Sources: CNN
Slovenian voters approve the use of cannabis for medicinal and recreational use in adults. 2024-06-9
Police arrest five people for the deaths of six people found in the desert near El Mirage, California, United States, allegedly over an illegal marijuana trade. The victims were shot dead, with the bodies of four of them being burned. 2024-01-29
Thailand removes cannabis and hemp plants from its list of illegal narcotics, and will allow people to grow an unlimited number of these plants in farms and gardens for medicinal purposes as long as they inform the authorities. However, public consumption of these plants is discouraged by official authorities. 2022-06-9
Malta legalizes the personal use and limited cultivation of cannabis, becoming the first country in the European Union to do so. 2021-12-15
The Supreme Court of Mexico decriminalizes the recreational use of cannabis for adults. 2021-06-28
Following a campaign led by Georgian politician Zurab Japaridze, the Constitutional Court of Georgia legalizes cannabis for recreational use. Georgia is the first former Soviet Republic to fully legalize the drug, with it also being decriminalized in Russia, Ukraine and Estonia. 2018-07-30
Ten people are killed by the Philippine National Police within a week after Rodrigo Duterte took office as president and made statements encouraging the murder of illegal drug addicts. 2016-07-3
Canada's Minister of Health Jane Philpott says federal legislation to legalize marijuana will be introduced in spring of 2017. 2016-04-20
The Mexican Supreme Court, in a 4–1 decision, rules that people have the right to grow and distribute marijuana for their personal use. The decision challenges the country’s current substance abuse laws. "Fox News Latino" and "The New York Times" point out the ruling only covers the plaintiffs in one case, a group that wants to form a "Pot Club." A precedent will be established if the court approves five similar petitions. 2015-11-4
Osvaldo Rivera is the suspect jailed in Camden County, New Jersey for the stabbing to death of a 6-year-old boy and the attempted murder of the boy's 12-year-old sister. Authorities say he was high on PCP-laced marijuana. 2012-09-4