Attack of the global pot police
Raymond Yans is president of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the UN agency charged with monitoring the implementation of anti-drug treaties. It is therefore not surprising that Yans...
View ArticleThird-graders caught smoking pot in school bathroom
Three third-graders were caught smoking marijuana in the boys’ bathroom of their northern California elementary school last week in what the local police chief says marked the youngest pot bust...
View ArticleColorado celebrates 4/20 without threat of arrest
DENVER — Once the province of activists and stoners, the traditional pot holiday of April 20 has gone mainstream in the first state in the nation to legalize recreational marijuana....
View ArticleColorado’s pot boom leads to rash of cannabis oil explosions
DENVER — The opening months of Colorado’s first-in-the-nation recreational marijuana industry have seen a rise in fiery explosions and injuries as pot users try to make the drug’s intoxicating oil...
View ArticleFeds don’t want pot growers using irrigation water
SPOKANE, Wash. — The US Interior Department said Tuesday it doesn’t want federal irrigation water being used to grow marijuana in Washington, Colorado or anywhere else. But the practical effects of...
View ArticleMarijuana could soon be decriminalized in Jamaica
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s government on Thursday announced a major rethinking of its marijuana laws, including plans to partially decriminalize small amounts of pot and to allow possession for...
View ArticleNew York set to legalize medical marijuana
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York is set to become the 23rd state to legalize medical marijuana under an agreement announced by legislative leaders. Shortly after midnight Friday, Senate Majority Leader...
View ArticleColorado sells more than 10 tons of pot a month
Colorado is smoking pot by the ton, and visitors are, too. The state’s pot regulators issued what is believed to be the world’s first post-legalization market study for the weed...
View ArticleLiberals join the pot party — at last
With the usual fanfare and self-regard we have come to expect from the New York Times editorial board, the prestigious paper has changed its mind about pot. It now believes...
View ArticleSEC sniffing out pot companies for fraud
A massive marijuana probe is in the works — and this time the smoke is coming from Wall Street. The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating fresh allegations that a...
View ArticleCongress & the District of Cannabis
Of the three jurisdictions where voters approved marijuana legalization last week, Washington, DC, is the smallest but the most symbolically potent. The prospect of legal marijuana in the nation’s...
View ArticleAlaska is 3rd state to legalize recreational marijuana
JUNEAU, Alaska — Smoking, growing and possessing marijuana becomes legal in America’s wildest state Tuesday, thanks to a voter initiative aimed at clearing away 40 years of conflicting laws and...
View ArticleDARE’s accidental pro-pot stance was prescient
It seems appropriate that an organization called DARE would do something bold. That’s what seemed to happen last week, when Drug Abuse Resistance Education, the well-known anti-drug group — which has...
View ArticleNew Yorkers are smoking pot in public like it’s no big deal
The city is getting higher by the day — and we’re not talking about Manhattan skyscrapers. In the span of a few hours in broad daylight last week, The Post encountered six people smoking reefer on busy...
View ArticleMarijuana use in US has doubled since 2001
As attitudes and laws in the US have become more tolerant of marijuana, the proportion of adults using and abusing the substance at least doubled between 2001 and 2013, according to a new study....
View ArticleColorado running out of pot… just one week after legalization
Colorado is running out of newly legalized marijuana. “We are currently out of recreational cannabis,” proclaimed a sign on the door of The Clinic in Denver. “Sorry for the inconvenience.” Another...
View ArticlePot stocks may go up in smoke
The high times won’t last long for Wall Street’s pot brokers. The sudden US investor interest in marijuana-related stocks — some having soared as much as 1,700 percent in value in recent weeks — may be...
View ArticleObama: Pot’s a threat, but it’s Congress’ call
President Obama doesn’t want the United States to become a nation of potheads. Obama said marijuana is subject to “abuse” and a threat to the public health. “I stand by my belief based on the...
View ArticleMedical marijuana study should start within year: NY health commish
ALBANY — New York’s health commissioner told lawmakers on Monday that he expects the state trial of medical marijuana to be up and running within a year. Dr. Nirav Shah, testifying before a legislative...
View ArticleAttack of the global pot police
Raymond Yans is president of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the UN agency charged with monitoring the implementation of anti-drug treaties. It is therefore not surprising that Yans...
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