Busts

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is trying to convince Congressional forces to help him impose a crackdown on the medical marijuana industry. In a recent letter to Congress, Sessions tries to sell lawmakers on the idea of abandoning its support …

Yesterday, the famed Bill C-45 took another step forward in Canada’s Parliament by successfully completing its second reading in the debate process. This legislation, which will usher in a whole new era of cannabis reform for Canadians, passed with a …

Jessica Laycock spent this year’s 4/20 celebrating cannabis in one of America’s nine municipalities with recreational marijuana use legalization, but her day wasn’t all blunts in the sun like our friends at San Francisco’s Hippie Hill or Denver’s Civic Center Plaza. No, Laycock …

Despite increased awareness, America’s opioid epidemic has shown no sign of slowing down. But while communities all over the country struggle to deal with the dangers created by prescription painkillers and their cheaper cousin heroin, a new warning from the …

The man accused of firing the bullet that struck a 5-year-old boy in the head on his birthday on Monday was ordered held without bail in the Bronx on Wednesday as the child struggled to survive. The prosecutors said the …

A Texas man has been sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for selling marijuana, thanks to federal mandatory-minimum sentencing laws. David Lopez was arrested after attempting to hire a DEA informant and an undercover cop to transport marijuana …

Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health is the latest official to call on the Trudeau government to immediately decriminalize pot possession in Canada. Dr. Eileen de Villa has joined the nearly deafening chorus of people who feel that charging anyone with …

It seems the United States government will now be forced to adhere to more sensible policies when it comes to how it seizes the property of people convicted of drug-related crimes. On Monday, the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous …

DEA agents busted a Colorado grow-op that was legally growing marijuana under state law, but smuggling the weed to states where it is still illegal. Late last year, DEA agents, assisted by a local SWAT team, raided the property of Michael Stonehouse and seized around $5 million of marijuana which he was reportedly smuggling out of state. This March, Stonehouse and 15 others were arrested in connection with the smuggling operation.

The investigation began last August, when federal and local agents found makeshift marijuana greenhouses disguised as a tomato cultivation site.

While many advocates thought it would never happen, it seems that New Hampshire is on the verge of becoming the last of the New England states to decriminalize marijuana.

Earlier this week, the state House of Representatives put its seal of approval on a bill aimed at eliminating the criminal penalties associated with the possession of small amounts of marijuana.