Jamaica’s Cannabis Reform Opens a New Path for Small Growers
Jamaica has introduced two new special permits designed to help traditional growers and small farmers enter its regulated cannabis industry despite the […]
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Cheaper Flower, More Choice, No Surge in Use: The Netherlands’ Cannabis Pilot Delivers Its First Results
For decades, the Netherlands has lived with a long-standing contradiction known as the “backdoor problem”: coffeeshops could sell cannabis under certain conditions […]
Twenty Brazilian Cannabis Patient Associations Are Meeting Inside a Free Arts Fair in Fortaleza
Twenty patient associations from across northeastern Brazil are meeting in Fortaleza this month, inside a free three-day arts fair. The agenda item […]
Prehistoric High: 25,000-Year-Old Teeth May Hold the Oldest Evidence of Psychoactive Drug Use
Researchers analyzing two ancient skeletons from Indonesia found dramatic dental wear and traces of arecoline, suggesting people may have sucked psychoactive areca […]
Mexico’s Supreme Court Says Cooking With Cannabis Is Allowed—With a Personal-Use Permit
Mexico’s Supreme Court has pushed the boundaries of legal adult-use cannabis a little further. This time, the issue was not cultivation, possession […]
New Zealand Joins Australia in Opening Restricted Access to MDMA for PTSD
New Zealand has authorized two psychiatrists to prescribe pharmaceutical-grade MDMA to selected adults with PTSD who have not responded to conventional treatments, […]
Chile Sent 500 Police to Raid a Cannabis Patient Organization Serving 16,000 People. Prosecutors Call It Organized Crime.
Chile’s Operación Imperio Ámsterdam (Operation Amsterdam Empire, in English) mobilized more than 500 police officers and around twenty prosecutors, resulting in more […]
Barcelona’s Plan Druida Is Turning Up the Pressure on Cannabis Clubs
Barcelona’s Plan Druida expands police presence and surveillance in response to drug trafficking and use, while also placing the city’s cannabis clubs […]
Can THC Quiet PTSD Nightmares? New Research Offers Clues
We’ve all had nightmares at some point. The agitation, the fear, the scenarios our own minds create and take us into. The […]
Australia Bans ‘Halloween’ Video Game Over Weed, Not Its Brutal Violence
Gore, Michael Myers, lots of blood, brutal deaths, torture. So far, so good. But… weed? In a game that kids could play? […]