 15, 2019The Trump administration has issued rules allowing drug tests (including for cannabis, of course) for those...
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Legal
Ireland Partially Decriminalizes All Drugs
August 6, 2019After years of planning, Ireland has finally moved ahead to decriminalize first-time drug offenders — and...
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Politics
Kamala Harris & Joe Biden Are Challenged on Their Drug Records in Debate
August 1, 2019Sorry, Twitter: The California senator wasn’t quite “destroyed,” but she didn’t offer an explanation for why...
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Joint Opinions
Cannabis Is the Best Fourth of July Drug
July 4, 2019The Independence Day holiday is the best time to smoke weed.
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Culture
Marijuana Remains Most Popular Drug in the World
July 3, 2019Around 188 million people around the world enjoyed cannabis in 2017.
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Politics
Former Heads of State: Drug Classifications Are All Politics, No Science
June 30, 2019As anyone who’s read the Controlled Substances Act can tell you: duh.
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Politics
U.S. Citizen Caught in Anti-Drug Sweeps in the Philippines
June 12, 2019A young man from Wisconsin has been jailed on a cannabis charge in the Philippines in...
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CBD
Study: CBD May Help Cancer Drugs Kill Certain Cancer Cells
May 27, 2019Colorectal cancers shrink and die when exposed to CBD and TRAIL treatment, researchers in South Korea...
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Legal
Colorado Courts Tighten Legal Leash on Drug Dogs, With Fraught Implications for Cannabis
May 25, 2019Colorado's Supreme Court ruled that thanks to the constitutional changes instated by the 2012 cannabis legalization...
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Culture
NYC on the Verge Of Eliminating Drug Testing for Marijuana Users
April 10, 2019Measure could prohibit THC testing on the job.
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CBD
Can CBD Combat Alcohol & Drug Addiction? Maybe.
March 21, 2019Researchers found evidence that CBD could curb cravings in substance-abuse sufferers — but don't forget about...