From its coca-growing fiefdom in the country's southwest, Colombia's second-largest dissident FARC faction says peace talks with the government are stalled, and more.
Mexican soldiers out fighting the cartels. (Creative Commons)
A poll of polls finds strong support for marijuana legalization but less so than two years ago, South Dakota medical marijuana operators are complaining about delta-8 and delta-10 THC products, and more.
In the hash fields of Morocco in pre-legalization times. (Cannabis Culture)
New York state has now passed half a billion dollars in legal marijuana sales, a factional dispute within the Sinaloa Cartel is heating up and turning deadly, and more.
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, head of the Sinaloa Cartel. He is now in US custody, but his arrest is unlikely to dent the flow of dope north. (State Department)
Drug cartel clashes in southern Mexico are creating a refugee flow into Guatemala, an Oregon initiative that would require marijuana businesses to have "labor peace" agreements is poised to make the ballot, and more.
The Delaware state capitol. Lawmakers there have approved a bill to expedite adult-use marijuana sales and promote social equity applicants. (Creative Commons)
.50 caliber sniper rifles can take down a chopper, penetrate armor, and hit a target from a mile away. For $9,000 one can be yours. The Mexican cartels say "yes, please."
Libyan militiamen posing with seized drugs and prisoners. A clash with smugglers in the desert left three Brigade 444 members dead. (Brigade 444)
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) gets banned from a fifth Native American reservation over her cartel comments, 18 are dead in prohibition-related violence in the Mexican state of Zacatecas, and more.
Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema says drugs such as cocaine and Ecstasy should be regulated--not banned. (Creative Commons)