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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton doesn't want any pot leaves in the Lone Star State.

HHS Issues Rule to Ease Methadone Access, Texas AG Sues Pot Reform Cities, More... (2/1/24)

Rhode Island's first safe injection site is likely to be open by this summer, the FDA renews its warning on "gas station heroin," and more.

Street scene in Portland, Oregon, where officials have declared a drug emergency. (Creative Commons)

Portland Drug Emergency Declared, WA Home Grow Bill Advances, More... (1/31/24)

Marijuana legalization bills get filed in Hawaii and Kentucky, a Czech economic council calls for a legal, regulated market in marijuana, and more.

Evo Morales. He's back and wants to run for president again. (Creative Commons)

A Dozen Senators Call for Descheduling Marijuana, Bolivia Coca Grower Blockades, More... (1/30/24)

Mandatory minimum sentencing remains in fashion in Boise, an Arkansas medical marijuana expansion initiative has been rejected by the state attorney general, and more.

Eights tons of cocaine seized by Dutch authorities. Amsterdam's mayor says legalize it. (Netherlands Public Prosecutor)

VA Legal Marijuana Sales Bill Advances, UK's First Drug Checking Service Opens, More... (1/26/24)

A pair of congressional Democrats file a bill to allow marijuana use in public housing, the mayor of Amsterdam calls for legal cocaine use and sales, and more.

There is a better way to grow marijuana. Ask Rebel Farm. (rebelfarm.org)

East Coast Sees First Certified Regenerative Organic Marijuana Operation [FEATURE]

A movement toward sustainable, regenerative, organic cannabis cultivation that began on the West Coast is now on the East Coast.

Oregon Democrats want to go back to arresting drug users. (Creative Commons)

OR Dems Unveil Proposal to Recriminalize Drug Possession, NY Home Grow Rules, More... (1/24/24)

Ireland's first safe injection site will open in September, New York regulators release draft rules for adult use home grows, and more.

Tiantepine or "gas station heroin" marketed as "Zaza"

US Sending Lethal Aid to Ecuador to Fight Drug Gangs, House Members Target "Gas Station Heroin," More... (1/22/24)

The Justice Department seeks to throw out a challenge to federal marijuana prohibition, MexicO wants to know where military grade weaponry reaching drug cartels is coming from, and more.

A West Virginia bill would turn current misdemeanor drug charges into felonies. (Creative Commons)

WV Bill Refelonizes Drug Possession, OR Measure 110 Audit Released, More... (1/22/24)

Wisconsin Republicans are at an impasse over medical marijuana, a Hawaii civil asset forfeiture reform bill gets filed, and more.

The feds arrested roughly 20,000 people on drug charges in FY 2021, the Justice Department reports. (dea.gov)

WV Marijuana Legalization Bill Filed, CO Asset Forfeiture Reform Bill Filed, More... (1/18/24)

A bill to broadly legalize drug test strips advances in West Virginia, DOJ releases FY 2021 arrest and imprisonment stats, and more.

Los Choneros leader Jose Adolfo Macias Villamar, known as "Fito," being transferred between prisons in 2023. (FFAAE)

NJ & WA See Home Grow Bills Filed, Ecuador State of Emergency Over Cartels, More... (1/11/24)

The US is set to send assistance ot Ecuador as it battles rampaging drug gangs, a medical marijuana expansion bill gets filed in Delaware, and more.

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