Drugs are an issue which – like migration, social liberalization and economic tensions – has the capacity to shatter democratic and human rights norms. Perhaps no other extreme found in drug policies ...

A Killing in Cannabis: A True Story of Love, Murder, and California Weed by Scott Eden (2026, Spiegel & Grau, 370 pp., $30 HB) Tushar Atre was a stereotypical Northern California character: A New York ...

The state Senate voted 35-13 Wednesday to approve Senate Bill 250, which would align state law with the federal ban on intoxicating and synthetic hemp products set to go into effect in November. The ...

Wisconsin doesn't allow legal marijuana or even medical marijuana, but unregulated intoxicating hemp products are for sale on store shelves across the state. Now, lawmakers in Madison are studying ...

Late last year, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) signed into law Senate Bill 56, a marijuana regulation bill which has provisions banning intoxicating hemp products from being sold anywhere other than ...

Last Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order, Increasing Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research, that sets the stage for moving cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III of the ...

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order, Increasing Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research, that expedites the process of moving cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III of the ...

In passing the appropriations bill to end the federal government shutdown, Congress earlier this month also dealt a potential death blow to the multi-billion dollar hemp industry. Included in the bill ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is widely viewed as the father of the American hemp industry, given his role as then-Senate Majority Leader in pushing across the finish line the 2018 farm bill that ...

Secretary of Defense Hegseth announces a new counter-narcotics task force in the Caribbean, Singapore again resorts to the death penalty for a drug offender, and more. Senate Republicans Block Effort ...

A Florida appeals court is the latest to rule that the odor of marijuana is no longer grounds for a vehicle search, Wisconsin Republicans take on their own party as they try again to pass a medical ...

The US Virgin Islands ends vehicle searches based on the smell of weed, the drug czar's office is reviewing Drug Free Community grants to ensure they don't promote "the radical left's agenda," and ...