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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…

3 days ago

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…

6 days ago

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…

6 days ago

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…

1 week ago

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…

3 weeks ago

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…

4 weeks ago

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…

1 month ago

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…

1 month ago

Colombia Wants to Spray Illicit Crops Again. The ’80s Offer a Warning

Colombia is once again looking to the skies to combat drugs. In his first speech as president, far-right leader Abelardo…

1 month ago

Cannabis in Germany: Club Licenses Stall While Medical Access Shrinks

Germany has received nearly 900 applications for cannabis cultivation associations, but only just over half have been approved as clubs…

1 month ago