El Salvador: Barrio 18 ‘Revolutionaries’ Sentenced in Massacre
Last week, a judge in El Salvador sentenced seven accused members of the country’s feared mara gang networks to 390 years in…
May 30, 2017
France to Drop Prison Terms for Pot Use
France will introduce a law by year’s end to end prison terms for cannabis use, a spokesman for…
May 29, 2017
Homing Pigeon Flies Ecstasy into Kuwait
One of those quirky stories on Fox News informed us this week that authorities in Kuwait intercepted a homing pigeon…
May 26, 2017
Martial Law Declared in South Philippines, Trump Praises Duterte’s Drug War
After threatening to do it for months, on Tuesday, the Philippines’ ultra-hardline President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law on the conflicted southern island of Mindanao.…
May 24, 2017
Has the Drug War Made Mexico the Second Most Dangerous Country on Earth?
Protests have been held in Mexico over the slaying of an award-winning journalist on May 15—the latest in a long line of…
May 23, 2017
Florida Health Department: No Smokeable Marijuana
Florida is rapidly shaping up as a test case in whether the term “medical marijuana” necessarily includes actual…
May 22, 2017
Brazil, Bolivia Launch Joint Anti-Narco Operation
Bolivia and Brazil have agreed to a joint plan to fight criminal gangs that operate on their shared…
May 16, 2017
Oregon: Controversy Over Legal Cannabis Revenues
Oregon voted to legalize cannabis way back in November 2014, but promises of state coffers filled with canna-dollars…
May 11, 2017
Study: Cannabis Reverses Aging Processes in Brain
Here’s some counterintuitive news for those who have been hammered all their lives with claims that cannabis causes…
May 9, 2017
Reynosa Shoot-Outs: Death Throes of Gulf Cartel?
Mexico’s northeastern border state of Tamaulipas—just across from Texas’ Gulf Coast—has, for years, been engulfed in an under-reported…
May 9, 2017