Two years after launching the war on drugs, President Richard Nixon made a startling admission during a meeting in the Oval Office. He said that marijuana was “not particularly dangerous.” The remarks, captured by the former president’s secret recording system, bolster the notion that the criminalization of marijuana was driven by politics. Ernesto Londoño, a New York Times reporter who covers drug use […]...

Hundreds of padlocked pot shops found guilty of breaking the law in the Big Apple have avoided paying millions of dollars in fines, a City Council analysis shows.

President Richard Nixon’s remarks were captured on his secret White House recording system but had eluded the notice of leading Nixon era historians until now.

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to notify an unsuspecting woman that she’s been consuming medicinal cannabis.

Kamala Harris has backed away from some progressive positions she took in the 2020 primaries. Donald Trump has changed his stripes on a host of issues big and small, sometimes repeatedly.

Research finds cannabis use increases among college-educated and high-income Americans A new study found that cannabis use in the US has been increasing … but not among teenagers. The research, which looked at data on more than 500,000 people’s cannabis habits during different time periods from 2013 to 2022 and was published in this month’s edition of Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, also revealed […]...

Former President Donald Trump chuckled slightly at the notion of Congress doing shrooms to improve its performance when asked about his thoughts on psychedelics.

Former President Donald Trump can make news 24/7 — and that includes on an otherwise sleepy Saturday on Labor Day weekend. While many readers were having breakfast, the Republican presidential nominee broke with Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Florida leaders, supporting the Adult Personal Use of Marijuana citizen initiative that would legalize recreational use as...

The state will decide on a constitutional amendment in November over whether to allow for adult use of pot Donald Trump has come out in support for a proposed constitutional amendment that would legalize recreational marijuana in Florida, the state where he resides. In a Truth Social post on Saturday, Trump said “personal amounts of marijuana will be legalized for adults” with Florida’s amendment 3 […]...

�Whether people like it or not, this will happen,” former President Donald J. Trump said on Saturday. Gov. Ron DeSantis opposes the measure.

Home Depot circulated a memo to staffers earlier this week indicating that "marijuana will be removed from all drug panels."...

National Crime Agency says overproduction of drug in countries where it has been legalised may be behind rise The amount of cannabis seized from smugglers carrying the drug in suitcases to UK airports has tripled in less than a year, according to officials. So far in 2024 about 15 tonnes of the drug has been uncovered at airports, compared with 5 tonnes throughout the whole of 2023, and 2 tonnes in 2022. […]...

The couple put little Sulamain Hawkins Jr. to sleep on the attic floor before going outside to smoke marijuana, Rochester police said.

Adolescents were more likely to have consumed alcohol or tried marijuana by age 15 if they had later bedtimes and slept fewer hours during the night during childhood and adolescence, according to a new study.

USC study finds cannabis can help manage withdrawal symptoms, as well as cravings and anxiety after withdrawal New research from the University of Southern California shows that cannabis might help some people stop or cut down on their opioid use. “We interviewed 30 people who were using opioids and cannabis and injecting drugs,” said Sid Ganesh, a PhD student at USC’s medical school and lead author of […]...