As the newly elected Chair of the NORML Board, I am honored to reflect on what Black History Month means to this organization and to the broader cannabis legalization movement. In our fight for consumer rights and personal freedoms, NORML recognizes the deep, undeniable connection between the experiences of Black communities and the evolution of cannabis […]

4 March 2025 Law and Crime Prevention Synthetic drugs are rapidly transforming the global drug trade, fuelling an escalating public health crisis, according to the UN administered International Narcotics Control Board (INCB). In its 2024 Annual Report, released on Tuesday, the INCB explains that unlike plant-based drugs, these substances can be made anywhere, without the need for […]

Green Thumb Industries Inc. (GTBIF) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript   Ben Kovler Thanks, Shay. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining our fourth quarter and year-end 2024 conference call. It’s been an interesting start to the new year as the new administration takes office in DC. There were high hopes for Federal Reform […]

GRENADA has said it will decriminalise marijuana for religious and recreational use. Agriculture Minister Lennox Andrews said the changes will take place before the end of the second half of 2025. The Grenadian Government will bring legislation to Parliament that will decriminalise marijuana for religious and recreational use. “We were hoping to have this done […]

Here’s the latest vis independent journalist Grant – Smith Ellis   By: Grant Smith-Ellis Date: 3/4/25 Time: 6:10am ET There have been some interesting developments on the docket as to the shocking ongoing case between former CCC Chair Shannon O’Brien and State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg. To begin, we now know the names of the people […]

Very rarely does a cocaine story make it out of our cocaine column but this one, as they say, tickled me. A bus full of men posing as musicians on the way to a gig in Texas was stopped at the southern border, and a search revealed a $2.7 million drug smuggling attempt, officials say. […]