Study reveals insight to long-term marijuana use, some say debunks myth that weed is less dangerous The idea that smoking pot is less dangerous than the use of heroin or drinking alcohol, and less addictive, has been definitively debunked by a World Health Organization expert, but some media are reporting the reports are false.
DEA interested in U.S. investments in Canadian marijuana industry Americans who want to invest in Canadian marijuana firms may be involved in an illegal transaction.
On Tuesday morning, the Colorado Supreme Court heard the opening arguments in a case that could set a nationwide precedent when it comes to the use of marijuana in states that have legalized the drug.
During a live television broadcast, a TV news reporter in Alaska dropped an F-bomb, walked off-camera and announced that she is quitting her job in order to run an organization that advocates for the legalization of recreational marijuana use in the state.
Philadelphia to become largest city to decriminalize marijuana Philadelphia is poised to be the next city in the nation to legalize marijuana, based on an agreement to sign the law by Mayor Michael Nutter.
Uruguay struggles to implement first-of-its-kind pot legalization Uruguay has launched the first-of-its kind legalization of marijuana, allowing residents who want to grow their own to sign up to do so, the Associated Press reported.
If carrying less than an ounce, only a $25 fine will be assessed. Washington, D. C. has passed a decriminalization law that took effect Thursday at 12:01 a.
President was out with the Colorado governor at a bar. He may have admitted to smoking pot as a young man, but President Obama passed on an offer to legally smoke it Tuesday evening while out at a bar in Colorado.
Good news for weed smokers in Washington state: Starting at 8 a.m. Tuesday, a select group of pot shops selling cannabis for recreational use will be allowed to open their doors to the public.
It looks like Hillary Rodham Clinton's views on marijuana legalization may be evolving. It looks like Hillary Rodham Clinton's views on marijuana legalization may be evolving.
While the movement to legalize marijuana continues to gain momentum and shift public opinion in favor of the drug, a new study links pot to a growing number of fatal traffic accidents.
Last December, the Uruguayan government passed a groundbreaking law that made it the first country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana use, and on Friday, after four months of hammering out the details, Uruguay President Jose Mujica announced the stipulations of the law that will go into effect May 6.
Laws would regulate requirements for doctors and conditions of treatment For many people, marijuana is a drug. It has been around for thousands of years and its cultivation has been recorded in China as early as 2737 B.
As marijuana prices have plummeted in the last five years, in part because of decriminalization in some states of the U.S., Mexican drug farmers in the remote valleys of the northern Sierra Madre have began to harvest opium poppies instead and distribute cheap $4 heroin to many rural areas in America.
